title: Carbon-13 labelled biotin--a new probe for the study of enzyme catalyzed carboxylation and decarboxylation reactions.
abstract: [2'-13C]Biotin was incorporated into avidin (egg white), glutaconyl-CoA decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.70) from Acidaminococcus fermentans and the biotin carrier of transcarboxylase from Propionibacterium freudenreichii (EC 2.1.3.1). 13C-NMR measurements showed an upfield shift of the carbonyl carbon of 3.1 and 2.0 ppm for both enzymes, whereas binding to avidin induced no significant change of the chemical shift as compared to free biotin. The data indicate that the enzymes provide an electronic environment for the covalently bound biotin which favours carboxylation. In addition it was demonstrated by NMR-measurements that glutaconyl-CoA decarboxylase, from which the hydrophobic carboxy-lyase subunit (beta) was removed, could carboxylate free biotin.
authors: Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Marburg, Germany.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Bendrat
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Berger
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Buckel
authors: W A
authors: WA
authors: Etzel
authors: K H
authors: KH
authors: Röhm
mesh_terms: D001360:Avidin / Q000737:chemistry; D001710:Biotin / Q000737:chemistry*; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D002262:Carboxy-Lyases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D003653:Decarboxylation; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D014357:Trypsin / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D001360:Avidin; D001710:Biotin; D014357:Trypsin; D002262:Carboxy-Lyases; C023060:glutaconyl CoA decarboxylase