title: Inactivation of bakers' yeast glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase by aluminum.
abstract: Preincubation of yeast glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) with Al(III) produced an inactive enzyme containing 1 mol of Al(III)/mol of enzyme subunit. None of the enzyme-bound Al(III) was dissociated by dialysis against 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.0, containing 0.2 mM EDTA at 4 degrees C for 24 h. Citrate, NADP+, EDTA, or NaF protected the enzyme against the Al(III) inactivation. The Al-(III)-inactivated enzyme, however, was completely reactivated only by citrate and NaF. The dissociation constant for the enzyme-aluminum complex was calculated to be 4 x 10(-6)M with NaF, a known reversible chelator for aluminum. Modification of histidine and lysine residues of the enzyme with diethyl pyrocarbonate and acetylsalicylic acid, respectively, inactivated the enzyme. However, the modified enzyme still bound 1 mol of Al(III)/mol of enzyme subunit. Circular dichroism studies showed that the binding of Al(III) to the enzyme induced a decrease in alpha-helix and beta-sheet and an increase in random coil. Therefore, it is suggested that inactivation of G6PD by Al(III) is due to the conformational change induced by Al(III) binding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-0840.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Joshi
mesh_terms: D000535:Aluminum / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001665:Binding Sites; D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D004793:Enzyme Reactivators; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D007700:Kinetics; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011487:Protein Conformation / Q000187:drug effects; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D002614:Chelating Agents; D004793:Enzyme Reactivators; D000535:Aluminum; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase