title: Chemistry of the inactivation of cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase by serine O-sulfate.
abstract: The reaction of serine O-sulfate with cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase [John, R.A., & Fasella, P. (1969) Biochemistry 8, 4477] has been reinvestigated. As in the corresponding reaction with beta-chloroalanine [Morino, Y., Osman, A.M., & Okamoto, M. (1974) J. Biol. Chem. 249, 6684], the enzyme is inactivated over a 10-min period, and the absorption maximum at pH 5.4 shifts from 430 to 336 nm. Upon prolonged standing the peak shifts again over a period of 20 h to 455 nm, a behavior entirely similar to that reported by Morino et al. for beta-chloroalanine in the presence of 3 M formate. When the pH of either the 10-min product (1a) or the 20-h product (1b) is raised to 11 or above, a yellow, diffusible compound (2) is released from the protein. This compound as well as its dephosphorylation and reduction products has been isolated and studied by NMR spectroscopy. Compound 2 is identical with a compound formed from serine sulfate and glutamate decarboxylase by a similar reaction sequence [Likos, J.J., Ueno, H., Feldhaus, R.W., & Metzler, D.E. (1982) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] and is the product of an aldol condensation of pyruvate with pyridoxal phosphate. When the 20-h product 1b is reduced with sodium borohydride and then heated in a boiling water bath, a material identical with the reduction product of 2 is released. We propose that the 20-h product 1b consists of 2 bound to the enzyme. Pathways for the formation of the various compounds are proposed. These findings require a reevaluation of the mechanisms of action of many enzyme-activated inhibitors of pyridoxal phosphate dependent enzymes.
mesh_terms: D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010766:Phosphorylation; D012694:Serine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D015091:beta-Alanine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D015091:beta-Alanine; C006977:3-chloroalanine; D012694:Serine; C036040:serine O-sulfate; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases