title: Selenophosphate synthetase. Enzyme properties and catalytic reaction.
abstract: Selenophosphate synthetase, the product of the selD gene, produces the biologically active selenium donor compound, monoselenophosphate, from ATP and selenide. Isolation of the enzyme and characterization of some of its physical and catalytic properties are described. Magnesium ion and a monovalent cation, K+, NH4+, or Rb+, are required for catalytic activity. Polyphosphates and other common nucleotide triphosphates do not replace ATP as substrate. The stoichiometry of the catalytic reaction (Reaction 1) was established using 31P NMR, anaerobic molecular sieve chromatography, and radiochemical labeling procedures. ATP+selenide+H2O-->selenophosphate+Pi+AMP. In the absence of selenide, ATP is converted completely to AMP and orthophosphate upon prolonged incubation with elevated levels of enzyme. AMP is a competitive inhibitor of ATP, Ki = 170 microM, whereas selenophosphate and orthophosphate are weak inhibitors indicating a multistep reaction. Attempts to obtain direct evidence for a postulated enzyme-pyrophosphate intermediate using several experimental approaches are described. No exchange of [14C]AMP with ATP could be detected after the enzyme was freed of traces of contaminating adenylate kinase by chromatography on phenyl-Sepharose.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Veres
authors.forename: I Y
authors.initials: IY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Scholz
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Stadtman
mesh_terms: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism; D002384:Catalysis; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D008670:Metals; D010770:Phosphotransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D012643:Selenium / Q000378:metabolism*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008670:Metals; D010770:Phosphotransferases; C062762:selenophosphate synthetase; D012643:Selenium