title: Arguments against a close relationship between non-phosphorylating and phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases.
abstract: Non-phosphorylating NADP-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) (EC 1.2.1.9) from spinach leaves was purified to homogeneity using an improved purification procedure. Thus, a major contaminant with molecular mass and ion-exchange properties similar to non-phosphorylating GAPDH was eliminated. Using this pure non-phosphorylating GAPDH, cofactor stereospecificity was determined by 1H NMR. Analysis of the NADPH formed from the hydride transfer from glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to [4-2H]NADP showed that the enzyme belongs to the A-stereospecific dehydrogenase family. This stereospecificity is the same as that described for the aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) superfamily and opposite to that of the phosphorylating GAPDH. Moreover, results from peptide sequencing analysis suggest a similarity in sequence between the non-phosphorylating GAPDH and ALDHs. Thus, the results taken all together strongly suggest that non-phosphorylating GAPDH belongs to the ALDH family and has no close relationship to the phosphorylating GAPDH class.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et de Génie Génétique, Université de Nancy I, URA CNRS 457, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Michels
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scagliarini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Della Seta
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carles
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Riva
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Trost
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Branlant
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005986:Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D010944:Plants / Q000201:enzymology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D005986:Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate; D009249:NADP; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases