title: Construction of new forms of pyruvate carboxylase to assess the allosteric regulation by acetyl-CoA.
abstract: The single polypeptide chain of Bacillus thermodenitrificans pyruvate carboxylase (PC) is composed of the biotin carboxylase (BC), carboxyl transferase (CT) and biotin carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP) domains from the amino terminus. This polypeptide chain was divided into two between the CT and BCCP domains. The resulting proteins, PC-(BC + CT) and PC-(BCCP), were expressed in Escherichia coli separately, purified to homogeneity and characterized. PC-(BC + CT) was 4% as active as native PC in the carboxylation of pyruvate with PC-(BCCP) as substrate with a K(m) of 39 microM. Moreover, acetyl-CoA stimulated the carboxylation of PC-(BCCP) about 3-fold, whereas it was without effect in the corresponding reaction with free biotin. In addition to these engineered proteins, another form of enzyme was also constructed in which the BC domain of B.thermodenitrificans PC was replaced with the BC subunit of Aquifex aeolicus PC, whose activity is independent of acetyl-CoA. The resulting chimera was about 7% as active as native PC, but its activity was independent of acetyl-CoA. On the basis of these observations, the mechanism by which acetyl-CoA regulates the reaction of PC is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemical Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kawazu 680-4, Iizuka 820-8502, Japan.
authors.forename: M Nurul
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sueda
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism*; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000494:Allosteric Regulation; D001407:Bacillus / Q000201:enzymology; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D011766:Pyruvate Carboxylase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D011766:Pyruvate Carboxylase