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ArticleMolecular and cellular biochemistry2015

The fused anthranilate synthase from Streptomyces venezuelae functions as a monomer.

Meseret Ashenafi, Prasad T Reddy, James F Parsons, W Malcolm Byrnes

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Article in Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Meseret AshenafiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, 520 W Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20059, USA.
Prasad T Reddy
James F Parsons
W Malcolm Byrnes
Howard University · USInstitute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research

Funding

STRUCTURAL/FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AMINOGLYCOSIDEG12RR003048 · NCRR · HOWARD UNIVERSITY · PI SOUTHERLAND, WILLIAM M. · 1985 to 2011
$19.0M
PROTEOMICS CORE FACILITYG12MD007597 · NIMHD · HOWARD UNIVERSITY · PI SOUTHERLAND, WILLIAM M. · 2012 to 2018
$14.8M
Characterization and Engineering of Fused Chorismate-Utilizing EnzymesSC3GM083752 · NIGMS · HOWARD UNIVERSITY · PI BYRNES, WALTON MALCOLM · 2008 to 2011
$623k
NCRR NIH HHS 2G12RR003048-18NCRR NIH HHS G12 RR003048NIGMS NIH HHS SC3 GM083752NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007597
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, we showed that the fused chorismate-utilizing enzyme from the antibiotic-producing soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae is an anthranilate synthase (designated SvAS), not a 2-amino-2-deoxyisochorismate (ADIC) synthase, as was predicted based on its amino acid sequence similarity to the phenazine biosynthetic enzyme PhzE (an ADIC synthase). Here, we report the characterization of SvAS using steady-state kinetics, gel filtration chromatography, and laser light scattering. The recombinant His-tagged enzyme has Michaelis constants Km with respect to substrates chorismate and glutamine of 8.2 ± 0.2 μM and 0.84 ± 0.05 mM, respectively, and a catalytic rate constant k cat of 0.57 ± 0.02 s(-1) at 30 °C. Unlike most other anthranilate synthases, SvAS does not utilize ammonia as a substrate. The enzyme is competitively but non-cooperatively inhibited by tryptophan (K i = 11.1 ± 0.1 μM) and is active as a monomer. The finding that SvAS is a monomer jibes with the variety of association modes that have been observed for anthranilate synthases from different microorganisms, and it identifies the enzyme's minimal functional unit as a single TrpE-TrpG pair.

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CatalysisAmino Acid SequenceAnthranilate SynthaseKineticsProtein Structure, TertiaryStreptomycesSubstrate SpecificityTryptophanAnthranilate SynthaseTryptophan

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PMID25355158
PMCPMC4303589
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