Evaluation of the kinetic mechanism of Escherichia coli uridine diphosphate-N-acetylmuramate:L-alanine ligase

Biochemistry
J J EmanueleJ J Villafranca

Abstract

Initial velocity methods were used to probe the kinetic mechanism of Escherichia coli uridine diphosphate-N-acetylmuramate:L-alanine ligase (UNAM:L-Ala ligase). When the activity (in the forward direction) versus substrate concentration data were plotted in double-reciprocal form, all line patterns were intersecting. The best fit of these data was to the equation for an ordered mechanism with the following parameters: k(cat), 1000 +/- 100 min(-1); Kma, 210 +/- 40 microM; Kmb, 84 +/- 20 microM; Kmc, 70 +/- 15 microM; Kia, 180 +/- 50 microM; Kib, 68 +/- 24 microM. Initial velocity line patterns were also determined when the concentration of one substrate was varied at different fixed concentrations of a second substrate while the third substrate was held at a concentration more than 100 times its Km value. Reciprocal plots of data collected with either ATP or L-alanine present at more than 100 times their Km values resulted in intersecting line patterns. Data collected with UNAM present at 100 times its Km value gave a set of parallel lines. These data are consistent with UNAM binding as the second substrate in an ordered mechanism. ADP, uridine diphosphate-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine (UNAMA), and phosphate were tested as product ...Continue Reading

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