Prasad, P. V. ; Appaji Rao, N. (1984) Interaction of Rose bengal with Mung bean Aspartate transcarbamylase Journal of Biosciences, 6 (5). pp. 613-624. ISSN 0250-5991
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Abstract
The fluorescein dye, rose bengal in the dark: (i) inhibited the activity of mung bean aspartate transcarbamylase (EC 2.1.3.2) in a non-competitive manner, when aspartate was the varied substrate; (ii) induced a lag in the time course of reaction and this hysteresis was abolished upon preincubation with carbamyl phosphate; and (iii) converted the multiple bands observed on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of enzyme into a single band. The binding of the dye to the enzyme induced a red shift in the visible spectrum of dye suggesting that it was probably interacting at a hydrophobic region in the enzyme. The dye, in the presence of light, inactivated the enzyme and the inactivation was not dependent on pH. All the effects of the dye could be reversed by UMP, an allosteric inhibitor of the enzyme. The loss of enzyme activity on photoinactivation and the partial protection afforded by Nphosphonoacetyl- L-aspartate, a transition state analog and carbamyl phosphate plus succinate, a competitive inhibitor for aspartate, as well as the reversal of the dye difference spectrum by N-phosphonoacetyl-L-aspartate suggested that in the mung bean aspartate transcarbamylase, unlike in the case of Escherichia coli enzyme, the active and allosteric sites may be located close to each other.
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Keywords: | Mung Bean; Aspartate Transcarbamylase; Interactions; Active Site; Rose Bengal; Allosteric |
ID Code: | 85214 |
Deposited On: | 01 Mar 2012 08:56 |
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