E. coli MEP Synthase: Steady-State Kinetic Analysis and Substrate Binding
- 7 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 41 (1) , 236-243
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi0118207
Abstract
2-C-Methyl-d-erythritol-4-phosphate synthase (MEP synthase) catalyzes the rearrangement/reduction of 1-d-deoxyxylulose-5-phosphate (DXP) to methylerythritol-4-phosphate (MEP) as the first pathway-specific reaction in the MEP biosynthetic pathway to isoprenoids. Recombinant E. coli MEP was purified by chromatography on DE-52 and phenyl-Sepharose, and its steady-state kinetic constants were determined: kcat = 116 ± 8 s-1, KMDXP = 115 ± 25 μM, and KMNADPH = 0.5 ± 0.2 μM. The rearrangement/reduction is reversible; Keq = 45 ± 6 for DXP and MEP at 150 μM NADPH. The mechanism for substrate binding was examined using fosmidomycin and dihydro-NADPH as dead-end inhibitors. Dihydro-NADPH gave a competitive pattern against NADPH and a noncompetitive pattern against DXP. Fosmidomycin was an uncompetitive inhibitor against NADPH and gave a pattern representative of slow, tight-binding competitive inhibition against DXP. These results are consistent with an ordered mechanism where NADPH binds before DXP.Keywords
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