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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 48, Pages 46552-46558Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M208596200
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Human glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) exists in GLUD1 (housekeeping) and in GLUD2-specified (brain-specific) isoforms, which differ markedly in their basal activity and allosteric regulation. To determine the structural basis of these functional differences, we mutagenized the GLUD1 GDH at four residues that differ from those of the GLUD2 isoenzyme. Functional analyses revealed that substitution of Ser for Arg-443 (but not substitution of Thr for Ser-331, Leu for Met-370, or Leu for Met-415) virtually abolished basal activity and totally abrogated the activation of the enzyme by L-leucine (1-10 mm) in the absence of other effectors. However, when ADP (0.025-0.1 mm) was present in the reaction mixture, L-leucine (0.3-6.0 mm) activated the mutant enzyme up to >2,000%. The R443S mutant was much less sensitive to ADP (SC50 = 383.9 +/- 14.6 mum) than the GLUD1 GDH (SC50 = 31.7 +/- 4.2 mum; p < 0.001); however, at 1 mm ADP the V-max for the mutant (136.67 mumol min(-1) mg(-1)) was comparable with that of the GLUD1 GDH (152.95 mumol min(-1) mg(-1)). Varying the composition and the pH of the reaction buffer differentially affected the mutant and the wild-type GDH. Arg-443 lies in the antenna structure, in a helix that undergoes major conformational changes during catalysis and is involved in intersubunit communication. Its replacement by Ser is sufficient to impair both the catalytic and the allosteric function of human GDH..
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