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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
卷 433, 期 1, 页码 193-211出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2004.08.033
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glutamate synthase; iron-sulfur centers; flavoprotein; amidotransferase; allosteric regulation; ammonia assimilation; ferredoxin; electron transfer; nitrogen metabolism; intramolecular tunnel
Glutamate synthase (GUS) is, with glutamine synthetase, the key enzyme of ammonia assimilation in bacteria, microorganisms and plants. GltS isoforms result from the assembly and co-evolution of conserved functional domains. They share a common mechanism of reductive glutamine-dependent glutamate synthesis from 2-oxoglutarate, which takes place within the alpha subunit (similar to150 kDa) of the NADPH-dependent bacterial enzyme and the corresponding polypeptides of other GltS forms, and involves: (i) an Ntn-type amidotransferase domain and (ii) a flavin mononucleotide-containing (beta/alpha)(8) barrel synthase domain connected by (iii) a similar to30 Angstrom-long intramolecular ammonia tunnel. The synthase domain harbors the [3Fe/4S](0,+1) cluster of the enzyme, which participates in the electron transfer process from the physiological reductant: reduced ferredoxin in the plant-type enzyme or NAD(P)H in the bacterial and the non-photosynthetic eukaryotic form. The NAD(P)H-dependent GltS requires a tightly bound flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent reductase (beta subunit, similar to50 kDa), also determining the presence of two low-potential [4Fe-4S](+1,+2) clusters. Structural, functional and computational data available on GUS and related enzymes show how the enzyme may control and coordinate the reactions taking place at the glutaminase and synthase sites by sensing substrate binding and cofactor redox state. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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