Kinetic mechanism of a recombinant<i>Arabidopsis</i>glyoxylate reductase: studies of initial velocity, dead-end inhibition and product inhibition
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Abstract
Kinetic analysis of substrate specificity revealed that a recombinant Arabidopsis protein catalyzes the conversion of glyoxylate to glycolate (K m,glyoxylate = 4.5 μmol·L –1 ) and succinic semialdehyde (SSA) to γ-hydroxybutyrate (K m, SSA = 0.87 mmol·L –1 ) via an essentially irreversible, NADPH-based mechanism. In this report, the enzyme was further characterized via initial-velocity, dead-end inhibition and product inhibition studies. The kinetic mechanism was ordered Bi Bi, involving the complexation of NADPH to the enzyme before glyoxylate or SSA, and the release of NADP + before glycolate or γ-hydroxybutyrate, respectively. It can be concluded that the enzyme functions as a NADPH-dependent glyoxylate reductase (EC 1.1.1.79) or possibly an aldehyde reductase (EC 1.1.1.2), and the kinetic mechanism involved is consistent with that found in members of both the aldo-keto reductase and 3-hydroxyisobutyrate dehydrogenase-related superfamilies of enzymes. Since NADP + was an effective competitive inhibitor with respect to NADPH (K i = 1–3 µmol·L –1 ), it is proposed that the ratio of NADPH/NADP + regulates enzymatic activity in planta.
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