Site-directed mutagenesis studies of acetylglutamate synthase delineate the site for the arginine inhibitor |
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Authors: | Enea Sancho-Vaello Vicente Rubio |
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Affiliation: | Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV-CSIC) and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER-ISCIII), Jaime Roig 11, 46010 Valencia, Spain |
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Abstract: | N-acetyl-l-glutamate synthase (NAGS), the first enzyme of bacterial/plant arginine biosynthesis and an essential activator of the urea cycle in animals, is, respectively, arginine-inhibited and activated. Site-directed mutagenesis of recombinant Pseudomonas aeruginosa NAGS (PaNAGS) delineates the arginine site in the PaNAGS acetylglutamate kinase-like domain, and, by extension, in human NAGS. Key residues for glutamate binding are identified in the acetyltransferase domain. However, the acetylglutamate kinase-like domain may modulate glutamate binding, since one mutation affecting this domain increases the Km for glutamate. The effects on PaNAGS of two mutations found in human NAGS deficiency support the similarity of bacterial and human NAGSs despite their low sequence identity. |
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Keywords: | AAK, amino acid kinase GNAT, GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase NAG, N-acetyl- smallcaps" >l-glutamate NAGK, N-acetyl- smallcaps" >l-glutamate kinase NAGS, N-acetyl- smallcaps" >l-glutamate synthase Pa, Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ec, Escherichia coli Ng, Neisseria gonorrhoeae Hu, human |
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