Studies on some specific Ap4A-degrading enzymes with the use of various methylene analogues of P1P4-bis-(5',5'-adenosyl) tetraphosphate. |
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| Authors: | A Guranowski E Starzyńska G E Taylor and G M Blackburn |
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| Institution: | Katedra Biochemii, Akademia Rolnicza, Poznań, Poland. |
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| Abstract: | Six new methylenephosphonate analogues of P1P4-bis-(5',5'-adenosyl) tetraphosphate, Ap4A, having P2-P3 carbon bridges CF2, CCl2 and CH2CH2 or P1-P2 and P3-P4 carbon bridges CF2, CCl2 and CH2CH2 in the tetraphosphate chain, were examined as substrates or inhibitors for two specific Ap4A-degrading enzymes: (asymmetrical) Ap4A hydrolase (EC 3.6.1.17) from yellow-lupin seeds and (symmetrical) Ap4A hydrolase (EC 3.6.1.41) from Escherichia coli. All analogues in which the central oxygen atom was replaced by a stable carbon bridge were hydrolysed by the asymmetrical hydrolase (CF2 greater than CCl2 greater than O greater than CHBr greater than CH2 greater than CH2CH2). As expected, these analogues were not hydrolysed by the symmetrical hydrolase, which was also unable to act on analogues having P1-P2 and P3-P4 carbon bridges. |
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