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Inactivation of Brain Glutamate Dehydrogenase Isoproteins by MDL 29951

  • Lee, Eun-Young;Yoon, Hye-Young;Kim, Tae-Ue;Choi, Soo-Young;Won, Moo-Ho;Cho, Sung-Woo
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.268-273
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    • 2001
  • In addition to the recognition site for glutamate, the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-preferring glutamate receptor subtype shows a binding site for glycine. In this paper, we present the effects of 3-(4,6-dichloro-2-carboxymethylamino-5,7-dichloroquinoline-2-carboxylic acid (MDL 29951), a potent inhibitor of glycine binding to the NMDA receptor, on glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) from bovine brains. The incubation of GDH isoproteins from bovine brains with MDL 29951 resulted in a dose-dependent loss of enzyme activity Separately or together, 2-oxoglutarate and NADH did not give an efficient protection against the inhibition, indicating that GDH isoproteins saturated with NADH or 2-oxoglutarate are still open to attack by MDL 29951. MDL 29951 was an uncompetitive inhibitor with respect to both 2-oxoglutarate and NADH for GDH isoproteins. These results suggest that the binding site of MDL 29951 is not directly located at the catalytic site, and the inhibition of GDH isoproteins by MDL 29951 is probably due to a steric hindrance, or a conformational change altered upon the interaction of the enzyme with its inhibitor. The inhibitory effects of MDL 29951 on GDH isoproteins were significantly diminished in the presence of ADP. GDH I reacted more sensitively with ADP than GDH II on the inhibition by MDL 29951. Our results suggest a possibility that the two types of GDHs are differently regulated by MDL 29951, depending on the physiological concentrations of ADP.

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Analysis of Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme Inhibitory Activity of Oligosacchride Extracted from Capsosiphon fulvescens (매생이 유래 올리고당의 추출 분리 및 Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme 저해능 분석)

  • Kim, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Jung-Heon
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.131-136
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    • 2013
  • The hydrolysates prepared with various enzyme digestion of Capsosiphon fulvescens were used to measure the inhibitory effects against angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE). The commercially available enzymes such as Celluclast, Viscozyme, Lysing enzyme, Flavourzyme, Alcalase and Pectinex were used to digest C. fulvescens and produce hydrolysates. The maximum ACE inhibitory activity was observed using Alcalase hydrolysis (72.9%). The optimal conditions of Alcalase extraction were pH 8.0 and extraction time for 12 hr. The hydrolysates were fractionated using preparative-LC and anion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and the fraction B and B-2 were isolated. The ACE inhibitory activity of fraction B-2 by anion-exchange chromatography was 82.6%. The molecular weight of fraction B-2 estimated using size exclusion chromatography was about 1 kDa. The monosaccharide composition of the fraction B-2 was determined to be mannose (1.1%), glucuronic acid (1.3%), galactose (1.3%) and glucose (96.3%).

The Slow and Tight Binding of MR-387A to Aminopeptidase N

  • CHUNG, MYUNG-CHUL;HYO-KON CHUN;HO-JAE LEE;CHOONG-HWAN LEE;SU-IL KIM;YUNG-HEE KHO
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.250-254
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    • 1996
  • MR-387A [(2S, 3R)-2-hydroxy-3-amino-4-phenylbutanoyl-L-valyl-L-prolyl-(2, 4-trans)- L-4-hydroxy-proline] reversibly inhibits aminopeptidase N (BC 3.4.11.2) in a process that is remarkable for its unusual degree of time dependence. The time required to inactivate the enzyme by 50$%$ ($t_{1/2}$) for establishing steady-state levels of $EI^*$complex was approximately 5 minutes. This indicates that the inhibition is a slow-binding process. In dissociation experiments of $EI^*$ complex, enzymic activity was regained slowly in a quadratic equation, indicating that the inhibition of aminopeptidase N by MR-387A is tight-binding and reversible. Thus, the binding of MR-387A by aminopeptidase N is slow and tight, with $K_{i}$ (for initial collision complex, EI) and $K_i{^*}$ (for final tightened complex, $EI^*$) of $2.2\times10^{-8}$ M (from Lineweaver-Burk plot) and $4.4\times10^{-10}$ M (from rate constants), respectively. These data indicate that MR-387A and aminopeptidase N are bound approximately 200-fold more tightly in the final $EI^*$complex than in the initial collision EI complex.

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Purification and Characterization of High-Molecular-Weight $\beta$-Glucosidase from Trichoderma koningii (Trichoderma koningii가 생성하는 고분자량 $\beta$-glucosidase의 정제 및 특성)

  • 맹필재;정춘수;하영칠;홍순우
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.251-262
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    • 1986
  • High-molecular-weight ${\beta}-glucosidase$ (EC 3.2.1.21) was purified from the culture filtrate of Trichoderma koningii through a four-step procedure including chromatography on Bio-Gel P-150, DEAE-Sephadex A-50 and SP-Sephadex C-50; and chromatofocusing on Polybuffer exchanger PBE 94. The molecular weight of the enzyme was determined to be about 101,000 by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoreses, and the isoelectric point was estimated to be 4.96 by analytical isoelectric focusing. The temperature optimum for activity was about $55^{\circ}C$, and the pH optimumwas 3.5. The enzyme was considerably thermostable, for no loss of activity was observed when the enzyme was preincubated at $60^{\circ}C$ for 5h. Km values for cellobiose, gentiobiose, sophorose, salicin and $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ were 99.2, 14.7, 7.09, 3.15 and 0.70 mM, respectively, which indicates that the enzyme has much higher affinity towards $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ than towards the other substrates, especially cellobiose. Substrate inhibition by $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ and salicin was observed at the conecntrations exceeding 5mM. Gluconolactone was a powerful inhibitor against the action of the enzyme on $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside\;(K_i\;37.9\;{\mu}M)$, wherease glucose was much less effective ($K_i$ 1.95 mM). Inhibition was of the competitive type in each case. Transglucosylation activity was detected shen the readtion products formed from $p-nitrophenyl-{\betha}-D-glucoside$ by the enzyme were analysed using high-performance liquid chromatography.

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Purification and Some Properties of Arginine Deiminase in Euglena gracilis Z (Euglena gracilis Z로부터 Arginine Deiminase의 정제 및 그의 특성)

  • Park, Bong-Sun;Hirotani, Aiko;Nakano, Yoshihisa;Kitaoka, Shozaburo
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.115-125
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    • 1993
  • In Euglena gracilis arginine deiminase was located in the mitochondrial matrix. The highly purified enzyme required $Co^{2+}$ for the enzyme reaction with the $K_m$ value of 0.23 nM, and its optimum pH was 9.7 to 10.3. The molecular weight of the native enzyme protein was 87,000 by gel filtration, and SDS-acrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the enzyme consisted of two identical subunits with a molecular weight of 48,000. Euglena arginine deiminase was inhibited by sulfhydryl inhibitors, indicating that a sulfhydryl group is involved in the active center of the enzyme. It exhibited negative cooperativity in binding with arginine. $L-{\alpha}-amino-{\beta}-guanidino-propionate$, D-arginine, and L-homoarginine strongly inhibited the enzyme while ${\beta}-guanidinopro-pionate$, ${\gamma}-guanidinobutyrate$, and guanidinosuccinate did not. Considerable inhibition was also observed with citrulline and ornithine. We discuss the effects of the unique properties of the Euglena arginine deiminase on the regulation of arginine metabolism in this protozoon.

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Identification of Amino Acid Residues Involved in Xylanase Activity from Bacillus alcalophilus AX2000 by Chemical Modifiers (화학수식제에 의한 Bacillus alcalophilus AX2000 유래 Xylanase의 활성에 관여하는 아미노산 잔기의 확인)

  • Park Young-Seo
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2006
  • The purified xylanase from Bacillus alcalophilus AX2000 was modified with various chemical modifiers to determine amino acid residues in the active site of the enzyme. Treatment of the enzyme with group-specific reagents such as carbodiimide or N-bromosuccinimide resulted in complete loss of enzyme activity. These results suggested that these reagents reacted with glutamic acid or aspartic acid and tryptophan residues located at or near the active site. In each case, inactivation was performed by pseudo first-order kinetics. Inhibition of enzyme activity by carbodiimide and N-bromosuccinimide showed non-competitive and competitive inhibition type, respectively. Addition of xylan to the enzyme solution containing N-bromosuccinimide prevented the inactivation, indicating the presence of tryptophan at the substrate binding site. Analysis of kinetics for inactivation showed that the loss of enzyme activity was due to modification of two glutamic acid or aspartic acid residues and single tryptophan residue.

Identification of Amino Acid Residues Involved in Xylanase Activity from Bacillus Pumilus TX703 (Bacillus Pumilus TX703 유래 Xylanase의 활성에 관여하는 아미노산 잔기의 확인)

  • Park Young-Seo
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.15 no.4 s.71
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    • pp.633-640
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    • 2005
  • The purified xylanase from Bacillus pumilus TX703 was modified with various chemical modifiers to determine the active sites of the enzyme. Treatment of the enzyme with group-specific reagents such as carbodiimide or N-bromosuccinimide resulted in complete loss of enzyme activity. These results assumed that these reagents reacted with glutamic acid or aspartic acid and tryptophan residues located at or near the active site. In each case, inactivation was performed by pseudo first-order kinetics. Inhibition of enzyme activity by carbodiimide and W-bromosuccinimide showed non-competitive and competitive inhibition type, respectively. Addition of xylan to the enzyme solution containing N-bromosuccinimide prevented the inactivation, indicating the presence of tryptophan at the substrate binding site. Analysis of kinetics for inactivation showed that the loss of enzyme activity was due to modification of two glutamic acid or aspartic acid residues and single tryptophan residue.

Inhibitory Effects of Actinidia arguta on HIV-1 Reverse transcriptase, HIV-1 Protease and alpha-glucosidase in vitro and in silico (다래나무 추출물의 HIV-1 효소억제활성과 구조활성상관(QSAR)예측)

  • Yu, Young-Beob
    • The Korea Journal of Herbology
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2006
  • Objectives : For the purpose of developing new anti-HIV agents from natural sources, the extracts of Actinidia arguta were tested for their inhibitory effects on essential enzymes as the reverse transcriptase (RT), protease and ${\alpha}-\;glucosidase$. And we predicted inhibition activity of major compounds of Actinidia arguta using Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR). Methods : In this assay the activity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase is measured as the formation of a strand of copy-DNA (cDNA) using RNA as a template. The activity of HIV-1 protease is measured as the cleavage of an oligopeptide by HIV-1 protease. Results : In the anti-HIV-1 RT using Enzyme Linked Oligonucleotide Sorbent Assay (ELOSA) method, water extracts (100ug/ml) of stem and leaf showed strong activity of 93.9% and 91.9%, respectively. In the HIV-1 protease inhibition assay, aqueous stem extract inhibited the activity of the enzyme to cleave an oligopeptide, resembling one of the cleavage sites in the viral polyprotein which can only be processed by HIV-1 protease with 56.8%. In the ${\alpha}-glucosidase$ inhibition assay, aqueous stem extract showed activity of 73.1%. Conclusion : We found out this result, for these samples it is possible that the inhibition of the viral replication in vitro is due to the inhibition at least one of RT and ${\alpha}-glucosidase$. It would be of great interest to identify the compounds which are responsible for this inhibition, since all therapeutically useful agent up to date are RT, PR and ${\alpha}-glucosidase$ inhibitors.

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Analysis of an Immobilized β-Galactosidase Reactor with Competitive Product Inhibition Kinetics (경쟁적 저해를 갖는 고정화 β-galactosidase 반응기의 해석)

  • Kang, Byung Chul
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.1471-1476
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    • 2013
  • The present study deals with the immobilization of Kluyveromyces lactis ${\beta}$-galactosidase on a weak ionic exchange resin (Duolite A568) as polymer support. ${\beta}$-Galactosidase was immobilized using the adsorption method. A kinetic study of the immobilized enzyme was performed in a packed-bed reactor. The adsorption of the enzyme followed a typical Freundlich adsorption isotherm. The adsorption parameters of k and n were 14.6 and 1.74, respectively. The initial rates method was used to characterize the kinetic parameters of the free and immobilized enzymes. The Michaelis-Menten constant ($K_m$) for the immobilized enzyme (120 mM) was higher than it was for the free enzyme (79 mM). The effect of competitive inhibition kinetics was studied by changing the concentration of galactose in a recycling packed-bed reactor. The kinetic model with competitive inhibition by galactose was best fitted to the experimental results with $V_m$, $K_m$, and $K_I$ values of 46.3 $mmolmin^{-1}mg^{-1}$, 120 mM, and 24.4 mM, respectively. In a continuous packed-bed reactor, increasing the flow rate of the lactose solution decreased the conversion efficiency of lactose at different input lactose concentrations. Continuous operation of 11 days was conducted to investigate the stability of a long-term operation. The retained activity of the immobilized enzymes was 63% and the half-life of the immobilized enzyme was found to be 15 days.

A Study on the Remaining Concentration of Pesticides in Tap Water of Taejon City by Ellman′s Enzyme Method and the Countermeasure (Ellman 효소법에 의한 대전시 상수도내 살충제의 잔류농도 결정 및 그 대책에 관한 연구)

  • 이봉호;이영순;전종한
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 1999
  • The degree of pesticides accumulation in tap water in Taejon from June 1995 to Apr 1996 was measured by Ellman's coupled enzyme assay. Since organic phosphate and carbamate pesticides specifically inhibit the neurotransmitter modulating enzyme acetylcholinesterase(AChE), the enzyme activity can be used as a diagnosis for the pesticides accumulation in water and various samples. During the period of this study, the enzyme activity was changed almost every week. The lowest enzyme activity was 64 % of that of the control reaction and there are several days showing about 100 % enzyme activity. In general, the enzyme activity is higher in summer than other seasons especially early spring times. The pH value of tap water was very close to neutral(pH 7.0) and it seems that the enzyme activity was not affected by the small pH changes. Either boiling of tap water or addition of NaOH solution decomposed the pesticide components. These results show that AChE assay is a convenient, sensitive, and reliable method for detection of pesticides in water samples.

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