• BMB Reports
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.118-123
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• 1995

Biodegradative threonine dehydratase was purified to homogeneity from Serratia marcescens ATCC 25419 by streptomycin sulfate treatment, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration chromatography followed by AMP-Sepharose 4B affinity chromatography. The molecular weight of the purified enzyme was 118,000 by fast protein liquid chromatography using superose 6-HR. The enzyme was determined to be a homotetrameric protein with subunit molecular weights of 30,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme was inhibited by ${\alpha}-Keto$ acids and their derivatives such as ${\alpha}-ketobutyrate$, pyruvate, glyoxlyate, and phosphoenol pyruvate, but not by ${\alpha}-aminobutyrate$ and ${\alpha}-hydroxybutyrate$. The inhibition of the enzyme by pyruvate and glyoxylate was observed in the presence of AMP. The inhibitory effect of glyoxylate was decreased at high enzyme concentration, whereas the inhibition by pyruvate was independent of the enzyme concentration. The kinetics of inhibition of the enzyme by pyruvate and glyoxylate revealed a noncompetitive and mixed-type inhibition by the two inhibitors with respect to L-threonine and AMP, respectively.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.45-50
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• 1974

1. L-cysteine을 pyruvate, sulfide 및 ammonia로 분해하는 반응을 촉매하는 효소인 cysteinedesulfhydrase의 촉매기능에 대해 연구해온 바 Aerobacter aerogenes로부터 유도생산한 cysteinedesulfhydrase를 사용하여 분해반응의 역반응에 의해 pyruvate, ammonia 및 sulfide로부터 cysteine의 유도체인 S-methyl-L-cysteine 및 S-ethyl-L-cysteine을 합성하였다. 2. 합성반응에 있어서 S-methyl-L-cysteine 및 S-ethyl-L-cysteine의 생성량은 반응시간과 효소량에 비예적인 관계를 나타내었고 반응의 최적 pH는 10.0이었다. 3. 효소적 합성법에 의해 생산된 S-methyl-L-cysteine 및 S-ethyl-L-cysteine을 반응액으로 부터 단리, 결정화해서 이들 합성산물에 대한 Ion exchange chromatogram, NMR spectrum, element analysis, molecular weight 및 melting point 측정 등의 분석시험을 행한 바 이들 화합물에 대한 이론치와 잘 일치되는 결과를 얻었다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2006

3-(2-thenoyl) 3-(p-NO2-phenylhydrazone) ethyl pyruvate(I), p-Br(II) 및 p-CH3(III)의 에탄올 용액의 전자흡수 스펙트럼을 조사하여 스펙트럼이 전자 전이에 해당하는 4개의 흡수띠로 구성되어 있음을 알았다. 이들 화합물의 pK 값을 분광광도법 및 pH 측정법으로 조사한 결과, 화합물(I)의 변색 범위는 페놀프탈레인과 유사한 8~10으로, 산-염기 지시약으로 사용될 수 있음을 알았다. 몇 가지 전이원소 (Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), Cd(II), UO2(II), La(III) 및 Zr(IV))와 이들 화합물과의 연속안정도상수를 pH 법으로 조사하여 본 결과, 모든 금속과 몰 비 1:1 및 1:2 (M: L)의 화학양론적 착물을 형성하며, 세 가지 유도체의 pK 값과 착물의 안정도 상수(log K)의 순서는 III > II > I 임을 알았다. 또한 전도도법 적정을 수행하여 이 적정이 금속이온과 리간드를 정량하는데 사용할 수 있음을 알았다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 1996

Modulation of the catabolic PEP-pathway of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens was tried using some enzymatic inhibitors such as gases and chemicals in order to enhance succinic acid production. 10$\%$ CO increased the succinic acid/acetic acid (S/A) ratio but inhibited growth as well as production of succinic and acetic acid. Hydrogen gas also increased the S/A ratio and inhibited the synthesis of pyruvate: ferredoxin oxidoreductase when used in mixture with $CO_2$, Catabolic repression by acetic, lactic and formic acid was not recognized and other modulators such as glyoxylate, pyruvate derivatives, arsenic salt, phosphate and sulfate were shown not to be effective. Magesium carbonate was shown effective for repressing acetate production. Palmitic acid, myristic acid and phenylalanine did not affect acetate production but carprylic acid completely inhibited growth.

• BMB Reports
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.13-17
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• 1997

The inhibitory effect of herbicides such as sulfonylurea derivatives, imidazolinones and pyrimidylsalicylate has been examined on the purified valine sensitive acetolactate synthase (ALS) from Serratia marcescens. The concentration of sulfometuron methyl which inhibits 50% of the ALS activity was 2.5 mM. The required concentrations of triasulfuron, primisulfuron methyl and imazaquin for the 50% inhibition of the ALS activity were 1 mM. The resistance of Serratia ALS to sulfometuron methyl, imazapyr and imazaquin is similar to that of E. coli ALS 1. However, pyrimidylsalicylate showed a potent inhibitory effect on the Serratia ALS almost 13 times more potent than on E. coli ALS II, which is known as herbicide-sensitive isozyme. The inhibitory mode was competitive against pyruvate. 150 value was determined to be $17{\mu}M$ in an assay mixture containing 20 mM pyruvate, and the $K_1$, value was calculated to be $0.4{\mu}m$ from the modified double reciprocal plot of 1/V versus $1/S^2$.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.304-312
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• 1997

Acetolactate Synthase(ALS)는 가지를 가진 아미노산 valine, leucine, isoleucine의 생합성 과정에서 공통적으로 작용하는 효소이다. ALS는 서로 구조적 유사성이 없는 최근에 개발된 sulfonylurea, imidazolinone, 그리고 trizolopyrimidine계 제초제들의 공통적인 작용표적이다. 완두로부터 분리한 ALS를 이용하여 새로 합성한 4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine 유도체들의 저해활성을 측정하였다. 가장 우수한 저해활성을 나타내는 유도체는 K11570으로 $IC_{50}$값이 0.2 ${\mu}M$이다. 완두의 ALS에 대한 K11570의 저해활성은 incubation 시간이 증가함에 따라 증가하였으며, 기질 pyruvate에 대해 혼합형 저해유형을 보여주었다. K11570와 sulfonylurea Ally, 그리고 feedback 저해제 leucine에 대한 dual inhibition 실험결과 이들 저해제의 결합부위가 최소한 부분적으로 겹치는 것으로 생각된다. Arg을 변형시킨 효소는 K11570, sulfonylurea Ally, 그리고 leucine의 저해 민감도의 변화가 관찰되었으나, Trp의 변형은 저해 민감도에 영향이 없었다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.471-476
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• 1995

Acetolactate synthase (ALS) catalyzes the first common step in the biosynthesis of valine, leucine, and isoleucine. ALS is the target enzyme for several classes of structually diverse herbicides. We have synthesized 4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine derivatives as ALS inhibitors, and their inhibitory activities on barley ALS were determined. $IC_{50}$ values for the derivatives are 0.2~200 ${\mu}m$. K11570, the most potent ALS inhibitor with $IC_{50}$ of 0.2 ${\mu}m$, showed mixed-type inhibition with respect to substrate pyruvate, and the progress curves for ALS inhibition by K11570 indicated that the amount of inhibition increased with time. Inhibition-competition experiments were carried out and indicated that three different classes of inhibitors, K11570, a sulfonylurea Ally, and leucine, bind to ALS in a mutually exclusive manner. Chemical modification of tryptophanyl and tyrosyl residues of ALS decreased the sensitivity of ALS to K11570, while cysteine modification did not affect the sensitivity. These results suggest that tryptophanyl and tyrosynyl residues are probably located at or near the inhibitor binding site.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.557-561
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• 1993

The interaction of vanadium(V) with various a-hydroxycarboxylate ligands in aqueous solution at pH 3.2 have been studied by $^{51}V$ and $^{13}C$ NMR spectroscopies. From the results it is supposed that vanadates mainly form the octahedral complexes with lactate, 2-hydroxybutyrate, glycerate, and malate. While, vanadates form the trigonal-bipyramidal complexes with glycolate, tartarate, and 2-hydroxy-3-methylbutyrate, and tetrahedral complexes with pyruvate(diol), 2-hydroxyisobutyrate, and 2-hydroxy-3-methylbutyrate. The bipyramidal products are formed as monomeric compounds. The octahedral products are formed as dimeric compounds with no evidence for a significant proportion of the monomeric derivatives. The complexes are mainly formed through the coordination at the carboxylate and the 2-hydroxyl groups of the ligands.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제43권11호
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• pp.964-973
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• 2020

Recent studies have highlighted that early enhancement of the glycolytic pathway is a mode of maintaining the proinflammatory status of immune cells. Thiamine, a wellknown co-activator of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, a gatekeeping enzyme, shifts energy utilization of glucose from glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation. Thus, we hypothesized that thiamine may modulate inflammation by alleviating metabolic shifts during immune cell activation. First, using allithiamine, which showed the most potent anti-inflammatory capacity among thiamine derivatives, we confirmed the inhibitory effects of allithiamine on the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced pro-inflammatory cytokine production and maturation process in dendritic cells. We applied the LPS-induced sepsis model to examine whether allithiamine has a protective role in hyper-inflammatory status. We observed that allithiamine attenuated tissue damage and organ dysfunction during endotoxemia, even when the treatment was given after the early cytokine release. We assessed the changes in glucose metabolites during LPS-induced dendritic cell activation and found that allithiamine significantly inhibited glucose-driven citrate accumulation. We then examined the clinical implication of regulating metabolites during sepsis by performing a tail bleeding assay upon allithiamine treatment, which expands its capacity to hamper the coagulation process. Finally, we confirmed that the role of allithiamine in metabolic regulation is critical in exerting anti-inflammatory action by demonstrating its inhibitory effect upon mitochondrial citrate transporter activity. In conclusion, thiamine could be used as an alternative approach for controlling the immune response in patients with sepsis.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.277-282
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• 1997

아라비돕시스 탈리아나의 아세토락테이트 합성 효소 (ALS)를 그 유전자를 포함하고 있는 대장균 MF 2000/pTATX로부터 부분 정제하였다. 부분 정제된 이 효소를 가지고 여러 가지 변형 화학물질들 즉, 요오드아세트산, 요오드아세타마이드, N-에틸말레이미드 (NEM), 5,5'-디티오비스(2-니트로벤조산) (DTNB), 파라염화수은벤조산 (PCMB), 그리고 페닐글리옥살 등에 대한 민감성을 조사하였다. PCMB가 가장 민감하게 저해를 했으며, DTNB와 NEM이 그 뒤를 따랐다. 이 효소의 기질인 피루브산이 요오드아세트산에 의한 활성 저해를 보호하지 못하였으므로 기질의 결합에 시스테인의 관련이 없는 것 같이 보인다. 한편, 기질이 페닐글리옥살에 의한 효소의 활성 저해를 부분적으로 보호하는 것으로 보아 기질이 아르기닌기와 상호 작용함을 암시하고 있다. 부분 정제된 효소는 발린과 이소루신에 민감하게 방해를 받았으나 루신은 그렇지 않았다. 그러나, PCMB로 변형시킨 효소는 되먹임 방해를 더 강하게 받았다. 그 외 ALS에 대한 새로운 제초제 후보인 피리미디설퍼 벤조산 유도체의 저해 효과를 검토하였다.