TY - JOUR
T1 - UMP pyrophosphorylase of Tetrahymena pyriformis. Partial purification and properties
AU - Plunkett, William
AU - Moner, J. G.
N1 - Funding Information:
i This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship 5 FOI GM 37986-03 and by National Science Foundation Grant GB 6233. ‘Present address: Department of Developmental Therapeutics, The University of Texas System Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas 77030.
PY - 1978/4/15
Y1 - 1978/4/15
N2 - UMP pyrophosphorylase (EC 2.4.2.9, UMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase) was purified approximately 85-fold from exponentially growing cells of Tetrahymena pyriformis GL-7. It was found to have a molecular weight of 36,000, and was active over a broad pH range, with an optimum at 7.5. The enzyme exhibited a temperature optimum at 40 °C, above which irreversible inactivation began to occur. The apparent Km values for uracil and phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) were 0.4 and 6.9 m, respectively. The pyrophosphorylase exhibited a pyrimidine base specificity for uracil, although 5-fluorouracil was utilized by the enzyme. Neither cytosine, orotic acid, nor 6-azauracil competed with uracil for the enzyme or inhibited the production of UMP from uracil and PRPP. Although most triphosphates had little effect on pyrophosphorylase activity, UTP and dUTP, each at a concentration of 1 mm, depressed UMP formation by 86 and 59%, respectively. Thus, UMP pyrophosphorylase may be sensitive to feedback inhibition by the product of the pathway it initiates. UMP pyrophosphorylase specific activity in extracts of Tetrahymena grown in a medium containing uracil as the sole pyrimidine source was threefold higher than that in extracts of cells grown on uridine or UMP.
AB - UMP pyrophosphorylase (EC 2.4.2.9, UMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase) was purified approximately 85-fold from exponentially growing cells of Tetrahymena pyriformis GL-7. It was found to have a molecular weight of 36,000, and was active over a broad pH range, with an optimum at 7.5. The enzyme exhibited a temperature optimum at 40 °C, above which irreversible inactivation began to occur. The apparent Km values for uracil and phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) were 0.4 and 6.9 m, respectively. The pyrophosphorylase exhibited a pyrimidine base specificity for uracil, although 5-fluorouracil was utilized by the enzyme. Neither cytosine, orotic acid, nor 6-azauracil competed with uracil for the enzyme or inhibited the production of UMP from uracil and PRPP. Although most triphosphates had little effect on pyrophosphorylase activity, UTP and dUTP, each at a concentration of 1 mm, depressed UMP formation by 86 and 59%, respectively. Thus, UMP pyrophosphorylase may be sensitive to feedback inhibition by the product of the pathway it initiates. UMP pyrophosphorylase specific activity in extracts of Tetrahymena grown in a medium containing uracil as the sole pyrimidine source was threefold higher than that in extracts of cells grown on uridine or UMP.
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U2 - 10.1016/0003-9861(78)90032-2
DO - 10.1016/0003-9861(78)90032-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 26316
AN - SCOPUS:0018268576
SN - 0003-9861
VL - 187
SP - 264
EP - 271
JO - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
JF - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
IS - 1
ER -