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W2064644008 abstract "The kinetic mechanism and the metabolic role of pyruvate phosphate dikinase from Entamoeba histolytica were investigated. The initial velocity patterns in double reciprocal plots were parallel for the phosphoenolpyruvate/AMP and phosphoenolpyruvate/pyrophosphate substrate pairs and intersecting for the AMP/pyrophosphate pair. This suggests a kinetic mechanism with two independent reactions. The rate of ATP synthesis at saturating and equimolar concentrations of phosphoenolpyruvate, AMP, and pyrophosphate was inhibited by phosphate, which is consistent with an ordered steady-state mechanism. Enzyme phosphorylation by [32Pi]pyrophosphate depends on the formation of a ternary complex between AMP, pyrophosphate, and pyruvate phosphate dikinase. In consequence, the reaction that involves the AMP/pyrophosphate pair follows a sequential steady-state mechanism. The product inhibition patterns of ATP and phosphate versus phosphoenolpyruvate were noncompetitive and uncompetitive, respectively, suggesting that these products were released in an ordered process (phosphate before ATP). The ordered release of phosphate and ATP and the noncompetitive inhibition patterns of pyruvate versus AMP and versus pyrophosphate also supported the sequential kinetic mechanism between AMP and pyrophosphate. Taken together, our data provide evidence for a uni uni bi bi pingpong mechanism for recombinant pyruvate phosphate dikinase from E. histolytica. The ΔG value for the reaction catalyzed by pyruvate phosphate dikinase (+2.7 kcal/mol) determined under near physiological conditions indicates that the synthesis of ATP is not thermodynamically favorable in trophozoites of E. histolytica. The kinetic mechanism and the metabolic role of pyruvate phosphate dikinase from Entamoeba histolytica were investigated. The initial velocity patterns in double reciprocal plots were parallel for the phosphoenolpyruvate/AMP and phosphoenolpyruvate/pyrophosphate substrate pairs and intersecting for the AMP/pyrophosphate pair. This suggests a kinetic mechanism with two independent reactions. The rate of ATP synthesis at saturating and equimolar concentrations of phosphoenolpyruvate, AMP, and pyrophosphate was inhibited by phosphate, which is consistent with an ordered steady-state mechanism. Enzyme phosphorylation by [32Pi]pyrophosphate depends on the formation of a ternary complex between AMP, pyrophosphate, and pyruvate phosphate dikinase. In consequence, the reaction that involves the AMP/pyrophosphate pair follows a sequential steady-state mechanism. The product inhibition patterns of ATP and phosphate versus phosphoenolpyruvate were noncompetitive and uncompetitive, respectively, suggesting that these products were released in an ordered process (phosphate before ATP). The ordered release of phosphate and ATP and the noncompetitive inhibition patterns of pyruvate versus AMP and versus pyrophosphate also supported the sequential kinetic mechanism between AMP and pyrophosphate. Taken together, our data provide evidence for a uni uni bi bi pingpong mechanism for recombinant pyruvate phosphate dikinase from E. histolytica. The ΔG value for the reaction catalyzed by pyruvate phosphate dikinase (+2.7 kcal/mol) determined under near physiological conditions indicates that the synthesis of ATP is not thermodynamically favorable in trophozoites of E. histolytica. Pyruvate phosphate dikinase (PPDK) 1The abbreviations used are: PPDK, pyruvate phosphate dikinase; PEP, phosphoenolpyruvate; PPi, pyrophosphate, Pi, inorganic phosphate; Pyr, pyruvate; rEhPPDK, recombinant pyruvate phosphate dikinase from Entamoeba histolytica; Ps, Propionibacterium shermanii; Cs, Clostridium symbiosum; TUU, tri uni uni ping-pong mechanism; UUBB, uni uni bi bi ping-pong mechanism. catalyzes the reversible conversion of AMP, phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) and pyrophosphate (PPi) to ATP, pyruvate (Pyr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi). The enzyme is found in bacteria such as Propionibacterium shermanii (1Evans H.J. Wood H.G. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1968; 61: 1448-1453Crossref PubMed Scopus (64) Google Scholar) and Clostridium symbiosum (2Reeves R.E. Menzies R.A. Hsu D.S. J. Biol. Chem. 1968; 243: 5486-5491Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar), in the mesophyll cells of C4 plants (3Hatch M.D. Slack C.R. Biochem. J. 1968; 106: 141-146Crossref PubMed Scopus (144) Google Scholar), in leaves and roots of C3 plants (4Moons A. Valcke R. Van Montagu M. Plant J. 1998; 15: 89-98Crossref PubMed Scopus (112) Google Scholar) and C3-C4 intermediate plants (5Agarie S. Motoshi K. Takatsuji H. Ueno O. Plant. Mol. Biol. 1997; 34: 363-369Crossref PubMed Scopus (33) Google Scholar), in the protists Entamoeba histolytica (6Reeves R. J. Biol. Chem. 1968; 243: 3202-3204Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar), Giardia lamblia (7Hrdý I. Mertens E. Nohýnková E. Exp. Parasitol. 1993; 76: 438-441Crossref PubMed Scopus (22) Google Scholar), trypanosomatids, and Euglena (8Bringaud F. Baltz D. Baltz T. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci .U. S. A. 1998; 95: 7963-7968Crossref PubMed Scopus (108) Google Scholar), and in a thermophilic actinomyces microorganism (9Eisaki N. Tatsumi H. Murakami S. Horiuchi T. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1999; 1431: 363-373Crossref PubMed Scopus (26) Google Scholar). The functional role of PPDK depends on the organism. For example, it is well established that PPDK is responsible for the synthesis of the primary CO2 acceptor (PEP) in the C4 cycle (10Edwards G. Nakamoto H. Burnell J. Hatch M. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 1985; 36: 255-286Crossref Google Scholar). PPDK also synthesizes PEP in P. shermanii, Acetobacter xylinum, Rhodospirillum rubrum, Microbispora rosea (9Eisaki N. Tatsumi H. Murakami S. Horiuchi T. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1999; 1431: 363-373Crossref PubMed Scopus (26) Google Scholar), and Rhizobium meliloti (11Østerås M. Driscoll B. Finan T. Microbiol. 1997; 143: 1639-1648Crossref PubMed Scopus (33) Google Scholar). However, in E. histolytica, G. lamblia, C3 plants, and trypanosomatids the role of PPDK has not been determined. In the reaction catalyzed by PPDK the transfer of the phosphoryl groups from PEP and PPi to AMP is mediated by a catalytic histidine (His) residue (12Herzberg O. Chen C. Kapadia G. McGuire M. Carroll L. Noh S. Dunaway-Mariano D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1996; 93: 2652-2657Crossref PubMed Scopus (130) Google Scholar). This residue rotates 45 Å from the PEP/Pyr domain to the AMP-ATP/PPi-Pi domain after its phosphorylation by PEP (12Herzberg O. Chen C. Kapadia G. McGuire M. Carroll L. Noh S. Dunaway-Mariano D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1996; 93: 2652-2657Crossref PubMed Scopus (130) Google Scholar) and is also phosphorylated by a phosphoryl group derived from PPi (13Thrall S.H. Mehl A.F. Carroll L.J. Dunaway-Mariano D. Biochemistry. 1993; 32: 1803-1809Crossref PubMed Scopus (20) Google Scholar). Enzymes that have functional and amino acid sequence similarities to PPDK, such as enzyme I of the bacterial PEP-sugar phosphotransferase system (14Ginsburg A. Peterkofsky A. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 2002; 397: 273-278Crossref PubMed Scopus (33) Google Scholar) and PEP synthase (12Herzberg O. Chen C. Kapadia G. McGuire M. Carroll L. Noh S. Dunaway-Mariano D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1996; 93: 2652-2657Crossref PubMed Scopus (130) Google Scholar), show the same mechanism of phosphoryl group transfer. Previous studies on PPDK from P. shermanii (PsPPDK) and C. symbiosum (CsPPDK) described two different kinetic mechanisms. The initial velocity patterns between PEP, AMP, and PPi determined for PsPPDK yielded sets of parallel lines in the double reciprocal plots (15Milner Y. Wood H.G. J. Biol. Chem. 1976; 251: 7920-7928Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar), indicating that each substrate participates in an individual partial reaction according to a non-classical tri uni uni ping pong mechanism (TUU) (Scheme 1). The term non-classical in this mechanism refers to a proposal of three physically and catalytically independent sites (15Milner Y. Wood H.G. J. Biol. Chem. 1976; 251: 7920-7928Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). On the other hand, the initial velocity patterns for the CsPPDK (16Wang H.C. Ciskanik L. Dunaway-Mariano D. von der Saal W. Villafranca J. Biochemistry. 1988; 27: 625-633Crossref PubMed Scopus (39) Google Scholar) and the PPDK from C4 plants (10Edwards G. Nakamoto H. Burnell J. Hatch M. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 1985; 36: 255-286Crossref Google Scholar), were intersecting for AMP/PPi, and parallel for PEP/AMP and PEP/PPi. This suggests two partial reactions in a non-classical uni uni bi bi ping pong mechanism (UUBB) (Scheme 2). This mechanism has been labeled as non-classical because the patterns of product inhibition (16Wang H.C. Ciskanik L. Dunaway-Mariano D. von der Saal W. Villafranca J. Biochemistry. 1988; 27: 625-633Crossref PubMed Scopus (39) Google Scholar) are consistent with a UUBB with two sites that are catalytically and physically independent, instead of only one site.Scheme 2Cleland diagram of the kinetic mechanism of CsPPDK and PPDK from C4 plants: non-classical uni uni bi bi ping pong. In both schemes: E, free enzyme; EP, phosphorylenzyme; EPP, pyrophosphorylenzyme.View Large Image Figure ViewerDownload Hi-res image Download (PPT) It is surprising that the same enzyme displays different kinetic mechanisms in different organisms. In this regard, the mechanism that best describes the kinetics of EhPPDK (Schemes 1 and 2) has not been established. Therefore the present study was carried out to determine the kinetic mechanism of rEhPPDK. In addition we determined the intracellular concentrations of the substrates and products of PPDK, in order to evaluate the metabolic role of PPDK in E. histolytica, because there is a lack of information on this relevant subject. rEhPPDK was overexpressed and purified from the Escherichia coli strain BL21DE3pLysS, as described in Ref. 17Saavedra-Lira E. Ramírez L. Pérez-Montfort R. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1998; 1382: 47-54Crossref PubMed Scopus (35) Google Scholar. A minor modification was the addition of one tablet of protease inhibitors (Complete Mini EDTA-free tablets from Roche Diagnostics) to 10 ml of bacterial extract at the beginning of the procedure. Initial Velocity Studies—The rate of the reaction catalyzed by PPDK was determined in the direction of pyruvate synthesis by coupling lactate dehydrogenase from rabbit muscle (13 units/ml, Roche Diagnostics) and following the consumption of NADH (0.2 mm) at 340 nm. The reaction was assayed at 25 °C in 50 mm imidazole buffer at pH 6.3 and in the presence of 10 mm MgCl2 (total) and 4.5 mm NH4Cl. The initial velocity studies were analyzed by non-linear regression (Micrococal Origin version 6) by fitting the data to the corresponding equations of steady-state ordered, ping-pong, and rapid equilibrium random bi bi mechanisms (Equations 1, 2, and 1, respectively). In Equations 1 and 2, v = initial velocity, Vmax = maximal velocity, [A] and [B], KA and KB are the concentration and Michaelis-Menten constants of substrates A and B, respectively, and Kia is the dissociation constant for substrate A.v=Vmax×[A][B]KiaKB+KAB+KBA+[A][B](Eq. 1) v=Vmax×[A][B][A][B]+KBA+KAB(Eq. 2) Product Inhibition Studies—Initial velocities of EhPPDK were determined in the absence and in the presence of the inhibitor product at various concentrations of one substrate and constant concentrations of the other two co-substrates. The reaction buffer contained 50 mm imidazole (pH 6.3), 7 mm free Mg2+ (added as MgCl2 and determined by using the computer program Chelator, Ref. 18Schoenmakers T.J. Visser G.J. Flik G. Theuvenet A.P. BioTechniques. 1992; 12 (876–879): 870-874PubMed Google Scholar) and 4.5 mm NH4Cl at 25 °C. With the exception of the experiments where Pyr was used as a product inhibitor, the reaction was coupled to the NADH lactate dehydrogenase system. When inhibition by Pyr was studied, the rate of ATP formation was measured by coupling the EhPPDK reaction to hexokinase from yeast (5 units/ml from Roche Diagnostics), and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides (5 units/ml from Roche Diagnostics). The reaction medium also contained 0.5 mm NADP+, 5 mm glucose, 8 mm MgCl2 (total), 0.1 mm PEP, 0.1 mm AMP, 50 mm imidazole (pH 6.3), and 4.5 mm NH4Cl. Data obtained from product inhibition studies were analyzed by both linear (double reciprocal plots) and non-linear regression (see equations below). The data were computer-fitted to equations for linear competitive inhibition, linear uncompetitive inhibition, and linear noncompetitive inhibition (Equations 3, 4, and 5, respectively). v=Vmax[A]KA×(1+[I]Kis)+[A](Eq. 3) v=Vmax[A]KA+[A]×(1+[I]Kji)(Eq. 4) v=Vmax[A]KA×(1+[I]Kis)+[A]×(1+[I]Kii)(Eq. 5) [I] is the inhibitor concentration; Kii is the inhibitor constant that affects the intercept (1/Vmax); Kis is the inhibitor constant that affects the slope (Km/Vmax); the other terms are the same as those defined for Equations 1 and 2. The experiments of inhibition by Pi were designed according to the kinetic equations for a UUBB ping-pong mechanism, assuming either a steady-state ordered mechanism (Equation 6), or a rapid equilibrium random mechanism (Equation 7) for the binding of AMP and PPi. These two equations were determined using the computer program REFERASS (19Varon R. García-Sevilla F. García-Moreno M. García-Canovas F. Peyro R. Duggleby R.G. Comput. Appl. Sci. 1997; 13: 159-167PubMed Google Scholar). At equimolar concentrations of the three substrates of the reaction (PEP, PPi, and AMP) and in presence of the product Pi (Q), but in the absence of the other two products (ATP and Pyr), the following Equations 8 and 9 are derived from Equations 6 and 7.v=VfVr([ABC]−[PQR]Keq)VrKiBKC[A]+VrKC [AB]+VrKB[AC]+VfKeqKiRKQ[P]+VfKeqKR[PQ]+VrKiBKCKiQ[AQ]+VfKeqKQ[PR]+VfKeqKP[QR]+VfKeqKQ[PR]+VrKA[BC]+VfKeqKiRKQKiC[CP]+VrKCKiQ[ABQ]+VfKeqKRKiA[APQ]+VfKeqKPKCB[BQR]+VrKAKiP[ACP]+VrKAKiR[BCR]+VfKeqKPKiB[BQR]+VrKCKiQKiiC[ABQC]+VfKeqKQKiC[CPR]+VfKeqKQKiCKiiQ[CPR]+VrKAKiRKiiC[BCQR]+Vr[ABC]+VfKeq[PQR]+VfKeqKiRKQKiA[AP](Eq. 6) v=VfVr([ABC]−[PQR]Keq)VrKiBKC[A]+VfKeqKiQKR[P]+VrKB [AC]+VrKC[AB]+VrKQ[BC]+VrKiBKCKiP[AP]+VfKeqKR[PQ]+VfKeqKP[QR]+VfKeqKQ[PR]+Vr[ABC]+VfKeq[PQR]+VrKAKiQ[BCQ]+VfKeqKPKiC[CQR]+VfKeqKPKiB[BQR]+VrKAKiR[BCR]+VrKAKiQKiiR[BCQR](Eq. 7) v=Vf[A]3coefa+coefa2[A]2+(1+Kc×[Q]KiQ×KiiC)×[A]3(Eq. 8) v=Vf×[A]3coefa×[A]+coefa2×[A]2+[A]3(Eq. 9) At saturating concentrations of the three substrates, Equations 8 and 9 simplify to Equations 10 and 11, respectively.Vmax=Vf1+KcKiQ×Kiic×[Q](Eq. 10) Vf=Vmax(Eq. 11) In Equations 6, 7 and 8, 9, and 10, 11: Vf is the maximal velocity for the synthesis of ATP; Vr is the maximal velocity for the synthesis of PEP; [A], [B], and [C] are the concentrations of substrates PEP, AMP, and PPi, respectively; [P], [Q], and [R] are the concentrations of products Pyr, Pi, and ATP, respectively; Keq is the equilibrium constant of the reaction; Ki is the dissociation constant of the substrate or the product that is indicated next as a subindex in capitals; K is the Michaelis-Menten constant of the product or substrate that is indicated. In Equations 8 and 9, A is the equimolar concentration of each substrate. For Equation 8, coefa = KiB KC +KiAKC[Q]KiQ and coefa2 = KB + KC + KA + KC[Q]/KiQ. For Equation 9, coefa = KiBKC and coefa2 = KA + KB + KC + KA [Q]/KiQ. The initial velocity in these experiments was determined at different concentrations of Pi and constant and saturating concentrations of AMP, PPi, and PEP (1 mm). Pyrophosphorylation of rEhPPDK with 32PPi—The reaction was started by the addition of rEhPPDK (0.4 mg of protein, equivalent to 1.04 nmol) to 500 μl of medium containing 50 mm imidazole (pH 6.3), 10 mm MgCl2, 4.5 mm NH4Cl, 2 mm32PPi (∼14 μCi; Perkin Elmer), and the indicated substrates. The reaction was stopped after 0.5–1.5 s of incubation at room temperature by the addition of 10% trichloroacetic acid. Longer times of incubation (30–60 s) did not increase the 32Pi incorporation into PPDK. After centrifugation, the supernatant was removed; the precipitated protein was washed another five times with 10% trichloroacetic acid. It was finally resuspended in 1.5 ml of 10% SDS and mixed with 5.5 ml of water. The covalent incorporation of 32Pi into rEhPPDK was determined in a Beckman LS100C counter by measuring the Cerenkov radiation. Intracellular Content of Metabolites—Trophozoites of E. histolytica strain HM1 IMSS were grown axenically at 37 °C in TYI-S-33 medium supplemented with 10% adult bovine serum and 3% of a vitamin mixture. The cultured cells (∼1 × 108) were collected by centrifugation, resuspended in SHE buffer (250 mm sucrose, 100 mm Hepes pH 7, and 1 mm EGTA) and washed twice with the same buffer. The cells were then mixed with 3% (v/v) perchloric acid/20 mm EDTA and centrifuged at 800 × g for 2 min. The supernatant was recovered, neutralized, and conserved at –70 °C until use. The intracellular concentration of substrates and products of the reaction catalyzed by EhPPDK were determined by using standard enzymatic and colorimetric assays (20Bergmeyer H.U. 3rd Ed. Methods of Enzymatic Analysis. VI & VII. Editorial VCH, Germany1986: 118-501Google Scholar), except for AMP and PPi, in which rEhPPDK was used. Because the true substrates of PPDK, like PEP, PPi, and ATP, are complexes with Mg2+, the total concentration of this metal was also determined. E. histolytica trophozoites (1 × 107 cells/0.2 ml) were mixed with 1 ml of 70% nitric acid and 1 ml of 98% sulfuric acid and heated for 40 min. The magnesium content in the digested extracts was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry in a Varian apparatus. The intracellular volume used to calculate the metabolite concentration was 13 μl/107 cells. This corresponds to the volume reported for bovine alveolar macrophages, which are morphologically very similar to trophozoites from E. histolytica (21Scorneaux B. Shryock T.R. J. Vet. Pharmacol. Ther. 1999; 22: 6-12Crossref PubMed Scopus (12) Google Scholar). Determination of Keq and ΔG—The determination of ΔG for the reaction PEP + AMP + PPi [lrarr2] Pyr + ATP + Pi required the measurement of the equilibrium constant (Keq) at 37 °C and pH 6.3 (the assumed in vivo conditions for E. histolytica). The Keq of the reaction catalyzed by EhPPDK was estimated in these conditions from the concentration of Pi and ATP at equilibrium. The initial concentrations were 0.05 mm PEP, 0.05 mm AMP, and 0.035 mm PPi. rEhPPDK Purity and Stability—The densitometric analysis of the SDS-electrophoresis gel routinely showed purity greater than 90% for all rEhPPDK used in these experiments. The stability of the enzyme stored in imidazole buffer was increased by adding a commercially available mixture of protease inhibitors. Enzyme activity remained stable for at least 60 days at room temperature (data not shown). Kinetic Mechanism—Initial velocities of EhPPDK were determined at variable concentrations of one of the substrates with fixed variable concentrations of the second and a constant concentration of the third substrate. The kinetic patterns and the apparent Michaelis-Menten constants obtained by nonlinear regression analysis are summarized in Table I. The patterns for PEP and PPi (concentration of AMP constant) and PEP and AMP (concentration of PPi constant) were parallel, indicating a ping-pong kinetic mechanism for PEP versus PPi and AMP. The pattern for AMP and PPi (concentration of PEP constant) was intersecting (Fig. 1); the same pattern was obtained when AMP was the variable substrate, suggesting that these substrates have a sequential kinetic mechanism in which AMP or PPi binds first (ordered mechanism), or one in which either substrate binds first (random mechanism). This intersecting pattern (Fig. 1) suggested that the reaction catalyzed by EhPPDK involves a partial reaction in which a ternary AMP-EP-PPi complex is formed.Table IObserved kinetic patterns and apparent Michaelis constantsSubstrateObserved patternVariedVariable fixedFixedaConcentrations were PEP, 0.6 mm; PPi, 1 mm; AMP, 0.6 mm.rEhPPDKbThis work.Km appcKm app, mean ± S.D. of four different enzyme preparations for rEhPPDK. rEhPPDKCsPPDKdRef. 15.PsPPDKeRef. 1.mmPEPAMPPPiparallel0.024 ± 0.012parallelparallelPEPPPiAMPparallel0.032 ± 0.010parallelparallelAMPPEPPPiparallel0.004 ± 0.001parallelparallelAMPPPiPEPintersecting0.023 ± 0.011intersectingparallelPPiPEPAMPparallel0.062 ± 0.023parallelparallelPPiAMPPEPintersecting0.126 ± 0.031intersectingparallela Concentrations were PEP, 0.6 mm; PPi, 1 mm; AMP, 0.6 mm.b This work.c Km app, mean ± S.D. of four different enzyme preparations for rEhPPDK.d Ref. 15Milner Y. Wood H.G. J. Biol. Chem. 1976; 251: 7920-7928Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar.e Ref. 1Evans H.J. Wood H.G. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1968; 61: 1448-1453Crossref PubMed Scopus (64) Google Scholar. Open table in a new tab These patterns (Table I) corresponded to those predicted for a UUBB ping-pong kinetic mechanism. Identical double-reciprocal patterns were reported for the PPDK from C. symbiosum under similar conditions (16Wang H.C. Ciskanik L. Dunaway-Mariano D. von der Saal W. Villafranca J. Biochemistry. 1988; 27: 625-633Crossref PubMed Scopus (39) Google Scholar), whereas the AMP/PPi patterns were parallel for the enzyme from P. shermanii (15Milner Y. Wood H.G. J. Biol. Chem. 1976; 251: 7920-7928Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). This is the main difference between these two kinetic mechanisms (shown in Schemes 1 and 2). Product Inhibition Studies—The intersecting pattern of the AMP/PPi pair (Fig. 1) may result from three different sequential kinetic mechanisms: a random rapid-equilibrium, a steady-state ordered or a steady-state random mechanisms (22Segel I. Enzyme Kinetics. Behavior and Analysis of Rapid Equilibrium and Steady-State Enzyme Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York1975: 560-590Google Scholar). In an attempt to discern between the three of them, initial velocity data determined with different concentrations of Pi, were analyzed using Equations 10 and 11. Equation 10 predicts that in a UUBB ping-pong mechanism, with a steady-state ordered addition of AMP and PPi, the second product (Pi) will inhibit the enzyme activity. In contrast, Equation 11 predicts that in a UUBB ping-pong mechanism with a random rapid equilibrium for the reaction between AMP/PPi, the effect of Pi on the initial rate is negligible in the presence of saturating and equimolar concentrations of the three substrates. The equation considering a steady-state random mechanism between these substrates was not derived because its analysis is exceedingly complex. Thus, based on Equations 10 and 11, the hyperbolic decay in the plot of apparent maximal velocity versus Pi concentration (Fig. 2) suggested that the interaction of the enzyme with AMP and PPi could not be explained by a random rapid equilibrium mechanism. To distinguish between steady-state random and ordered mechanisms other product inhibition patterns were examined. These were determined by measuring the initial velocity catalyzed by PPDK as a function of a variable substrate, in the direction of ATP synthesis. The results from these experiments are summarized in Table II. The product inhibition patterns for Pi versus AMP and PPi, and ATP versus PPi and AMP, were noncompetitive (Table II), indicating that Pi and ATP, and PPi and AMP bind to different enzyme forms and indicating that substrates and products were reversibly interconnected. This may occur in the pyrophosphorylated form of the enzyme (EPP), because the AMP/PPi and ATP/Pi pairs participate in the same reversible partial reaction. The noncompetitive inhibition exerted by ATP against AMP (Table II) also supported a reversible conversion between these two ligands.Table IIProduct inhibition patterns for rEhPPDKProduct inhibitorVaried substrateCosubstratesObserved patternKisKiimmmmmmPiPEPPPi, AMP (0.1)UaU, uncompetitive inhibition.-7.2 ± 0.8 (3)bThe number of experiments is shown in parentheses.PiAMPPPi (1), PEP(0.6)NCcNC, noncompetitive inhibition.44 ± 888 ± 15 (3)PiPPiPEP, AMP (0.6)NC23 ± 846 ± 15 (3)ATPPEPPPi, AMP (0.1)NC0.14 ± .0117 ± 8 (2)ATPAMPPEP, PPi (0.1)NC-0.45 (2)ATPPPiPEP, AMP (0.1)NC5.1 ± 115 ± 3 (3)PyrAMPPEP, PPi (0.1)NC-22.6 (2)PyrPPiPEP, AMP (0.1)NC2.3 ± 0.50.4 ± 0.1 (3)a U, uncompetitive inhibition.b The number of experiments is shown in parentheses.c NC, noncompetitive inhibition. Open table in a new tab The release order for ATP and Pi was determined from their product inhibition patterns against PEP. The kinetic prediction for an ordered mechanism between these two products is that the last product released should act as a competitive inhibitor against PEP, whereas the first released product is an uncompetitive inhibitor. For a random mechanism, the prediction is noncompetitive inhibition by both products. The inhibition patterns (Table II) showed that ATP and Pi were released in an ordered sequence, although in a non-classical manner, since the observed inhibition patterns did not strictly correspond to those expected. The uncompetitive inhibition of Pi against PEP indicated that these ligands bind to different enzyme forms and that Pi was released before ATP. However the noncompetitive inhibition of ATP versus PEP did not fit the predicted pattern for the last released product. Alternative explanations for this noncompetitive inhibition are the formation of dead-end complexes, the existence of an iso mechanism (23Northrop D.B. Rebholz K.L. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 1997; 342: 317-321Crossref PubMed Scopus (12) Google Scholar), or the existence of a non-classical UUBB ping-pong mechanism (15Milner Y. Wood H.G. J. Biol. Chem. 1976; 251: 7920-7928Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar, 16Wang H.C. Ciskanik L. Dunaway-Mariano D. von der Saal W. Villafranca J. Biochemistry. 1988; 27: 625-633Crossref PubMed Scopus (39) Google Scholar). Evidence for the presence of dead-end complexes with ATP came from noncompetitive inhibition by GMP with respect to AMP (data not shown). The data suggested that GMP and AMP bind to the same enzyme form (EP), but that GMP interacts with another form, possibly the free enzyme, leading to a deadend complex. This finding agrees with the noncompetitive pattern observed for ATP versus PEP and with the existence of dead-end complexes. Another explanation for the noncompetitive inhibition of ATP versus PEP is an iso mechanism; this involves a rate-limiting step associated with isomerization of the free enzyme in the catalytic cycle. In this mechanism, the free enzyme that binds the first substrate is conformationally different from the free enzyme form that binds the last product released. Thus, the inhibition pattern between the first substrate and the last product is noncompetitive, instead of competitive (23Northrop D.B. Rebholz K.L. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 1997; 342: 317-321Crossref PubMed Scopus (12) Google Scholar). PPDK exhibits two-site catalysis with two independent active sites separated by 45 Å. To complete a catalytic cycle the enzyme undergoes a transition between two different conformations, which have been identified by x-ray crystallography in the protein from C. symbiosum (12Herzberg O. Chen C. Kapadia G. McGuire M. Carroll L. Noh S. Dunaway-Mariano D. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1996; 93: 2652-2657Crossref PubMed Scopus (130) Google Scholar, 24Herzberg O. Chen C.C. Liu S. Tempczyk A. Howard A. Wei M. Ye D. Dunaway-Mariano D. Biochemistry. 2002; 41: 780-787Crossref PubMed Scopus (35) Google Scholar). A full catalytic turnover involves a transition of conformer 1 to conformer 2 that brings the dissociation of the products AMP/PPi from their active site, preparing the enzyme for catalysis at the PEP/Pyr active site (25Wei M. Li Z. Ye D. Herzberg O. Dunaway-Mariano D. J. Biol. Chem. 2000; 275: 41156-41165Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (12) Google Scholar). The partial reaction involving PEP/Pyr in CsPPDK is slower than the partial reaction involving ATP/Pi. It has been proposed that the movement of the central domain between the C-terminal and N-terminal domains could be the rate-limiting step (26Xu Y. McGuire M. Dunaway-Mariano D. Martin B.M. Biochemistry. 1995; 34: 2195-2202Crossref PubMed Scopus (14) Google Scholar). The high level of sequence identity among PPDKs (50–60%) suggests a conserved structure and the same catalytic conformers for rEhPPDK. The putative presence of two different conformers for the free enzyme could explain the noncompetitive inhibition by ATP with respect to PEP. However, a simpler explanation for the noncompetitive inhibition of ATP versus PEP, which is supported by our data, is that EhPPDK catalysis occurs through a non-classical kinetic mechanism (two independent sites), like the one mentioned previously for CsPPDK. The binding order between AMP and PPi was determined from the Pyr inhibition patterns. Competitive inhibition by Pyr with respect to the first substrate and noncompetitive inhibition with respect to the second substrate is predicted for a classical UUBB kinetic mechanism. The noncompetitive inhibition by Pyr with respect to PPi suggested that this substrate binds after AMP. However, the inhibition pattern of Pyr with respect to AMP was also noncompetitive, suggesting that the kinetic mechanism between AMP and PPi could be random (because the Pyr inhibition with both substrates was of the same type). Alternatively, these inhibition patterns may correspond to and support the non-classical mechanism mentioned above. Thus, Pyr may bind to the binary complex EPAMP, and AMP to the PyrEP complex since both substrates bind to different sites (Scheme 3). There are experimental data of Pyr inhibition against PPi at saturating concentrations of AMP and of the inhibition patterns predicted from the equation derived from Scheme 3 that support the formation of the PyrEPAMP dead end complex (data not shown). The patterns of Pyr inhibition versus AMP and PPi were not reported for CsPPDK, but they were determined for PsPPDK (15Milner Y. Wood H.G. J. Biol. Chem. 1976; 251: 7920-7928Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). This last enzyme exhibited noncompetitive inhibition for Pyr versus both AMP and PPi. Pyrophosphorylation of rEhPPDK with 32PPi—It was found that 21 ± 3% of rEhPPDK bound 32Pi covalently in the presence of 32PPi + PEP + AMP in the reaction mixture and 5.7 ± 0.7% with either 32PPi, 32PPi + AMP or 32PPi + PEP (Table III). The higher incorporation of 32Pi into the enzyme in the presence of 32PPi + PEP + AMP, compared with 32PPi + PEP (Table III), suggests that the phosphorylated enzyme produced in the first partial reaction (PEP → pyruvate) does not catalyze the second phosphorylation from 32PPi in the absence of AMP. This finding suggested that the ternary complex EP-AMP-PPi was essential for the pyrophosphorylation of rEhPPDK. The pyrophosphorylated PPDK form was originally identified by following the time course of catalysis of CsPPDK with [γ-32P]ATP, in which the steady-state E-PP concentration diminished by increasing the Pi concentration, which is the first phosphate acceptor in the kinetic mechanism for the PEP synthesis (13Thrall S.H. Mehl A.F. Carroll L.J. Dunaway-Mariano D. Biochemistry. 1993; 32: 1803-1809Crossref PubMed Scopus (20) Google Scholar).Table IIIIncorporation of 32Pi (from PPi) into rEhPPDKAssay componentsnmol 32Pi/nmol rEhPPDKPercentage of 32Pi incorporated into rEhPPDK32PPi (2 mm)0.077 ± 0.0207.4 ± 2.0 (3)aThe number of experiments is shown in parentheses.32PPi (2 mm) + AMP (0.6 mm)0.048 ± 0.0155.2 ± 1.2 (3)32PPi (2 mm) + PEP (0.6 mm)0.067 ± 0.0126.2 ± 0.5 (3)32PPi (2 mm) + PEP (0.6 mm) + AMP (0.6 mm)0.211 ± 0.03221.0 ± 3.1 (11)a The number of experiments is shown in parentheses. Open table in a new tab Although these results did not establish the binding order between AMP and PPi, they indicated that the second partial reaction was sequential and corresponded to a UUBB pingpong mechanism (supporting the data reported in Table I and Fig. 1) instead of a TUU mechanism. The incorporation of 32Pi into the enzyme in the absence of PEP was unexpected (Table III), because, in all mechanisms, PEP is the first substrate that binds to PPDK producing the phosphorylated form (EP), which in turn reacts with either AMP or PPi. However, this incorporation could be caused by the high concentration of 32PPi used (2 mm). This finding complicates the kinetic mechanism proposed for rEhPPDK because it suggests that the free enzyme may also bind PPi as the first phosphate group donor. It has been reported that with 1 mm of each of the three substrates, 10 mm MgCl2 and after 70 min of reaction in presence of EhPPDK at 25 °C, ADP is generated in addition to Pi, pyruvate and ATP at a concentration 10 times lower than that of ATP (6Reeves R. J. Biol. Chem. 1968; 243: 3202-3204Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). ADP could be synthesized by phosphorylation of EhPPDK in an incomplete catalytic cycle, requiring only one phosphate donor, perhaps PPi, in addition to AMP. This observation supports the notion that PPi binds to the free enzyme, as shown here. However, in order to simplify the kinetic scheme of EhPPDK (Scheme 3) the PPi-enzyme complex and other dead end complexes were disregarded. Metabolic Role: Substrate and Product Concentrations—The concentrations of metabolites involved in the PPDK reaction were determined in extracts of E. histolytica (Table IV). Using these values we estimated the mass action constant (KMA) of 12.7 in Equation 12.KMA=[Pyr][Pi][ATP][PEP][PPi][AMP](Eq. 12) Table IVConcentrations of metabolites related to the reaction catalyzed by PPDKSubstratenmol/107 cellsmmPEP10.4 ± 4.0 (n = 3)an, number of experiments.0.8 ± 0.2AMP12.3 ± 5.2 (n = 6)0.95 ± 0.31PPi5.3 ± 1.4 (n = 6)0.41 ± 0.12Pyr5.8 ± 2.5 (n = 5)0.45 ± 0.11ATP13.7 ± 6.0 (n = 7)1.05 ± 0.41Pi108.7 ± 50.4 (n = 4)8.36 ± 3.22a n, number of experiments. Open table in a new tab The total concentration of Mg2+ was 9.6 ± 1.6 mm (125 ± 9 nmol/107 cells). This concentration is high enough to assume safely that Mg-PEP, Mg-PPi, and Mg-ATP (the true substrates) are formed. Our data of the concentrations of PEP, Pyr, and PPi were in the same order of magnitude of those reported by Reeves et al. (0.21 ± 0.09 mm and 0.38 ± 0.11 mm, 0.35 ± 0.09 mm, respectively, Ref. 27Reeves R.E. Warren L.G. Guthrie J.D. Arch. Invest. Med. 1974; 5: 331-336Google Scholar). Also, the concentration of ATP was in the same order of magnitude, but it was approximately two times higher than the value reported before, 1.05 ± 0.41 mm (Table IV) and 0.40 ± 0.08 mm (27Reeves R.E. Warren L.G. Guthrie J.D. Arch. Invest. Med. 1974; 5: 331-336Google Scholar). These differences may result from using different E. histolytica strains and/or different growth and incubation conditions. PPDK catalyzes PEP synthesis in C4 plants (10Edwards G. Nakamoto H. Burnell J. Hatch M. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 1985; 36: 255-286Crossref Google Scholar). It is localized in chloroplasts of mesophyll cells, which have a pH of 8 in the stroma, and where the reaction is coupled with pyrophosphatases and adenylate kinases (10Edwards G. Nakamoto H. Burnell J. Hatch M. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 1985; 36: 255-286Crossref Google Scholar). It has been estimated that, under physiological conditions, the reaction catalyzed by CsPPDK goes toward the synthesis of ATP (ΔG ≈ –1 kcal/mol, Ref. 28Mehl A. Xu Y. Dunaway-Mariano D. Biochemistry. 1994; 33: 1093-1102Crossref PubMed Scopus (23) Google Scholar). However, in that work the authors used the concentrations of the metabolites reported for E. coli and not those of C. symbiosum (28Mehl A. Xu Y. Dunaway-Mariano D. Biochemistry. 1994; 33: 1093-1102Crossref PubMed Scopus (23) Google Scholar, 29Kukko-Kalske E. Heinonen J. Int. J. Biochem. 1985; 17: 575-580Crossref PubMed Scopus (20) Google Scholar, 30Lowry O.H. Carter J. Ward J.B. Glaser L. J. Biol. Chem. 1971; 246: 6511-6521Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). A PEP synthesizing role has been proposed for PPDK in other organisms such as P. shermanii and M. rosea from the measurement of its activity in different growth media (1Evans H.J. Wood H.G. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1968; 61: 1448-1453Crossref PubMed Scopus (64) Google Scholar, 9Eisaki N. Tatsumi H. Murakami S. Horiuchi T. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1999; 1431: 363-373Crossref PubMed Scopus (26) Google Scholar). Other authors have suggested that PPDK catalyzes synthesis of ATP in parasite protists such as E. histolytica and Giardia intestinalis because of the lack of pyruvate kinase in these organisms. However, it is noted that recent works showed in G. intestinalis (31Park J.H. Schofield P.J. Edwards M.R. Exp. Parasitol. 1997; 87: 153-156Crossref PubMed Scopus (14) Google Scholar) and E. histolytica trophozoites (32Saavedra E. Olivos A. Encalada R. Moreno-Sánchez R. Exp. Parasitol. 2004; 106: 11-21Crossref PubMed Scopus (22) Google Scholar) have significant pyruvate kinase activity. Thus, it was judged relevant to evaluate the metabolic role of PPDK in E. histolytica under near physiological conditions. At pH 6.3, 37 °C and the initial concentrations of substrates and Mg2+ (which were in excess over those of the metabolites) described under “Experimental Procedures,” the reaction catalyzed by PPDK reached equilibrium after 40 min (data not shown). The equilibrium concentrations were 0.04 mm for Pi, and 0.015 mm for ATP and pyruvate. The equilibrium concentrations of AMP (0.035 mm), PEP (0.035 mm), and PPi (0.01 mm) were calculated by subtracting the concentration of ATP at equilibrium from the initial substrate concentrations. With these values, the equilibrium constant for the reaction was calculated (Keq = 0.73; ΔG° = + 0.19 kcal/mol). This value differed from that reported for the reaction catalyzed by CsPPDK (333 for the same reaction at 25 °C, 5 mm MgCl2 and pH 7, Ref. 28Mehl A. Xu Y. Dunaway-Mariano D. Biochemistry. 1994; 33: 1093-1102Crossref PubMed Scopus (23) Google Scholar). In both cases, the Keq was determined without considering the concentration of protons. This parameter could be important because it has been reported that the reaction catalyzed by EhPPDK requires 2 μmol of H+ for each μmol of ATP synthesized in the pH range of 6.5–8.4, and in the presence of 8.3 mm MgCl2 (a limiting concentration when compared with the metabolite concentrations we used), and presumably at room temperature (2Reeves R.E. Menzies R.A. Hsu D.S. J. Biol. Chem. 1968; 243: 5486-5491Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). Hence, proton consumption of the reaction at pH 6.3 (assay conditions) was measured following the fluorescence of pyranine. The value obtained was 1.7 ± 0.1 μmol of H+, which was in full agreement with that reported by Reeves (6Reeves R. J. Biol. Chem. 1968; 243: 3202-3204Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). However, proton consumption was not considered explicitly in the calculation of ΔG, since KMA and Keq were determined at pH 6.3, and the concentration of protons cancels in the equation for the determination of ΔG (+2.7 kcal/mol). Therefore, it seems that in the assumed physiological conditions for amoeba trophozoites the PPDK reaction is not to close to its thermodynamic equilibrium. In consequence, net ATP synthesis catalyzed by PPDK should be expected when substrates accumulate and products diminish under particular metabolic conditions of the trophozoites. The apparent lack of pyrophosphatases (34McLaughlin J. Lindmark D.G. Muller M. Arch. Invest. Med. 1978; 9: 141-148PubMed Google Scholar) together with an active vacuolar proton-transporting ATPase, which acidifies the intravacuolar milieu and that is involved in the phagocytosis of bacteria and erythrocytes (33Ghosh K.S. Samuelson J. Infect. Immun. 1997; 65: 4243-4249Crossref PubMed Google Scholar, 35Yi Y. Samuelson J. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 1994; 66: 165-169Crossref PubMed Scopus (11) Google Scholar), may fulfill the required conditions for driving the synthesis of ATP by EhPPDK. We thank Alfonso Olivos-García and Mario Nequiz-Avendaño for supplying trophozoites of E. histolytica HM1: IMSS, Nallely Cabrera for technical support, and Armando Gómez-Puyou for critical revision of the manuscript." @default.
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