Allosteric Transition and Substrate Binding Are Entropy-Driven in Glucosamine-6-Phosphate Deaminase from Escherichia coli

Author： Bustos-Jaimes I. Calcagno M.L.

Publisher： Elsevier

ISSN： 0003-9861

Source： Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol.394, Iss.2, 2001-10, pp. : 156-160

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Abstract

Glucosamine-6P-deaminase (EC 3.5.99.6, formerly glucosamine-6-phosphate isomerase, EC 5.3.1.10) from Escherichia coli is an attractive experimental model for the study of allosteric transitions because it is both kinetically and structurally well-known, and follows rapid equilibrium random kinetics, so that the kinetic K_m values are true thermodynamic equilibrium constants. The enzyme is a typical allosteric K-system activated by N-acetylglucosamine 6-P and displays an allosteric behavior that can be well described by the Monod–Wyman–Changeux model. This thermodynamic study based on the temperature dependence of allosteric parameters derived from this model shows that substrate binding and allosteric transition are both entropy-driven processes in E. coli GlcN6P deaminase. The analysis of this result in the light of the crystallographic structure of the enzyme implicates the active-site lid as the structural motif that could contribute significantly to this entropic component of the allosteric transition because of the remarkable change in its crystallographic B factors.