Showing papers by "William Dowhan published in 1987"
TL;DR: A null allele (pgsA30) of the pgsA gene is constructed thus rendering the organism incapable of synthesizing phosphatidylglycerol or cardiolipin, and strain SD12 appears to contain a suppressor which allows cells with a reduced capability to synthesize acidic phospholipid to grow, but cannot support growth in cells withA complete lack of synthetic capability.
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TL;DR: Results indicate that the reaction of E. coliPS synthase proceeds with retention of configuration at phosphorus, which suggests a two-step mechanism involving a phosphatidyl-enzyme intermediate, while the yeast PS synthase catalyzes the reaction with inversion of configuration, which suggest a single-displacement mechanism.
Abstract: The steric courses of the reactions catalyzed by phosphatidylserine (PS) synthase from Escherichia coli and yeast were elucidated by the following procedure. R/sub P/ and S/sub P/ isomers of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-(/sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)phosphoethanolamine ((/sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)DPPE) were synthesized and converted to (R/sub P/)- and (S/sub P/)-1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-(/sup 16/O, /sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)DPPA), respectively, by incubating with phospholipase D. Condensation of (/sup 16/O, /sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)DPPA with cytidine 5'-monophosphomorpholidate in pyridine gave the desired substrate for PS synthase, (/sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)cytidine 5'-diphospho-1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycerol ((/sup 17/O,/sup 18/O)CDP-DPG), as a mixture of several isotopic and configurational isomers. Incubation of (/sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)CDP-DPG), as a mixture of several isotopic and configurational isomers. Incubation of (/sup 17/O, /sup 18/O) CDP-DPG with a mixture of L-serine, PS synthase and PS decarboxylase gave (/sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)DPPE. The configuration and isotopic enrichments of the starting (/sup 17/O, /sup 18/O)DPPE and the product were analyzed by /sup 31/P NMR following trimethylsilylation of the DPPE. The results indicate that the reaction of E. coli PS synthase proceeds with retention of configuration at phosphorus, which suggests a two-step mechanism involving a phosphatidyl-enzyme intermediate, while the yeast PS synthase catalyzes the reaction with inversion of configuration, which suggests amore » single-displacement mechanism. Such results lend strong support to the ping-pong mechanism proposed for the E. coli enzyme and the sequential Bi-Bi mechanism proposed for the yeast enzyme, both based on previous isotopic exchange experiments.« less
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