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Production and characterization of bifunctional enzymes. Substrate channeling in the aspartate pathway.

The direct channeling of an intermediate between enzymes that catalyze consecutive reactions in a pathway offers the possibility of an efficient, exclusive, and protected means of metabolite delivery. Aspartokinase-homoserine dehydrogenase I (AK-HDH I) from Escherichia coli is an unusual bifunctional enzyme in that it does not catalyze consecutive reactions. The potential channeling of the intermediate beta-aspartyl phosphate between the aspartokinase of this bifunctional enzyme and aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase ( ASADH), the enzyme that catalyzes the intervening reaction, has been examined. The introduction of increasing levels of inactivated ASADH has been shown to compete against enzyme-enzyme interactions and direct intermediate channeling, leading to a decrease in the overall reaction flux through these consecutive enzymes. These same results are obtained whether these experiments are conducted with aspartokinase III, a naturally occurring monofunctional isozyme, with an artificially produced monofunctional aspartokinase I, or with a fusion construct of AK I- ASADH. These results provide definitive evidence for the channeling of beta-aspartyl phosphate between aspartokinase and aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase in E. coli and suggest that ASADH may provide a bridge to channel the intermediates between the non-consecutive reactions of AK-HDH I.[1]

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