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Michael A Sharkey1, Paul C Engel
1UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Abstract:
The gene for Escherichia coli glutamate dehydrogenase (EcGDH) has been overexpressed, and a simplified purification procedure afforded greatly increased yields of c. 40 mg pure EcGDH L(-1) culture. EcGDH was unstable at a low concentration in plastic tubes, but stabilization measures allowed a robust kinetic characterization. Contrary to past reports, EcGDH deviates from Michaelis-Menten kinetics, exhibiting apparent mild negative co-operativity with both l-glutamate and NADP+, with Hill coefficients of 0.90 and 0.92, respectively. NADPH yielded simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics but both 2-oxoglutarate and NH4+ showed substrate inhibition. pH optima were 9 for oxidative deamination and 8 for reductive amination.
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