Article
Evidence for substrate stabilization in regulation of the degradation of Bacillus subtilis aspartate transcarbamylase in vivo.
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics - 10 Jan 1995
Hu P, Switzer R L
Abstract excerpt
Aspartate transcarbamylase (ATCase) is rapidly degraded in Bacillus subtilis cells that are starved for a carbon or nitrogen source or a required amino acid. The hypothesis that ATCase degradation may be regulated in vivo by protection of the enzyme by substrate binding was tested by studies of a mutant ATCase (Arg99 to Ala, R99A), which binds substrate so poorly that it fails to support pyrimidine-independent...
Topics
- Aspartate Carbamoyltransferase
- Aspartic Acid
- Bacillus subtilis
- Carbamyl Phosphate
- Circular Dichroism
- Enzyme Stability
- Guanidine
- Guanidines
- Hot Temperature
- Ligases
- Mutation
