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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-2-22
pubmed:abstractText
The purification and properties of folylpolyglutamate synthetase from Corynebacterium sp, and some properties of partially purified enzyme from Lactobacillus casei, Streptococcus faecalis, Neurospora crassa, pig liver, and Chinese hamster ovary cells, are described. The Corynebacterium enzyme catalyzes a MgATP-dependent addition of glutamate to a variety of reduced pteroate and pteroylmono-, di-, and triglutamate substrates, with the concomitant production of MgADP and phosphate. Although glutamate moieties are added in a sequential fashion, the kinetic mechanism, which is Ordered Ter Ter, precludes the sequential addition of glutamate moieties to enzyme-bound folate. It is suggested that catalysis precedes via the formation of a pteroyl-gamma-glutamyl phosphate intermediate. The in vivo distribution of folylpolyglutamates in bacteria and mammalian cells, which differ from source to source, appear to be a reflection of the ability of folylpolyglutamates to act as substrates for folylpolyglutamate synthetases from different sources. Only one enzyme appears to be involved in the conversion of pteroylmonoglutamates to polyglutamate forms in both bacteria and mammalian cells. Bacterial folylpolyglutamate synthetases use a variety of pteroylmonoglutamates as their preferred monoglutamate substrate, but use 5,10-methylenetetrahydro-pteroylpolyglutamates as their preferred, and sometimes only, polyglutamate substrate. Mono- and polyglutamyl forms of tetrahydrofolate are the preferred substrates of mammalian folylpolyglutamate synthetases.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0300-8177
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
209-28
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Adenosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Amino Acids, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Chemical Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Chemistry, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Corynebacterium, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Cricetulus, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Enterococcus faecalis, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Female, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Lactobacillus casei, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Neurospora crassa, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Nucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Ovary, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Peptide Synthases, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Pteroylpolyglutamic Acids, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:6458762-Swine
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
Folylpoly-gamma-glutamate synthesis by bacteria and mammalian cells.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't