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  • Title: Direct photoaffinity-labelling of human deoxycytidine kinase with the feedback inhibitor dCTP.
    Author: Jansson O, Eriksson S.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1990 Jul 01; 269(1):201-5. PubMed ID: 2165395.
    Abstract:
    Deoxycytidine kinase (dCyd kinase, EC 2.7.1.74) is a key enzyme in the salvage pathway of deoxyribonucleosides, and the human enzyme is a dimer of two 30 kDa polypeptides with a broad substrate specificity, phosphorylating both purine and pyrimidine nucleosides and using various nucleoside triphosphates as phosphate donors. The enzyme is efficiently feedback-inhibited by dCTP, which presumably is the main regulator of its activity in vivo. Submicromolar concentrations of [32P]dCTP could be used for direct photoaffinity labelling of pure dCyd kinase isolated from leukaemic spleen. A clearcut saturation of photoincorporation occurred with half-maximal incorporation at 0.07 microM-dCTP. However, the total molar incorporation of dCTP was very low (approx. 0.1%), in part due to a substantial u.v. inactivation of the enzyme. Proteinase digestion of labelled enzyme showed that dCTP was incorporated predominantly into a single peptide. Addition of equimolar concentrations of dCyd or dCMP as compared with dCTP inhibited photoincorporation approx. 50%. The presence of other nucleoside substrates, as well as phosphate donors, also inhibited photolabelling of the enzyme. Thus photoincorporation of dCTP seems to occur at a site which can bind both the phosphate donors and acceptors of dCyd kinase, which strongly support the hypothesis that dCTP functions as a multi-substrate analogue, binding and bridging both substrate sites of the enzyme.
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