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  • Title: Purification and properties of mouse thymus thymidylate synthase. Comparison of the enzyme from mammalian normal and tumour tissues.
    Author: Rode W, Cieśla J, Zieliński Z, Kedzierska B.
    Journal: Int J Biochem; 1986; 18(4):361-8. PubMed ID: 3709927.
    Abstract:
    Mouse thymus thymidylate synthase has been purified to apparent electrophoretic homogeneity and compared with the enzyme from mouse tumour L1210 and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells. The enzyme is a dimer composed of 35,000 mol. wt monomers. Mouse thymus and tumour enzymes exhibit allosteric properties reflected by cooperative binding of both dUMP and 5-fluoro-dUMP. Activation energy for the reaction, catalyzed by thymidylate synthase from mouse tumour but not from mouse thymus, lowers at temperatures above 34 degrees C, reflecting a change of rate-limiting step in dTMP formation. MgATP at millimolar concentrations inhibits mouse thymus enzyme.
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