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      Decarboxylation of oxalacetate by pyruvate carboxylase.

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          The decarboxylation of oxalacetate by pyruvate carboxylase in the absence of ADP and Pi is stimulated 400-fold by the presence of oxamate, which is an inhibitory analogue of pyruvate. The observation of substrate inhibition when either oxamate or oxalacetate is varied at a fixed concentration of the other indicates that both molecules bind at the same site on the enzyme. The pH profiles for this reaction show no evidence of the involvement of an enzymic acid-base catalyst, suggesting that the proton and CO2 units may be exchanged directly between the reactants (although CO2 sequestered in the active site may be an intermediate in the process). The pH profiles of the full reverse reaction of pyruvate carboxylase in which oxalacetate decarboxylation is coupled to ATP formation and where Pi is the variable substrate do, however, indicate that such an acid-base catalyst is involved in the other partial reaction of the enzyme in proton transfer to and from biotin. The enzyme also displays two oxamate-independent oxalacetate decarboxylating activities, one of which is biotin-dependent and the other is independent of biotin.

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          Biochemistry
          Biochemistry
          0006-2960
          0006-2960
          Dec 16 1986
          : 25
          : 25
          Article
          3814578
          742b166d-6341-4d25-ba8e-52972b8f246d
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