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Properties of tyrosine-inhibitable 3-deoxy-d-arabinoheptulosonic acid-7-phosphate synthase from Salmonella.

ABSTRACT

Tyrosine-inhibitable 3-deoxy-D-arabinoheptulosonic acid-7-phosphate (DAHP) synthase was purified to homogeneity without significant loss of sensitivity to inhibition by tyrosine from an operator-constitutive strain (tyrOc) of Salmonella. The enzyme had an apparent molecular weight of 76,000 by gel filtration and a subunit molecular weight of 40,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis and by reaction with dimethyl suberimidate. It had an isoelectric point of 4.68. Inhibition by L-tyrosine showed a Hill coefficient of 1.8 at pH 7.0, suggesting cooperative interaction between tyrosine-binding sites, and was competitive with phosphoenol pyruvate and noncompetitive with erythrose-4-phosphate.