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Folic acid and pterin deaminases in Dictyostelium discoideum: kinetic properties and regulation by folic acid, pterin, and adenosine 3',5'-phosphate.

ABSTRACT

Kinetic data obtained for deamination of pterin by the extracellular fraction from Dictyostelium discoideum yielded apparently linear Lineweaver-Burk plots for pterin. The Michaelis constant for pterin was 30 microM. The data for folic acid deamination yielded convex Lineweaver-Burk plots. Convex Lineweaver-Burk plots could result from the presence of two types of enzymes with different affinities. The data for folic acid deamination were analyzed mathematically for two types of enzymes. This analysis produced Michaelis constants for folic acid of 1.8 and 23 microM competition studies suggested that an enzyme with low affinity nonspecifically catalyzed the deamination of folic acid and pterin, whereas an enzyme with high affinity was a specific folic acid deaminase. A specific folic acid deaminase with high affinity appeared to be present on the surface of D. discoideum cells. The Michaelis constant for this enzyme was 2.6 microM. Cells growing in nutrient broth and cells starved in phosphate buffer released folic acid and pterin deaminases. The quantity of deaminase activities released by the cells appeared to be controlled by chemoattractants. Starving cells that were supplied with folic acid, pterin, or adenosine 3',5'-phosphate increased their extracellular folic acid and pterin deaminase activities to a larger extent than did cell suspensions to which no chemoattractants were added. Administration of folic acid or pterin to starving cells caused increases of the activity of extracellular adenosine 3',5'-phosphate phosphodiesterase and repressed increases of the activity of phosphodiesterase inhibitor.

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