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Kinetics of Polynucleotide Phosphorylase: Comparison of Enzymes from Streptomyces and Escherichia coli and Effects of Nucleoside Diphosphates

Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30319,¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3²

Received 5 March 2007/ Accepted 18 October 2007

We examined the activity of polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase) from Streptomyces coelicolor, Streptomyces antibioticus, and Escherichia coli in phosphorolysis using substrates derived from the rpsO-pnp operon of S. coelicolor. The Streptomyces and E. coli enzymes were both able to digest a substrate with a 3' single-stranded tail although E. coli PNPase was more effective in digesting this substrate than were the Streptomyces enzymes. The k_cat for the E. coli enzyme was ca. twofold higher than that observed with the S. coelicolor enzyme. S. coelicolor PNPase was more effective than its E. coli counterpart in digesting a substrate possessing a 3' stem-loop structure, and the K_m for the E. coli enzyme was ca. twice that of the S. coelicolor enzyme. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed an increased affinity of S. coelicolor PNPase for the substrate possessing a 3' stem-loop structure compared with the E. coli enzyme. We observed an effect of nucleoside diphosphates on the activity of the S. coelicolor PNPase but not the E. coli enzyme. In the presence of a mixture of 20 µM ADP, CDP, GDP, and UDP, the K_m for the phosphorolysis of the substrate with the 3' stem-loop was some fivefold lower than the value observed in the absence of nucleoside diphosphates. No effect of nucleoside diphosphates on the phosphorolytic activity of E. coli PNPase was observed. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of an effect of nucleoside diphosphates, the normal substrates for polymerization by PNPase, on the phosphorolytic activity of that enzyme.

Published ahead of print on 26 October 2007.