Abstract
Inorganic pyrophosphate and polyphosphates have acted as potent inhibitors of purified AMP deaminase (EC 3.5.4.6) from yeast: the activity fell to a definite limit with the increase in the concentration of the inhibitor. The effect of polyphosphate was largely on the maximal velocity of the enzyme with some decrease in affinity. The cooperative effect of AMP, analyzed in terms of a Hill coefficient, remained at 2 in the absence and presence of polyphosphate. Binding of polyphosphate to the enzyme showed no cooperativity. The inhibition of AMP deaminase by polyphosphate can be qualitatively and quantitatively accounted for by the partial mixed-type inhibition mechanism. Both the Ki value for the inhibitor and the breakdown rate of the enzyme-substrate-inhibitor complex are dependent on the chain length of polyphosphate, suggesting that the breakdown rate of the enzyme-substrate-inhibitor complex is regulated by binding of polyphosphate to a specific inhibitory site.
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