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JBC, Vol. 254, Issue 24, 12285-12288, Dec, 1979

Thymidylate synthetase and 2'-deoxyuridylate form a tight complex in the presence of pteroyltriglutamate

A. Lockshin and P. V. Danenberg

Thymidylate synthetases of human and bacterial origin form a tightly bound complex with the substrate dUMP in the presence of pteroyltriglutamate. This complex and the weaker enzyme . dUMP binary complex can be isolated and conveniently assayed by nitrocellulose disc filtration using [6-3H]dUMP as the radioactive ligand. Intact thymidylate synthetase . dUMP . pteroyltriglutamate complex can be obtained by gel filtration chromatography on Sephadex G-25, but the binary enzyme . dUMP complex dissociates under the same conditions. Scatchard plots show the presence of two nonequivalent dUMP binding sites on the enzyme for the pteroyltriglutamate complex, with dissociation constants of 5 and 95 nM compared to 730 nM for the binary complex. The implications of these findings for folate analog inhibition of thymidylate synthetase are discussed.
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