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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 260, Issue 5, 2633-2635, 03, 1985

A new mechanism for regulation of tyrosine 3-monooxygenase by end product and cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase

S Okuno and H Fujisawa

Tyrosine 3-monooxygenase activity of the crude extract from rat striatum had a sharp pH optimum at pH 5.4 and showed almost no activity at or above pH 7. When the crude extract was partially purified by pH precipitation and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, the enzyme showed a high activity in the pH range of 5.8 to 7.4. Incubation of the partially purified enzyme with catecholamines such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine resulted in a remarkable decrease in the enzyme activity, as assayed at a neutral pH. This suppression of the enzyme activity by catecholamines differed from the well-known feedback inhibition which is competitive with respect to the pterin cofactor; the former occurred at a very much lower concentration of catecholamines even in the presence of a near-saturating concentration of a pterin cofactor, and the former was a time-dependent reaction. The enzyme, the activity of which had been suppressed by the incubation with dopamine, was remarkably activated by the incubation with the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in the presence of an ATP-generating system. These results suggest that the activity of tyrosine 3-monooxygenase may be suppressed by its end products in a normal state and it may be stimulated by cyclic AMP- dependent protein kinase as occasion demands.
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