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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 4, 1570-1574, Feb, 1987

Interaction of rat mammary gland thioesterase II with fatty acid synthetase is dependent on the presence of acyl chains on the synthetase

J Mikkelsen, A Witkowski and S Smith

The interaction between rat mammary gland thioesterase II and fatty acid synthetase has been studied by a variety of physicochemical techniques. Pyrene-labeled thioesterase II does not exhibit increased fluorescence anisotropy when mixed with fatty acid synthetase, suggesting that the enzymes do not readily form a complex. Nevertheless, the functional interaction between the enzymes can be easily demonstrated by observing the hydrolysis, by unmodified thioesterase II, of acyl chains from their thioester linkage to the 4- phosphopantetheine of the fatty acid synthetase. This hydrolytic reaction is not inhibited even in the presence of a large excess of fatty acid synthetase with vacant 4'-phosphopantetheine thiols, indicating that interaction occurs only between thioesterase and fatty acid synthetase species which carry acyl chains on the 4'- phosphopantetheine thiols. A novel model system was devised which allowed us to explore the nature of the physical interaction between the two enzymes under conditions where the synthetase was actively engaged in acyl chain assembly. Fatty acid synthetase was treated with phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride to inhibit its resident thioesterase activity, immobilized via a specific antibody to a column of Sepharose 4B, and exposed to the substrates required for acyl-enzyme assembly. When thioesterase II was introduced to the column, it passed through unretarded even though it efficiently catalyzed hydrolysis of the immobilized S-acyl synthetase en route. These results indicate that the two enzymes associate when an acyl chain is present on the synthetase and that they dissociate rapidly following completion of the catalytic process. Thus, the mammary system differs from that of the avian uropygial gland in which the two enzymes associate to form a stable complex even in the absence of substrates.
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