J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 10, 4668-4672, 04, 1988

The kinetic mechanism of the release of nucleotide from elongation factor Tu promoted by elongation factor Ts determined by pressure relaxation studies

JF Eccleston, TF Kanagasabai and MA Geeves
National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom.

The release of a chromophoric analogue of GDP, 2-amino-6-mercaptopurine riboside 5'-diphosphate (thioGDP), from its complex with elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) is catalyzed by elongation factor Ts (EF-Ts). The mechanism of this reaction includes a ternary complex; EF-Tu.thioGDP.EF- Ts (Eccleston, J. F. (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 12997-13003). This mechanism has been further investigated using pressure relaxation techniques combined with spectrophotometric measurements. The equilibrium of a solution of EF-Tu, EF-Ts, and thioGDP over a range of concentrations is perturbed on increasing the pressure to 150 atm. Rapid decrease of the pressure back to 1 atm results in a biphasic relaxation process, an initial fast phase which is complete within 1 ms followed by a slower phase. This is interpreted as the result of an isomerization of the EF-Tu.thioGDP.EF-Ts ternary complex which occurs before the release of thioGDP. Such an isomerization process may be a general feature in the release of GDP from guanosine nucleotide-binding proteins.
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