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J Biol Chem, Vol. 275, Issue 19, 14722-14728, May 12, 2000

UDP-N-acetylglucosamine Pyrophosphorylase, a Key Enzyme in Encysting Giardia, Is Allosterically Regulated^*

Dorota A. Bulik, Peter van Ophem, James M. Manning, Zuojun Shen^§, David S. Newburg^§, and Edward L. Jarroll^¶

From the  Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 and ^§ Program in Glycobiology, Shriver Center, Waltham, Massachusetts 02460 and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Giardia synthesizes UDP-GalNAc during cyst wall formation (encystment) via a pathway of inducible enzymes similar to that used to synthesize chitin or peptidoglycan and that includes the UTP-requiring UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase. Although it has never been reported as a regulatory enzyme in any system studied to date, kinetic data including Hill plots demonstrate clearly that UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase activity, purified from encysting Giardia, is allosterically activated anabolically by physiological levels of glucosamine 6-phosphate (3 µM). Capillary electrophoresis demonstrates that within 24 h after trophozoites are induced to encyst, the level of glucosamine 6-phosphate increases 3-fold over that of non-encysting cells and that by 48 h into encystment the level of glucosamine 6-phosphate has decreased to non-encysting levels or below. UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase protein is present constitutively in encysting as well as non-encysting cells. UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase immunoaffinity purified from encysting and non-encysting cells exhibited the same molecular weight, amino acid composition, and circular dichroism spectra. Moreover, regardless of whether the enzyme came from encysting or non-encysting cells, the change in its circular dichroism spectra and up to a 6-fold increase in its specific activity anabolically were due to its activation with glucosamine 6-phosphate. Thus, the data support the idea that UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase is a major regulatory point in amino sugar synthesis in encysting Giardia and that its allosteric anabolic activation may shift the equilibrium of this pathway toward UDP-GalNAc synthesis.

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