Human erythrocyte phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase. Subunit analysis and states of subunit association.

Structure of the rat PRPS1 gene encoding phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase subunit I.

Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PP-Rib-P) synthetase (EC 2.7.6.1) subunit I gene (PRPS1) is constitutively expressed in various tissues (Taira, M., Iizasa, T., Yamada, K., Shimada, H., and Tatibana, M. (1989) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1007, 203-208). We report here the exon-intron organization and the transcription promoter sequence of rat PRPS1 gene. This gene has 22 kilobases and is split into 7 ex...

Identification of a novel p300-specific-associating protein, PRS1 (phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase subunit 1).

CBP [CREB (cAMP-response-element-binding protein)-binding protein] and p300 play critical roles in transcriptional co-activation, cell differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis. Multiple transcription factors associate with CBP/p300. With the exception of the SYT oncoprotein, no proteins have been identified that specifically associate with p300, but not CBP. In the present study, we isolate...

Tryptophan Synthetase ,& Subunit

Radioactivity incorporated into an e-N-5’-phosphopyridoxyllysine residue of the /3 chain by reduction of the flZ holoenzyme with tritiated sodium borohydride appears in two tryptic peptides. These pyridoxyl peptides differ by only a single arginyl residue. As expected, tryptic digests of normal protein contain two peptides that together make up the pyridoxyl peptide region. The primary structur...

Decrease in subunit aggregation of phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase: a mechanism for decreased nucleotide concentrations in pyruvate kinase-deficient human erythrocytes.

Pyruvate kinase (PK)-deficient RBCs have several unexplained metabolic abnormalities, such as decreased concentrations of total adenine nucleotides (AMP, ADP, and ATP) and total (oxidized and reduced) nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). Because 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate (PRPP) is an intermediate in the synthesis of adenine nucleotides and NAD, we investigated PRPP synthetase (PRPPS)...

Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase superactivity