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A new guanosine nucleotide has been synthesized and characterized: guanosine 5'-O-[S-(3-bromo-2-oxopropyl)]thiophosphate (GMPSBOP), with a reactive functional group which can be placed at a position equivalent to the pyrophosphate region of GTP. This new analog is negatively charged at neutral pH and is similar in size to GTP. GMPSBOP has been shown to react with bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase with an incorporation of 2 mol of reagent/mol of subunit. The modification reaction desensitizes the enzyme to inhibition by GTP, activation by ADP, and inhibition by high concentrations of NADH, but does not affect the catalytic activity of the enzyme. The rate constant for reaction of GMPSBOP with the enzyme exhibits a nonlinear dependence on reagent concentration with KD = 75 microM. The addition to the reaction mixture of alpha-ketoglutarate, GTP, ADP, or NADH alone results in little decrease in the rate constant, but the combined addition of 5 mM NADH with 0.4 mM GTP or with 10 mM alpha-ketoglutarate reduces the reaction rate approximately 6-fold. GMPSBOP modifies peptides containing Met-169 and Tyr-262, of which Tyr-262 is not critical for the decreased sensitivity of the enzyme toward allosteric ligands. The presence of 0.4 mM GTP plus 5 mM NADH protects the enzyme against reaction at both Met-169 and Tyr-262, but yields enzyme with 1 mol of reagent incorporated/mol of subunit which is modified at an alternate site, Met-469. In the presence of 0.2 mM GTP + 0.1 mM NADH, protection against modification of Tyr-262, but only partial protection against labeling of Met-169, is observed. In contrast, the presence of 10 mM alpha-ketoglutarate + 5 mM NADH protect only against reaction with Met-169. The results suggest that GMPSBOP reacts at the GTP-dependent NADH regulatory site [Lark, R. H., & Colman, R. F. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 10659-10666] of bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase, which markedly affects the sensitivity of the enzyme to GTP inhibition. The reaction of GMPSBOP with Met-169 is primarily responsible for the altered allosteric properties of the enzyme.

Three of the four deoxynucleoside kinases required for growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26 exist as heterodimeric pairs specific for deoxyadenosine (dAK) and deoxycytidine (dCK) or dAK and deoxyguanosine (dGK). However, only two tandem genes, dak͞dgk, are found, and are expressed only as dAK͞dGK in transformed Escherichia coli. Sequencing peptides spanning 63% of the native dCK subunit revealed a sequence identical to that deduced from dgk (beginning MTVIVL⅐⅐⅐), except that dCK lacks residues 2 and 3 (dCK is M⅐⅐IVL; dGK is ⅐TVIVL). Also, mass spectrometry indicates that native dCK and dGK subunits are identical in mass adjusted for the first three residues. Furthermore, the native enzymes have identical isoelectric pH values, indicating an equal number of charged residues. To enable E. coli to express peptide having the native dCK sequence, codons 2 and 3 were deleted from the dgk portion of the tandem genes, resulting in expression of protein having the specificities and regulatory properties of native dAK͞dCK, including heterotropic stimulation of dAK activity by deoxycytidine or dCTP (not deoxyguanosine or dGTP) and end-product inhibition of the respective activities by dATP and dCTP. Subcloning normal and mutant dgk yielded homodimeric dGK and dCK, respectively. The dCK homodimer strongly resembles human dCK, with a low K m for deoxycytidine, the ability to phosphorylate deoxyadenosine and deoxyguanosine at much higher K m values, and end-product inhibition by dCTP. Thus two distinct and specific enzymes evidently are derived from a single Lactobacillus gene. The mechanism by which this occurs in vivo has yet to be elucidated.