PMID- 8204587 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19940708 LR - 20190613 IS - 0006-2960 (Print) IS - 0006-2960 (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 21 DP - 1994 May 31 TI - Inhibition of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase by pentalenolactone. 2. Identification of the site of alkylation by tetrahydropentalenolactone. PG - 6524-30 AB - Incubation of rabbit muscle glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) with the antibiotic pentalenolactone (3) results in time-dependent, irreversible inhibition of GAPDH by modification of a single Cys residue in each subunit of the homotetrameric enzyme. Reduction of pentalenolactone with tritium gas gave [2,3,7,8-3H4]tetrahydropentalenolactone (7), which also exhibited time-dependent, irreversible inactivation of GAPDH. The site of covalent attachment of 7 was determined. Tryptic digestion of inactivated GAPDH and purification of the resultant products by reverse-phase HPLC gave a single labeled peptide. Amino acid sequence analysis of the radioactive peptide gave Ile-Val-Ser-Asn-Ala-Ser-X-Thr-Thr-Asn-(...). This sequence is identical to the highly conserved region from Ile-143 to Asn-152 in pig muscle GAPDH, except for the active site Cys-149 to which the tetrahydropentalenolactone was covalently bound. Molecular modeling was used to compare both pentalenolactone (3) and heptelidic acid (4), a mechanistically related inactivator of GAPDH, with the normal substrate, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (1). Finally, pentalenolactone was shown by reaction with model thiols to undergo epoxide ring opening exclusively by nucleophilic attack at the primary carbon, C-10. FAU - Cane, D E AU - Cane DE AD - Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912. FAU - Sohng, J K AU - Sohng JK LA - eng GR - GM-22172/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Biochemistry JT - Biochemistry JID - 0370623 RN - 0 (Sesquiterpenes) RN - 0 (Sulfhydryl Compounds) RN - 156900-92-4 (tetrahydropentalenolactone) RN - 31501-48-1 (arenaemycin E) RN - EC 1.2.1.- (Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases) SB - IM MH - Alkylation MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Binding Sites MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases/*antagonists & inhibitors MH - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Muscles/enzymology MH - Rabbits MH - Sesquiterpenes/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Sulfhydryl Compounds/chemistry EDAT- 1994/05/31 00:00 MHDA- 1994/05/31 00:01 CRDT- 1994/05/31 00:00 PHST- 1994/05/31 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1994/05/31 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1994/05/31 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/bi00187a020 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochemistry. 1994 May 31;33(21):6524-30. doi: 10.1021/bi00187a020.