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Leucine dehydrogenase (l-leucine: NAD+ oxidoreductase, deaminating, EC 1.4.1.9) has been purified to homogeneity from a moderate thermophilic bacterium, Bacillus stearothermophilus. Am improved method of preparative slab gel electrophoresis was used effectively to purify it. The enzyme has a molecular mass of about 300,000 and consists of six subunits with identical molecular mass (Mr, 49,000). The enzyme does not lose its activity by heat treatment at 70° C for 20 min, and incubation in the pH range of 5.5–10.0 at 55° C for 5 min. It is stable in 10 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.2) containing 0.01% 2-mercaptoethanol at over 1 month, and is resistant to detergent and ethanol treatment. The enzyme catalyzes the oxidative deamination of branched-chain l-amino acids and the reductive amination of their keto analogs in the presence of NAD+ and NADH, respectively, as the coenzymes. The pH optima are 11 for the deamination of l-leucine, and 9.7 and 8.8 for the amination of α-ketoisocaproate and α-ketoisovalerate, respectively. The Michaelis constants were determined: 4.4 mM for l-leucine, 3.3 mM for l-valine, 1.4 mM for l-isoleucine and 0.49 mM for NAD+ in the oxidative deamination. The B. stearothermophilus enzyme shows similar catalytic properties, but higher activities than that from Bacillus sphaericus.
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Ohshima, T., Nagata, S. & Soda, K. Purification and characterization of thermostable leucine dehydrogenase from Bacillus stearothermophilus . Arch. Microbiol. 141, 407–411 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00428857
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