Abstract
Glutamate dehydrogenase fromEscherichia coli is phosphorylated in vitro in an ATP-dependent enzymatic reaction. The phosphorylated protein, when exposed to acid conditions, releases the phosphate; this implies that the phosphorylation site is not on a serine, tyrosine, or threonine residue(s). Treatment of glutamate dehydrogenase with diethyl pyrocarbonate, a highly specific histidine-modifying reagent, blocks incorporation of32P-phosphate from [γ-32P]ATP into the enzyme, suggestive that the phosphorylation site is a histidine residue(s). The phosphorylated glutamate dehydrogenase was identified on the basis of its comigration with highly purified glutamate dehydrogenase, isolated fromE. coli, on denaturing, nondenaturing, and isoelectric focusing polyacrylamide gels and by sequence analysis.
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