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Inhibition of Glucuronokinase by Substrate Analogs ¹

Department of Horticulture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Glucuronokinase from Lilium longiflorum pollen was purified 30- to 40- fold on a blue dextran-Sepharose column. Substrate analogs were tested for inhibitory effects, and nucleotide substrate specificity of the enzyme was determined. Nine nucleotides were tested, and all were inhibitory when the substrate was ATP. ADP was competitive with ATP and had a K_i value of 0.23 mM. None of the other nucleotide triphosphates could effectively substitute for ATP as a nucleotide substrate. Ten mM dATP and ITP reacted only 3% as rapidly as 10 mM ATP, while the rates for 10 mM GTP, CTP, UTP, and TTP were less than 1%. The glucuronic acid analogs, methyl -glucuronoside, methyl -glucuronoside, -glucuronic acid-1-phosphate, and 4-O-methylglucuronic acid were tested as possible enzyme inhibitors. The three methyl derivatives showed little or no inhibition. The -glucuronic acid-1-phosphate was inhibitory, with 50% inhibition obtained at 1 to 3 mM depending on the concentration of the glucuronic acid. It is concluded that the glucuronic acid-binding site on the enzyme is highly selective.