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SUBMITTER: Nanga RP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4097173 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nanga Ravi Prakash Reddy RP DeBrosse Catherine C Singh Anup A D'Aquilla Kevin K Hariharan Hari H Reddy Ravinder R
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20140419 4
Here, for the first time, we report an NMR spectroscopy study of l-Glutamine (Gln) conversion by Glutaminase (Glnase), which shows that the reaction involves two distinct steps. In the first step, Glnase rapidly hydrolyzes Gln to Glutamate (Glu) (∼16.87 μmol of Gln/min/mg of Glnase) and in the second step, Glu generated in the first step is decarboxylated into gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) with a much slower rate (∼0.185 μmol/min/mg). When Glnase was added to the sample containing l-Glu alone, ...[more]