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Control analysis of mammalian serine biosynthesis. Feedback inhibition on the final step.

ABSTRACT: The flux of serine biosynthesis in the liver of the normal rabbit, and of the rat on a low protein diet, is most sensitive to the activity of phosphoserine phosphatase (flux control coefficient up to 0.97), the last of the three enzymes in the pathway after it branches from glycolysis. The concentration of the pathway product, serine, has a strong controlling influence on the flux (response coefficient up to -0.64) through feedback inhibition at this step. The pathway is therefore controlled primarily by the demand for serine rather than the supply of the pathway precursor, 3-phosphoglycerate. Under conditions where there is a lower biosynthetic flux, the flux control coefficients of the first two enzymes of the pathway are increased, and are probably dominant in the rat on a normal diet. In rabbit liver, when ethanol is used to inhibit serine biosynthesis, control can be distributed between the three enzymes, even though the reactions catalysed by the first two remain close to equilibrium. Apart from their intrinsic value in aiding the understanding of the regulation of mammalian serine metabolism, our findings illustrate the danger of assuming that there are invariant design principles in the regulation of metabolic pathways, such as feedback control on the first step after a branch.

SUBMITTER: Fell DA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1135373 | biostudies-other | 1988 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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