Kinetic studies of ox-liver glutamate dehydrogenase oxidative deamination of two glutamate analogues, L-threo-gamma-methylglutamate and L-alpha-amino-gamma-nitraminobutyrate, in the presence of the allosteric effector ADP.

Ox-liver glutamate dehydrogenase is known to utilise a wide range of amino acid substrates. Kinetic studies are presented here for L-threo-gamma-methylglutamate and L-alpha-amino-gamma-nitraminobutyrate in the presence of the allosteric effector ADP. The results presented are considered in the light of similar studies presented elsewhere in which the cofactor was systematically replaced by a variety of analogues. These amino acid analogues share the same pH optimum as glutamate, unlike the monocarboxylic amino acids including alanine and norvaline, and give linear double-reciprocal plots under the conditions used here. Studies with the alternative coenzymes have suggested an ordered addition of glutamate before coenzyme in the presence of ADP. The present results obtained under identical conditions support this conclusion.