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Metabolism and Enzymology

Regulation by Ca²⁺ of a Cytosolic Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphatase from Spinach Leaves ¹

Department of Plant Biochemistry, Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), 18008-Granada, Spain

Cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase from spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaves was purified over 1700-fold. The final preparation was specific for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate in the presence of either Mg²⁺ or Mn²⁺, and was free of interfering enzyme activities. Ca²⁺ was an effector of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase activity, and showed different kinetics, depending on whether Mg²⁺ or Mn²⁺ was used as cofactor. In the presence of 5 millimolar Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺ appeared as activator or as inhibitor of the enzyme at low or high levels of substrate, respectively. In both cases, a rise in affinity for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate was observed. A model is proposed to describe the complex interaction of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with its substrate and Ca²⁺. However, with Mn²⁺ (60 micromolar) as cofactor, Ca²⁺ exhibited the Michaelis-Menten kinetics of a noncompetitive inhibitor. When assayed at constant substrate concentration, Ca²⁺ behaves as a competitive or noncompetitive inhibitor, depending on the use of Mg²⁺ or Mn²⁺ as cofactor, respectively, with a positive cooperativity in both cases. Fructose-2,6-bisphosphate showed a classic competitive allosteric inhibition in the presence of Mg²⁺ as cofactor, but this effect was low with Mn²⁺. From these results we suggest that Ca²⁺ plays a role in the in vivo regulation of cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase.

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