Patterns of product inhibition of a bifunctional dehydrogenase; L-histidinol:NAD+ oxidoreductase.

The steady-state kinetic patterns of the bifunctional enzyme histidinol dehydrogenase from Salmonella typhimurium (EC 1.1.1.23) are compatible with a bi-uni uni-bi ping-pong mechanism. Studies of product inhibition make it possible to determine the sequence of substrate binding and product dissociation. Histidinol binds first to the enzyme, followed by the binding of NAD+; histidine is the last product to dissociate from histidinol dehydrogenase. Five of ten kinetic constants defined are determined from linear intercept and slope replots; Km for histidinol was found to be 16 +/- 3 microM and for NAD+ 1 +/- 0.3 mM; K2 for NAD+ was determined to be 0.8 +/- 0.4 mM and K3 for NADH to be 0.3 +/- 0.07 mM. K1 for histidine was found to be 2.1 +/- 0.5 mM.