Glutamate dehydrogenase model

Experience with model calculations for equilibrium isotope effects and kinetic isotope effects, when using conventional TST, shows that the RGM is valid in the common circumstance in which the effects of coupled vibrational motions cancel between reactant and product states, or between reactant and transition states. The natural coupling expected between the various bends and stretches of the bonds in a methyl group is largely the same in the reactant state and transition state in the acetyl transfer example, so the free-energy effects of multiple isotopic substitutions are strictly additive. In the case of the glutamate dehydrogenase reaction of Fig. 

Fig. 2. Columns (a) to (d), electron micrographs of isolated molecules of glutamate dehydrogenase in various orientations. Column (e), computed projections of a model having spherical subunits. Column (f), two models of gluatamate dehydrogenase. Both models yield similar shadowgraph projections. The vertical axis is the 3-fold axis of each molecule, and the horizontal axis represents one of the three identical 2-fold axes. Courtesy of Josephs (139).

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The paramyxoviruses, largely because of their profound cell-fusing activity, have served as an important model of membrane perturbation by viruses. During Sendai virus-mediated fusion of mouse ascites cells, Pasternak and Micklem (1973) detected loss of intracellular metabolites coincident with inhibition of their accumulation from the medium. This failure to maintain selective permeability did not occur at 0°C and was unaffected by cytochalasin B which inhibits fusion by the virus. Chick embryo fibroblasts infected with Newcastle disease virus were found to release cellular enzymes, such as lactate dehydrogenase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, and lysosomal enzymes (Katzman and Wilson, 1974). These cells also became... 

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