By reaction of adenosine 5'-monothiophosphate with benzophenone-4-maleimide, we synthesized adenosine 5'-
O-[
S-(4-succinimidyl-benzophenone)thiophosphate] (AMPS-Succ-BP) as a photoreactiveADP analogue. Bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase is known to be allosterically activated by ADP,but the ADP site has not been located in the crystal structure of the hexameric enzyme [
Peterson, P. E.,and Smith, T. J. (1999)
Structure 7, 769-782]. In the dark, AMPS-Succ-BP reversibly activates GDH.Irradiation of the complex of glutamate dehydrogenase and AMPS-Succ-BP at
>300 nm causes a time-dependent, irreversible 2-fold activation of the enzyme. The
kobs for photoactivation shows nonlineardependence on the concentration of AMPS-Succ-BP, with
KR = 4.9
M and
kmax = 0.076 min
-1. The
kobsfor photoreaction by 20
M AMPS-Succ-BP is decreased 10-fold by 200
M ADP, but is reduced lessthan 2-fold by NAD, NADH, GTP, or
-ketoglutarate. Modified enzyme is no longer activated by ADP,but is still inhibited by GTP and high concentrations of NADH. These results indicate that reaction ofAMPS-Succ-BP occurs within the ADP site. The enzyme incorporates up to 0.5 mol of [
3H]AMPS-Succ-BP/mol of enzyme subunit or 3 mol of reagent/mol of hexamer. The peptide Lys
488-Glu
495 has beenidentified as the only reaction target, and the data suggest that Arg
491 is the modified amino acid. Arg
491(in the C-terminal helix close to the GTP #2 binding domain of GDH) is thus considered to be at or nearthe enzyme's allosteric ADP site. On the basis of these results, the AMPS-Succ-BP was positioned withinthe crystal structure of glutamate dehydrogenase, where it should also mark the ADP binding site of theenzyme.