scholarly journals Mechanism of the reaction of papain with substrate-derived diazomethyl ketones. Implications for the difference in site specificity of halomethyl ketones for serine proteinases and cysteine proteinases and for stereoelectronic requirements in the papain catalytic mechanism

1978 ◽  
Vol 175 (2) ◽  
pp. 761-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Brocklehurst ◽  
J P G Malthouse
Keyword(s):  
Catalytic Mechanism ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Thiol Group ◽  
Site Specificity ◽  
Serine Proteinases ◽  
Cysteine Proteinases ◽  
Cyclic Transition ◽  
Cyclic Transition State ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Diazomethyl Ketones

The reactions of papain (EC 3.4.22.2) with substrate-derived diazomethyl ketones reported by Leary, Larsen, Watanabe & Shaw [Biochemistry (1977) 16, 5857–5861] are unusual in that (i) these reagents fail to react with low-molecular-weight thiols and (ii) the rate of reaction with the papain thiol group does not decrease to near-zero values across a pKa of 4 as the pH is decreased. Existing data are shown to suggest an interpretation involving neighbouring-group participation via transient thiohemiketal formation, rate-determining protonation by imidazolium ion and alkylation on sulphur via a three-membered cyclic transition state. Implications for (a) the difference in site-specificity exhibited by halomethyl ketones in their reactions with serine proteinases and cysteine proteinases and (b) stereoelectronic requirements in the mechanism of papain-catalysed hydrolysis are discussed. The possibility of two tetrahedral intermediates between adsorptive complex and acyl-enzyme is indicated.

scholarly journals The synthesis of peptidylfluoromethanes and their properties as inhibitors of serine proteinases and cysteine proteinases

1986 ◽  
Vol 239 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Rauber ◽  
H Angliker ◽  
B Walker ◽  
E Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Cathepsin B ◽  
Cysteine Proteinase ◽  
Bond Formation ◽  
Serine Proteinase ◽  
Covalent Bond ◽  
Serine Proteinases ◽  
Cysteine Proteinases ◽  
Active Centre ◽  
Covalent Bond Formation ◽  
The Difference

A synthesis of peptidylfluoromethanes is described that utilizes the conversion of phthaloyl amino acids into their fluoromethane derivatives. These can be deblocked and elongated. The inactivation of chymotrypsin by Cbz-Phe-CH2F (benzyloxycarbonylphenylalanylfluoromethane) was found to be considerably slower than that of the analogous chloromethane. The fluoromethane analogue inactivates chymotrypsin with an overall rate constant that is 2% of that observed for the inactivation of the enzyme with the chloromethane. However, the result is the same. The reagent complexes in a substrate-like manner, with Ki = 1.4 × 10(-4) M, and alkylates the active-centre histidine residue. Cbz-Phe-Phe-CH2F and Cbz-Phe-Ala-CH2F were investigated as inactivators of the cysteine proteinase cathepsin B. The difference in reactivity between fluoromethyl ketones and chloromethyl ketones is less pronounced in the case of the cysteine proteinase than for the serine proteinase. Covalent bond formation takes place in this case also, as demonstrated by the use of a radiolabelled reagent.

Kinetic Studies of [4n+2]π-Thermal Cyclodimerization of 1-(3-Pyridazinyl)-3-oxidopyridinium Betaines

1992 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 1951-1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madlene L. Iskander ◽  
Samia A. El-Abbady ◽  
Alyaa A. Shalaby ◽  
Ahmed H. Moustafa
Keyword(s):  
Energy Gap ◽  
Activation Parameters ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Cyclic Transition ◽  
Concerted Mechanism ◽  
First Order ◽  
Thermodynamic Activation Parameters ◽  
Cyclic Transition State ◽  
Complete Dissociation ◽  
Homo Lumo

The reactivity of the base induced cyclodimerization of 1-(6-arylpyridazin-3-yl)-3-oxidopyridinium chlorides in a pericyclic process have been investigated kinetically at λ 380 nm. The reaction was found to be second order with respect to the liberated betaine and zero order with respect to the base. On the other hand dedimerization (monomer formation) was found to be first order. It was shown that dimerization is favoured at low temperature, whereas dedimerization process is favoured at relatively high temperature (ca 70 °C). Solvent effects on the reaction rate have been found to follow the order ethanol > chloroform ≈ 1,2-dichloroethane. Complete dissociation was accomplished only in 1,2-dichloroethane at ca 70 °C. The thermodynamic activation parameters have been calculated by a standard method. Thus, ∆G# has been found to be independent on substituents and solvents. The high negative values of ∆S# supports the cyclic transition state which is in favour with the concerted mechanism. MO calculations using SCF-PPP approximation method indicated low HOMO-LUMO energy gap of the investigated betaines.

The structure and mechanism of action of papain

1970 ◽  
Vol 257 (813) ◽  
pp. 237-248 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanism Of Action ◽  
Catalytic Mechanism ◽  
Proteolytic Enzymes ◽  
Cysteine Proteinase ◽  
Preceding Paper ◽  
Cysteine Residue ◽  
Enzymic Activity ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
Cysteine Proteinases ◽  
Stem Bromelain

The cysteine proteinases form a group of enzymes which depend for their enzymic activity on the thiol group of a cysteine residue. Several which occur in plants have been investigated extensively and include papain, ficin and stem bromelain (Smith & Kimmel i960). Although the term papain, introduced last century to describe the proteolytic principle in papaya latex (Wurtz & Bouchut 1879) is still used to describe crude dried latex, the crystalline enzyme is readily obtained (Kimmel & Smith 1954). Ficin is known to consist of several closely related enzymes which have been resolved (Sgarbieri, Gupte, Kramer & Whitaker 1964), but for most structural and mechanistic studies the unresolved mixture of enzymes has been used. Stem bromelain also appears to be a mixture of at least two proteolytic enzymes which have not yet been resolved (Ota, Moore & Stein 1962; Murachi 1964). In spite of the recognized heterogeneity of ficin and stem bromelain, it does seem that both structurally and mechanistically they are similar to papain. Only one bacterial cysteine proteinase has received a detailed study, namely, streptococcal proteinase, and it appears to have little or no relation in its amino acid sequence with the plant enzymes (Liu, Stein, Moore & Elliott 1965). The functional groups involved in the catalytic mechanism are apparently the same as in the plant proteinases (Gerwin, Stein & Moore 1966; Liu 1967; Husain & Lowe 1968 a , c ), but the mechanism of action has not been extensively studied. It may well be however that the plant and bacterial cysteine proteinases have converged onto a similar mechanism of action by two independent evolutionary pathways, as now seems apparent for the animal and bacterial serine proteinases (Alden, Wright & Kraut, this volume, p. 119). Because the tertiary crystal structure of papain (Drenth, Jansonius, Koekoek, Swen & Wolthers 1968; see also the preceding paper, p. 231) is now known, a critical survey of this enzyme is apposite.

Divergent Reactivity of Stannane and Silane in the Trifluoromethylation of PdII: Cyclic Transition State versus Difluorocarbene Release

2018 ◽  
Vol 130 (46) ◽  
pp. 15301-15305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maoping Pu ◽  
Italo A. Sanhueza ◽  
Erdem Senol ◽  
Franziska Schoenebeck
Keyword(s):  
Transition State ◽  
Cyclic Transition ◽  
Cyclic Transition State

Picornaviral 3C cysteine proteinases have a fold similar to chymotrypsin-like serine proteinases

Nature ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 369 (6475) ◽  
pp. 72-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Allaire ◽  
Maia M. Chernaia ◽  
Bruce A. Malcolm ◽  
Michael N. G. James
Keyword(s):  
Serine Proteinases ◽  
Cysteine Proteinases

scholarly journals Kinetics and Correlation Analysis of Reactivity in the Oxidation of Some α-Hydroxy Acids by Benzimidazolium Dichromate

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 300-314
Author(s):  
Dinesh Panday ◽  
Teena Kachawa ◽  
Seema Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Solvent Effect ◽  
Mandelic Acid ◽  
Bond Cleavage ◽  
Hydroxy Acids ◽  
Cyclic Transition ◽  
Hydride Ion ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Reaction Constant ◽  
Cyclic Transition State ◽  
Hydride Ion Transfer

Kinetic and mechanistic studies of the oxidation of mandelic acid and nine monosubstituted mandelic acids by benzimidazolium dichromate (BIDC) in dimethyl sulfoxide are discussed with an emphasis on correlation of structure and reactivity. The reactions were of first order with respect to BIDC. However, Michaelis-Menten type kinetics were observed with respect to hydroxy acids. The reactions are catalysed by protons. The deuterium isotope effect for the oxidation of mandelic acid ( kH/ kD = 5.91 at 298 K) indicated an α-C-H bond cleavage in the rate-determining step. An analysis of the solvent effect showed that the role of cationsolvation is major. The reaction showed an excellent correlation with the Hammett σ values, the reaction constant being negative. Based on the kinetic data, analysis of the solvent effect and results of structure-reactivity correlation along with some non-kinetic parameters, a mechanism involving rate-determining oxidative decomposition of the complex through hydride-ion transfer via a cyclic transition state to give the corresponding oxoacid is suggested.

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