scholarly journals Wheat-germ aspartate transcarbamoylase. Steady-state kinetics and stereochemistry of the binding site for l-aspartate

1979 ◽  
Vol 183 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
J E Grayson ◽  
R J Yon ◽  
P J Butterworth

1. The steady-state kinetics of the bisubstrate reaction catalysed by aspartate transcarbamoylase purified from wheat (Triticum vulgare)-germ have been studied at 25 degrees C, pH 8.5 AND I 0.10-0.12. Initial-velocity and product-inhibition results are consistent with an ordered sequential mechanism in which carbamoyl phosphate is the first substrate to bind, followed by L-aspartate, and carbamoyl aspartate is the first product to leave, followed by Pi. The order of substrate addition is supported by dead-end inhibition studies using pyrophosphate and maleate as inhibitory analogues of the substrates. Product inhibition permitted a minimum value for the dissociation constant of L-aspartate from the ternary complex to be estimated. This minimum is of the same order as the dissociation constant (Ki) of succinate. 2. A range of dicarboxy analogues of L-aspartate were tested as possible inhibitors of the enzyme. These studies suggested that L-aspartate is bound with its carboxy groups in the eclipsed configuration, and that the stereochemical constraints around the binding site are very similar to those reported for the catalytic subunit of the enzyme from Escherichia coli [Davies, Vanaman & Stark (1970) J. Biol. Chem. 245, 1175-1179].

Biochemistry ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (28) ◽  
pp. 6585-6591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grover L. Waldrop ◽  
Joanne L. Turnbull ◽  
Laura E. Parmentier ◽  
M. H. O'Leary ◽  
W. W. Cleland ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 297 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y S Kim ◽  
S W Kang

Malonyl-CoA synthetase catalyses the formation of malonyl-CoA directly from malonate and CoA with hydrolysis of ATP into AMP and PP1. The catalytic mechanism of malonyl-CoA synthetase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum was investigated by steady-state kinetics. Initial-velocity studies and the product-inhibition studies with AMP and PPi strongly suggested ordered Bi Uni Uni Bi Ping Pong Ter Ter system as the most probable steady-state kinetic mechanism of malonyl-CoA synthetase. Michaelis constants were 61 microM, 260 microM and 42 microM for ATP, malonate and CoA respectively, and the value for Vmax, was 11.2 microM/min. The t.l.c. analysis of the 32P-labelled products in a reaction mixture containing [gamma-32P]ATP in the absence of CoA showed that PPi was produced after the sequential addition of ATP and malonate. Formation of malonyl-AMP, suggested as an intermediate in the kinetically deduced mechanism, was confirmed by the analysis of 31P-n.m.r. spectra of an AMP product isolated from the 18O-transfer experiment using [18O]malonate. The 31P-n.m.r. signal of the AMP product appeared at 0.024 p.p.m. apart from that of [16O4]AMP, indicating that one atom of 18O transferred from [18O]malonate to AMP through the formation of malonyl-AMP. Formation of malonyl-AMP was also confirmed through the t.l.c. analysis of reaction mixture containing [alpha-32P]ATP. These results strongly support the ordered Bi Uni Uni Bi Pin Pong Ter Ter mechanism deduced from initial-velocity and product-inhibition studies.


1979 ◽  
Vol 177 (3) ◽  
pp. 861-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Jakobson ◽  
M Warholm ◽  
B Mannervik

Glutathione derivatives inhibit glutathione S-transferase A [cf. Biochem. J. (1975) 147, 513–522]. The steady-state kinetics of this inhibition have been investigated in detail by using S-octyglutathione, glutathione disulphide and S-(2-chloro-4-nitrophenyl)glutathione: the last compound is a product of the enzyme-catalused reaction. Interpreted in terms of generalized denotations of inhibition patterns, the compounds were found to be competitive with the substrate glutathione. Double-inhibition experiments involving simultaneous use of two inhibitors indicated exclusive binding of the inhibitors to the enzyme. The discrimination between alternative rate equations has been based on the results of weighted non-linear regression analysis. The experimental error was determined by replicate measurements and was found to increase with velocity. The established error structure was used as a basis for weighting in the regression and to construct confidence levels for the judgement of goodness-of-fit of rate equations fitted to experimental data. The results obtained support a steady-state random model for the mechanism of action of glutathione S-transferase A and exclude a number of simple kinetic models.


2009 ◽  
Vol 191 (8) ◽  
pp. 2884-2887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Thum ◽  
Cristopher Z. Schneider ◽  
Mario S. Palma ◽  
Diógenes S. Santos ◽  
Luiz A. Basso

ABSTRACT The Mycobacterium tuberculosis cmk gene, predicted to encode a CMP kinase (CMK), was cloned and expressed, and its product was purified to homogeneity. Steady-state kinetics confirmed that M. tuberculosis CMK is a monomer that preferentially phosphorylates CMP and dCMP by a sequential mechanism. A plausible role for CMK is discussed.


1989 ◽  
Vol 258 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Bowden ◽  
A D Hall ◽  
B Birdsall ◽  
J Feeney ◽  
G C K Roberts

The binding of substrates and inhibitors to dihydrofolate reductase was studied by steady-state kinetics and high-field 1H-n.m.r. spectroscopy. A series of 5-substituted 2,4-diaminopyrimidines were examined and were found to be ‘tightly binding’ inhibitors of the enzyme (Ki less than 10(-9) M). Studies on the binding of 4-substituted benzenesulphonamides and benzenesulphonic acids also established the existence of a ‘sulphonamide-binding site’ on the enzyme. Subsequent n.m.r. experiments showed that there are two binding sites for the sulphonamides on the enzyme, one of which overlaps the coenzyme (NADPH) adenine-ring-binding site. An examination of the pH-dependence of the binding of sulphonamides to the enzyme indicated the influence of an ionizable group on the enzyme that was not directly involved in the sulphonamide binding. The change in pKa value from 6.7 to 7.2 observed on sulphonamide binding suggests the involvement of a histidine residue, which could be histidine-28.


1973 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Preuveneers ◽  
D. Peacock ◽  
E. M. Crook ◽  
J. B. Clark ◽  
K. Brocklehurst

1. The reversible NAD+-linked oxidation of d-3-hydroxybutyrate to acetoacetate in 0.1m-sodium pyrophosphate buffer, pH8.5, at 25.0°C, catalysed by d-3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (d-3-hydroxybutyrate–NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.30), was studied by initial-velocity, dead-end inhibition and product-inhibition analysis. 2. The reactions were carried out on (a) the soluble enzyme from Rhodopseudomonas spheroides and (b) an insoluble derivative of this enzyme prepared by its covalent attachment to DEAE-cellulose by using 2-amino-4,6-dichloro-s-triazine as coupling agent. 3. The insolubilized enzyme preparation contained 5mg of protein/g wet wt. of total material, and when freshly prepared its specific activity was 1.2μmol/min per mg of protein, which is 67% of that of the soluble dialysed enzyme. 4. The reactions catalysed by both the enzyme in solution and the insolubilized enzyme were shown to follow sequential pathways in which the nicotinamide nucleotides bind obligatorily first to the enzyme. Evidence is presented for kinetically significant ternary complexes and that the rate-limiting step(s) of both catalyses probably involves isomerization of the enzyme–nicotinamide nucleotide complexes and/or dissociation of the nicotinamide nucleotides from the enzyme. Both catalyses therefore are probably best described as ordered Bi Bi mechanisms, possibly with multiple enzyme–nicotinamide nucleotide complexes. 5. The kinetic parameters and the calculable rate constants for the catalysis by the soluble enzyme are similar to the corresponding parameters and rate constants for the catalysis by the insolubilized enzyme.


1973 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Britton

1. The calculation of the rate constants from steady-state kinetics of a single-substrate–single-product enzyme reaction in which there is an isomerization of the enzyme is described. 2. It is shown that even with the use of isotopically labelled substrates a set of solutions for the constants is obtained rather than a unique solution. However, limits are derived within which they must lie. 3. The most appropriate observations to determine the rate constants are measurements of Vmax. and Km for both substrate and product, and measurement of the degree of countertransport in an induced-transport test. 4. Experimental procedures for induced-transport tests and the quantitative interpretation of the results obtained are discussed. 5. Product inhibition is shown to be an ambiguous and imprecise means of determining the rate constants. Further, the absence of a [substrate]×[product] term in the denominator of the steady-state rate equation does not necessarily mean that the isomerization of the enzyme is rapid, since the term also disappears when the isomerization is very slow. 6. Similar considerations apply to carrier mechanisms.


1977 ◽  
Vol 167 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy D. Waight ◽  
Paul Leff ◽  
William G. Bardsley

1. A study of variations in experimental error of velocity measurement with substrate concentration for alkaline phosphatase reveals that the standard error is not constant or strictly proportional to velocity, but obeys a more complex dependence. 2. By using an approach based on error estimates at each individual substrate concentration, we show that the double-reciprocal plots in general are curved, necessitating a high-degree rate equation. The curves are analysed according to a recent classification of possible curve shapes for the 3:3 function, which is shown to be the lowest-degree rate equation satisfying the experimental data. 4. Other workers have supposed the enzyme to follow Michaelis–Menten kinetics, and it is shown that this assumption is approximately true at low temperatures in the absence of phosphate. 5. A study of the effects of phosphate concentration, pH and temperature on the kinetics shows that there is a gradual alteration in curve shape with these experimental variables, resulting in an apparent reduction in degree under certain special conditions, and particularly at low temperature. 6. It is shown that the steady-state kinetics do not require a flip-flop or half-of-sites reactivity mechanism as claimed, and a mechanism is proposed, a rate equation calculated and an analysis attempted. 7. An analysis of the product-inhibition effects for a linked two-sited Uni Bi enzyme is given. Alterations of asymptotic double-reciprocal slopes and limiting (1/ν) intercepts with products is discussed, and it is shown how the theory of product inhibition can be extended to complex kinetic situations to extract information as to molecular mechanism. 8. Deviations from Michaelis–Menten kinetics are expressed in terms of the magnitude of the appropriate Sylvester resultants.


1976 ◽  
Vol 157 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
M J Crabbe ◽  
W G Bardsley

A study of the steady-state kinetics of fumarase over an extended concentration range, using novel methods of analysis, reveals an initial-rate equation of at least fourth degree for malate as substrate at pH 7.0, with no kinetically significant dead-end complex formation even up to concentrations of 100 mM. In the absence of demonstrable enzyme-aggregation phenomena, this is interpreted as indicating co-operative effects overlooked previously, although a mixture of isoenzymes, each individually of high degree and giving a complex curve, may be a contributing factor.


1992 ◽  
Vol 287 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
G T M Henehan ◽  
K F Tipton

The steady-state kinetics of purified cytoplasmic aldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.3) from human erythrocytes have been studied at 37 degrees C. Previous studies of the enzyme from several mammalian sources, which used a lower assay temperature, have been difficult to interpret because of the substrate activation by acetaldehyde which led to complex kinetic behaviour. At 37 degrees C the initial-rate data do not depart significantly from Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Studies of the variation of initial rates as a function of the concentrations of both substrates and studies of the inhibition by NADH were consistent with a sequential mechanism being followed. High-substrate inhibition by acetaldehyde was competitive with respect to NAD+. The enzyme was not inhibited by the product acetate and thus the results of these studies, although consistent with an ordered mechanism in which NAD+ was the first substrate to bind, were inconclusive. That such a mechanism was followed was confirmed by determination of the initial-rate behaviour in the presence of acetaldehyde and glycolaldehyde as alternative substrates. When the reciprocal of the initial rate of NADH formation was plotted against the acetaldehyde concentration at a series of fixed ratios between that substrate and glycolaldehyde, a linear ‘mixed inhibition’ pattern was obtained, confirming the mechanism to be ordered with NAD+ being the leading substrate and with kinetically significant ternary complex-formation.


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