scholarly journals Kinetics of tryptic hydrolysis of the arginine-valine bond in folded and unfolded ribonuclease T1

1984 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
C N Pace ◽  
A J Barrett

We have used ribonuclease T1 and its chemically modified derivatives as substrates, and trypsin as proteinase, to investigate the kinetics of proteolysis of a specific peptide bond in the folded and unfolded conformations of a protein. Steady-state kinetic studies showed that Km = 0.27 mM and Kcat. = 2.45 s-1 for the tryptic hydrolysis of the Arg(77)-Val(78) peptide bond in unfolded ribonuclease T1. This Km is somewhat lower than, and the kcat. value similar to, values found for the tryptic hydrolysis of comparable bonds in small peptides. Our data for the initial velocity of hydrolysis of the Arg(77)-Val(78) bond in a solution of the folded protein indicate that the bond is at least 1700 times less rapidly hydrolysed in the folded than in the unfolded conformation of ribonuclease T1, and do not exclude the possibility that the bond is completely resistant to hydrolysis in the folded protein.

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Christensen ◽  
H-H. Ipsen

The steady state kinetic parameters of plasmin and trypsin catalysed hydrolysis of Bz-L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, Bz-D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA and D-Val-Leu-Lys-pNA in the pH-range 6-9 are presented. Ionization of catalytically essential enzymic groups accounts satisfactorily for the pH-dependencies of the kinetic parameters for plas-rain and trypsin reactions with Bz-L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, Bz-D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA and D-Val-Leu-Lys-pNA. The protonation of the α-amino group of L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA and D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA (pK=7.0) show some additional effect. The values of the catalytic constants for plasmin and trypsin reactions with these p-nitroanilides are alike those normally found for specific ester substrates, indicating that the deacylation steps are rate determining.


1982 ◽  
Vol 207 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Itaya ◽  
Y Inoue

The kinetic mechanism of specific inhibition by Zn2+ of ribonuclease T1 catalysis was studied by steady-state kinetic analysis of transphosphorylation of dinucleotides, GpCp(3′), GpUp(2′) and GpUp(3′), and dinucleoside monophosphates, GpC and GpU. The inhibition was not simply competitive, non-competitive or uncompetitive, but the kinetic data were compatible with a mechanism of ‘fully mixed inhibition’ in which a fully non-competitive action was associated with a partially competitive action. Apparent equilibrium quotients involved in this model of inhibition were determined for the dinucleotide substrates, and we found that binding of either of Zn2+ and substrate was facilitated when the other was bound. The location of Zn2+ was suggested to be near His-40 and/or His-92 of the ribonuclease T1 molecule.


2001 ◽  
Vol 360 (3) ◽  
pp. 727-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd NIDETZKY ◽  
Christian EIS

Fungal trehalose phosphorylase is classified as a family 4 glucosyltransferase that catalyses the reversible phosphorolysis of α,α-trehalose with net retention of anomeric configuration. Glucosyl transfer to and from phosphate takes place by the partly rate-limiting interconversion of ternary enzyme–substrate complexes formed from binary enzyme–phosphate and enzyme–α-d-glucopyranosyl phosphate adducts respectively. To advance a model of the chemical mechanism of trehalose phosphorylase, we performed a steady-state kinetic study with the purified enzyme from the basidiomycete fungus Schizophyllum commune by using alternative substrates, inhibitors and combinations thereof in pairs as specific probes of substrate-binding recognition and transition-state structure. Orthovanadate is a competitive inhibitor against phosphate and α-d-glucopyranosyl phosphate, and binds 3×104-fold tighter (Ki≈ 1μM) than phosphate. Structural alterations of d-glucose at C-2 and O-5 are tolerated by the enzyme at subsite +1. They lead to parallel effects of approximately the same magnitude (slope = 1.14; r2 = 0.98) on the reciprocal catalytic efficiency for reverse glucosyl transfer [log (Km/kcat)] and the apparent affinity of orthovanadate determined in the presence of the respective glucosyl acceptor (log Ki). An adduct of orthovanadate and the nucleophile/leaving group bound at subsite +1 is therefore the true inhibitor and displays partial transition state analogy. Isofagomine binds to subsite −1 in the enzyme–phosphate complex with a dissociation constant of 56μM and inhibits trehalose phosphorylase at least 20-fold better than 1-deoxynojirimycin. The specificity of the reversible azasugars inhibitors would be explained if a positive charge developed on C-1 rather than O-5 in the proposed glucosyl cation-like transition state of the reaction. The results are discussed in the context of α-retaining glucosyltransferase mechanisms that occur with and without a β-glucosyl enzyme intermediate.


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