scholarly journals Kinetic characterization of the acyl-enzyme mechanism for β-lactamase I

1988 ◽  
Vol 254 (3) ◽  
pp. 923-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
M T Martin ◽  
S G Waley

beta-Lactamase I catalyses the hydrolysis of penicillins by an acyl-enzyme mechanism. A procedure was developed for determining the rate constants for the acylation and deacylation steps for the good substrates benzylpenicillin and phenoxymethylpenicillin; this depends on determining the fraction of enzyme that is present as acyl-enzyme in the steady state.

1990 ◽  
Vol 272 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
R M Gibson ◽  
H Christensen ◽  
S G Waley

Two single mutants and the corresponding double mutant of beta-lactamase I from Bacillus cereus 569/H were constructed and their kinetics investigated. The mutants have Lys-73 replaced by arginine (K73R), or Glu-166 replaced by aspartic acid (E166D), or both (K73R + E166D). All four rate constants in the acyl-enzyme mechanism were determined for the E166D mutant by the methods described by Christensen, Martin & Waley [(1990) Biochem. J. 266, 853-861]. Both the rate constants for acylation and deacylation for the hydrolysis of benzylpenicillin were decreased about 2000-fold in this mutant. In the K73R mutant, and in the double mutant, the rate constants for acylation were decreased about 100-fold and 10,000-fold respectively. All three mutants also had lowered values for the rate constants for the formation and dissociation of the non-covalent enzyme-substrate complex. The specificities of the mutants did not differ greatly from those of wild-type beta-lactamase, but the hydrolysis of cephalosporin C by the K73R mutant gave ‘burst’ kinetics.


1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-571
Author(s):  
Lewis J. Brubacher

Equations are developed for the pre-steady state kinetics of the proteolytic enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of a substrate A in the presence of a monitoring substrate (or covalent inhibitor) S of known properties. A two-intermediate acyl–enzyme mechanism is assumed in which the first intermediate is in instantaneous equilibrium with enzyme and substrate. The appearance of the first product of substrate S is characterized by two relaxation rate constants. From these constants it is possible to determine the dissociation constant and the acylation and deacylation rate constants of substrate A. Criteria are also developed for using the steady state rate parameters of A to establish conditions for which the slower relaxation process is equivalent to the deacylation rate constant of A. The technique of premixing enzyme with substrate A has certain advantages in this approach.


1996 ◽  
Vol 132 (6) ◽  
pp. 1053-1060 ◽  
Author(s):  
E M Ostap ◽  
T D Pollard

Acanthamoeba myosin-IA and myosin-IB are single-headed molecular motors that may play an important role in membrane-based motility. To better define the types of motility that myosin-IA and myosin IB can support, we determined the rate constants for key steps on the myosin-I ATPase pathway using fluorescence stopped-flow, cold-chase, and rapid-quench techniques. We determined the rate constants for ATP binding, ATP hydrolysis, actomyosin-I dissociation, phosphate release, and ADP release. We also determined equilibrium constants for myosin-I binding to actin filaments, ADP binding to actomyosin-I, and ATP hydrolysis. These rate constants define an ATPase mechanism in which (a) ATP rapidly dissociates actomyosin-I, (b) the predominant steady-state intermediates are in a rapid equilibrium between actin-bound and free states, (c) phosphate release is rate limiting and regulated by heavy-chain phosphorylation, and (d) ADP release is fast. Thus, during steady-state ATP hydrolysis, myosin-I is weakly bound to the actin filament like skeletal muscle myosin-II and unlike the microtubule-based motor kinesin. Therefore, for myosin-I to support processive motility or cortical contraction, multiple myosin-I molecules must be specifically localized to a small region on a membrane or in the actin-rich cell cortex. This conclusion has important implications for the regulation of myosin-I via localization through the unique myosin-I tails. This is the first complete transient kinetic characterization of a member of the myosin superfamily, other than myosin-II, providing the opportunity to obtain insights about the evolution of all myosin isoforms.


1993 ◽  
Vol 289 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Mossakowska ◽  
J Moraczewska ◽  
S Khaitlina ◽  
H Strzelecka-Golaszewska

Homogeneous preparations of actin devoid of the three C-terminal residues were obtained by digestion of G-actin with trypsin after blocking proteolysis at other sites by substitution of Mg2+ for the tightly bound Ca2+. Removal of the C-terminal residues resulted in the following: an enhancement of the Mg(2+)-induced hydrolysis of ATP in low-ionic-strength solutions of actin; an increase in the critical concentration for polymerization; a decrease in the initial rate of polymerization; and an enhancement of the steady-state exchange of subunits in the polymer. Electron microscopy indicated an increased fragility of the filaments assembled from truncated actin. The results suggest that removal of the C-terminal residues increases the rate constants for monomer dissociation from the polymer ends and from the oligomeric species.


2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 1097-1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Salami ◽  
Reza Yousefi ◽  
Mohammad Reza Ehsani ◽  
Michèle Dalgalarrondo ◽  
Jean-Marc Chobert ◽  
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Biochemistry ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (25) ◽  
pp. 8094-8101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangwei Yang ◽  
T.-C. Lin ◽  
J. Karam ◽  
W. H. Konigsberg

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