Erratum: Transient kinetics of chemical reactions with bounded diffusion perpendicular to the reaction coordinate: Intramolecular processes with slow conformational changes [J. Chem Phys. 78, 6947 (1983)]

1984 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 592-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Agmon ◽  
J. J. Hopfield
1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Sadar ◽  
K. J. Laidler

An experimental study has been made of the kinetics of the hydrolysis of N-methylindoxyl acetate catalyzed by electric-eel acetylcholinesterase, both in the steady state and the pre-steady state. Stopped-flow and temperature-jump experiments revealed a fast transient and a slow one. The fast transient is correlated with the conventional mechanism [Formula: see text]. The slow transient is attributed to conformational changes involving E or EA. Analysis of it revealed two exponential terms of the form e−λt, and the two λ values were obtained over the temperature range 5.0 to 25.0 °C. The results are interpreted in terms of two alternative mechanisms; in one, the enzyme undergoes a conformational change before it adds on the substrate molecule; in the other, the conformational change occurs after the substrate addition. Both mechanisms may be involved, but the results exclude a concerted mechanism in which the conformational change occurs concurrently with the addition of substrate. Kinetic parameters (ΔS≠ and E) are obtained for this conformational change and for the conversion of EA into EA′ + X.


1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-642
Author(s):  
Michal Németh ◽  
Ján Mocák

A highly efficient coulometric cell was designed and constructed, ensuring a constant potential over the whole surface of the working electrode and suitable for very rapid electrolysis. It consists of concentric cylindrical Teflon parts; also the working and auxiliary electrodes are cylindrical and concentric. Electrolysis can be carried out under anaerobic conditions. Functioning of the cell was tested on the oxidation of hexacyanoferrate(II) and chlorpromazine and reduction of hexacyanoferrate(III). The new cell is suitable for routine quantitative analyses and in studying the mechanism and kinetics of moderately rapid chemical reactions.


2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (22) ◽  
pp. 7867-7873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letif Mones ◽  
Petr Kulhánek ◽  
István Simon ◽  
Alessandro Laio ◽  
Monika Fuxreiter

Biochemistry ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (14) ◽  
pp. 3814-3820 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Biosca ◽  
F. Travers ◽  
T. E. Barman ◽  
R. Bertrand ◽  
E. Audemard ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 475-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Ehnes ◽  
Ian C. Forster ◽  
Katja Kohler ◽  
Andrea Bacconi ◽  
Gerti Stange ◽  
...  

The putative first intracellular and third extracellular linkers are known to play important roles in defining the transport properties of the type IIa Na+-coupled phosphate cotransporter (Kohler, K., I.C. Forster, G. Stange, J. Biber, and H. Murer. 2002b. J. Gen. Physiol. 120:693–705). To investigate whether other stretches that link predicted transmembrane domains are also involved, the substituted cysteine accessibility method (SCAM) was applied to sites in the predicted first and fourth extracellular linkers (ECL-1 and ECL-4). Mutants based on the wild-type (WT) backbone, with substituted novel cysteines, were expressed in Xenopus oocytes, and their function was assayed by isotope uptake and electrophysiology. Functionally important sites were identified in both linkers by exposing cells to membrane permeant and impermeant methanethiosulfonate (MTS) reagents. The cysteine modification reaction rates for sites in ECL-1 were faster than those in ECL-4, which suggested that the latter were less accessible from the extracellular medium. Generally, a finite cotransport activity remained at the end of the modification reaction. The change in activity was due to altered voltage-dependent kinetics of the Pi-dependent current. For example, cys substitution at Gly-134 in ECL-1 resulted in rate-limiting, voltage-independent cotransport activity for V ≤ −80 mV, whereas the WT exhibited a linear voltage dependency. After cys modification, this mutant displayed a supralinear voltage dependency in the same voltage range. The opposite behavior was documented for cys substitution at Met-533 in ECL-4. Modification of cysteines at two other sites in ECL-1 (Ile-136 and Phe-137) also resulted in supralinear voltage dependencies for hyperpolarizing potentials. Taken together, these findings suggest that ECL-1 and ECL-4 may not directly form part of the transport pathway, but specific sites in these linkers can interact directly or indirectly with parts of NaPi-IIa that undergo voltage-dependent conformational changes and thereby influence the voltage dependency of cotransport.


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