scholarly journals Interpretation of the Kinetics of Consecutive Enzyme-catalysed Reactions: Studies on the Arginase-Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase System

1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
RD Teasdale ◽  
PD Jeffrey ◽  
PW Kuchel ◽  
LW Nichol
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Steady State Kinetic ◽  
Kinetic Mechanisms ◽  
Heterogeneous Association ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
State Kinetic ◽  
Enzymic Assay

A method that permits the use of measurements on the concentration of the intermediate in a coupled enzymic assay in determining the presence or absence of an interaction between the enzymes is presented. The method is shown to be closely analogous to a previously formulated procedure involving the determination of the rate of production of the final product of such a sequence and is shown to be applicable regardless of the complexity of the operative kinetic mechanisms, provided it may be assumed that all enzyme-substrate complexes are in the steady-state. Kinetic results obtained with the arginase--ornithine carbamoyltransferase couple, in which the intermediate ornithine is monitored, are examined in these terms to conclude that no heterogeneous association is operative between the enzymes.

Nonlinear steady-state kinetics of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 630-634
Author(s):  
M. James C. Crabbe ◽  
Derek Goode
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase ◽  
Binding Region ◽  
Medium Effects ◽  
Acetyl Coa ◽  
Acetyl Coenzyme A ◽  
Steady State Kinetics ◽  
Steady State Kinetic ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
State Kinetic

Steady-state kinetic analysis of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase showed that medium effects (higher temperatures or pH, higher ionic strengths, or lower values for dielectric constant) altered the kinetic behaviour of the enzyme with acetyl-CoA as substrate, but did not significantly affect behaviour with chloramphenicol. This was manifest as an increase in the degree of the rate equation to a 2:2 function. This is interpreted in terms of perturbations to the enzyme at or near the acetyl-CoA binding region of the enzyme.Key words: acetyl coenzyme A, chloramphenicol, antibiotics, enzyme kinetics.

scholarly journals Resistance to inactivation by EGTA of the enzyme-substrate and enzyme-phosphate complexes of alkaline phosphatase

1987 ◽  
Vol 244 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
S J Pike ◽  
R G Duggleby
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Chelating Agent ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Steady State Kinetic ◽  
Nitrophenyl Phosphate ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
State Kinetic ◽  
Substrate Concentrations ◽  
Stability Measurements

Bovine intestinal mucosal alkaline phosphatase is inactivated by the chelating agent EGTA. Several concentrations of the enzyme were incubated with EGTA and a range of concentrations of the substrate p-nitrophenyl phosphate to determine the substrate concentration as a function of time. As predicted by a recently developed theory [Duggleby (1986) J. Theor. Biol. 123, 67-80], catalysis ceases before all substrate is exhausted. An analysis of these final substrate concentrations according to the theory revealed that, whereas the free enzyme is unstable, the effect of EGTA is counteracted when either the substrate or product (phosphate) is bound. Comparison of the results with those obtained by direct stability measurements and steady-state kinetic experiments gave a qualitatively and quantitatively consistent body of evidence in support of this interpretation.

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