scholarly journals THE KINETICS OF TRYPSIN DIGESTION

1924 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Northrop

1. The rate of hydrolysis of a casein solution by trypsin is not affected by the addition of gelatin. The trypsin, therefore, is not combined with the gelatin unless there is a separate enzyme for casein and for gelatin. 2. The presence of casein protects the gelatin-splitting power of trypsin from heat inactivation, and the presence of gelatin protects the casein-splitting power from heat inactivation. 3. It does not seem possible to account for both the above results by the assumption of an intermediate compound between enzyme and substrate, since, in order to account for the first result, a different enzyme must be assumed for each protein, while, to account for the second result, it must be assumed that the same enzyme attacks both.

1924 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Northrop

1. A study has been made of the rate of hydrolysis of concentrated gelatin solutions at a high temperature and with a large amount of trypsin. 2. Under these conditions the substrate concentration may be considered constant and the only variable is the decrease in the amount of trypsin owing to inactivation. 3. The theory based on the mass law predicts that under these conditions (a) the rate at any time will be proportional to the concentration of trypsin at that time; (b) the reaction should approximate a monomolecular one if the total hydrolysis observed is taken as the amount of substrate available; (c) that the velocity constant calculated in this way should agree with the constant for the decomposition of the enzyme and that it should be independent of the concentration of enzyme instead of proportional to it as is usually the case; and (d) that the total amount of substrate decomposed should be proportional to the amount of trypsin added at the beginning instead of independent of it. These results have been obtained experimentally.


1924 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-452
Author(s):  
John H. Northrop

The rate of hydrolysis of edestin by trypsin at 40° and in the presence of 1 M NaCl has been studied. Under these conditions the enzyme is rapidly inactivated and the equation for the reaction may be written See PDF for Equation in which Et is the concentration of enzyme during the interval (T1–T2). This equation has been tested by determining the enzyme concentration at various times during the reaction and substituting these values in the above equation. The experimental results agree with this formula when the initial enzyme or edestin concentrations are varied. No anomalous results of varying substrate concentrations are apparent. It can further be assumed as a first approximation that the enzyme is decomposing monomolecularly and the equation can then be written See PDF for Equation This equation is also satisfactory provided high enzyme concentrations and low edestin concentrations are used. With high concentrations of edestin and low trypsin the effects of the products of the reaction on the enzyme become too large to be neglected and the formula no longer holds.


1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1229-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Balej ◽  
Milada Thumová

The rate of hydrolysis of S2O82- ions in acidic medium to peroxomonosulphuric acid was measured at 20 and 30 °C. The composition of the starting solution corresponded to the anolyte flowing out from an electrolyser for production of this acid or its ammonium salt at various degrees of conversion and starting molar ratios of sulphuric acid to ammonium sulphate. The measured data served to calculate the rate constants at both temperatures on the basis of the earlier proposed mechanism of the hydrolysis, and their dependence on the ionic strength was studied.


1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (24) ◽  
pp. 3697-3701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton Cornelius Weekes ◽  
Thomas Wilson Swaddle

The rate of hydrolysis of iodopentaaquochromium(III) ion has been measured as a function of pressure (0.1 to 250 MPa) and hydrogen ion concentration (0.1 to 1.0 mol kg−1) at 298.2 K and ionic strength 1.0 mol kg−1 (aqueous HClO4–LiClO4). The volumes of activation for the acid independent and inversely acid dependent hydrolysis pathways are −5.4 ± 0.5 and −1.6 ± 0.3 cm3 mol−1 respectively, and are not detectably pressure-dependent. Consideration of these values, together with the molar volume change of −3.3 ± 0.3 cm3 mol−1 determined dilatometrically for the completed hydrolysis reaction, indicates that the mechanisms of the two pathways are associative interchange (Ia) and dissociative conjugate base (Dcb) respectively.


1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Keung Sze ◽  
Donald E. Irish

Raman spectroscopy has been employed to follow the relatively slow rate of hydrolysis of acetonitrile, catalyzed by mercury(II). Raman lines at 2275 and 2305 cm−1 are characteristic of CH3CN bound to Hg2+, and are distinct from lines of bulk solvent. The intensities of these new lines decrease with time. From the intensities, concentrations of bound acetonitrile, [CH3CN]B were calculated for a time span of 400 min. The data fit a second order rate law: Rate = k[CH3CN]B[H2O]. The specific rate constant, k, obtained from four sets of data for the system Hg(ClO4)2–CH3CN–H2O equals 1.05 ± 0.06 × 10−4 mol−1 1 min−1 at 25 °C. The energy of activation is 18.9 kcal mol−1. In the proposed mechanism water molecules attack acetonitrile molecules which are bound to Hg2+ and form a mercury(II)–acetamide complex. Raman lines characteristic of this species are observed. This species slowly converts to mercury(II) ammine complexes and acetic acid. Anions which coordinate with Hg2+ more strongly than CH3CN, such as nitrate or acetate, slow or prevent the hydrolysis reaction.


1962 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kunitz

Schlesinger and Coon's report that crystalline yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase, in addition to its known ability to hydrolyze inorganic pyrophosphate in the presence of Mg ions, is also able to catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP and ADP in the presence of Zn ions was confirmed. A systematic study showed that the ratio of 370 of PPase-Mg over ATPase-Zn activities per milligram protein in various preparations of pyrophosphatase obtained in the course of isolation of crystalline pyrophosphatase from baker's yeast was nearly identical in all the preparations, independent of their purity. The course of hydrolysis of ATP by crystalline pyrophosphatase in the presence of Zn was carried out with the aid of ion exchange on Dowex 1. The finding of Schlesinger and Coon that the hydrolysis proceeds from ATP to ADP and then slowly to AMP was confirmed. The kinetics of the first phase of the reaction was found to depend on the molar ratio of Zn/ATP in the reaction mixture. Mg ions in the presence of Zn ions have an accelerating effect on the rate of hydrolysis of ATP. This suggests strongly that both activities—ATPase and PPase—are manifestations of the same active group in the protein molecule of crystalline pyrophosphatase.


2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Stankovičová M. ◽  
Miháliková V. ◽  
Mezovský Ľ. ◽  
Lašáková A. ◽  
Medlenová V. ◽  
...  

AbstractIn present work, we have studied kinetics of alkaline hydrolysis of 14 compounds, which are phenylcarbamic acid derivatives with integrated N-phenylpiperazine moiety in the structure. The compounds possessed moderate antiarrhythmic and antimycobacterial activity. Their hydrolysis was carried out in an aqueous medium ethanol sodium hydroxide solution. The course of the hydrolysis was observed spectrophotometrically in visible as well as in ultraviolet regions. The pseudo-first order rate constants were calculated at several temperatures. The values of the activation energy EAwere determined by the Arrhenius equation. The rate of hydrolysis of the compounds under the study increase with the increase in temperature and it has been differentiated according to the substitution of N-phenylpiperazine as well as to the alkoxy substitution on phenyl ring.


1982 ◽  
Vol 48 (03) ◽  
pp. 257-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
H R Lijnen ◽  
M Maes ◽  
M Castel ◽  
M Samama ◽  
D Collen

SummaryAcid-treated human plasma is a competitive inhibitor of the hydrolysis of D-Val-Leu-Lys-Nan (S-2251) by plasmin. The rate of hydrolysis is decreased to 50% by 750 fold diluted acidified normal plasma and by 60 fold diluted acidified α2-antiplasmin depleted plasma (α2-antiplasmin concentration less than 2%). These findings suggest that α2-antiplasmin is a contributary but not the main competitive inhibitor of acidified plasma. This interpretation is supported by the finding that α2-antiplasmin depleted plasma reconstituted with purified α2-antiplasmin inhibits the hydrolysis of S-2251 by plasmin at a 125 fold dilution following acidification and by the finding that in a purified system acid inactivated α2-antiplasmin inhibits the hydrolysis of S-2251 by plasmin with a Ki of 25 nM. Thus, besides α2-antiplasmin, other plasma proteins which are at least in part eliminated by the removal of α2-antiplasmin from plasma by immunoadsorption appear to be competitive inhibitors for plasmin in acidified plasma. It is suggested that several competitive inhibitors for plasmin are present and/or generated in acidified plasma and that these inhibitors may at least in part be responsible for the variability in the results of measurements of plasminogen and/or plasmin in plasma following acidification.


1974 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth V. Shooter ◽  
Ruth Howse ◽  
R. Kenneth Merrifield

The extent of biological inactivation and of the degradation of the RNA after reaction of bacteriophage R17 with ethyl methanesulphonate, isopropyl methanesulphonate and N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea was studied. Formation of breaks in the RNA chain probably results from hydrolysis of phosphotriesters formed in the alkylation reactions. Near neutral pH the ethyl and isopropyl phosphotriesters are sufficiently stable for the kinetics of the hydrolysis reaction to be followed. Results indicate that the rate of hydrolysis increases rapidly as the pH is raised. The evidence shows that a phosphotriester group does not itself constitute a lethal lesion. The extent of phosphotriester formation by the different agents is discussed in terms of reaction mechanism.


1922 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 487-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Northrop

1. The velocity of hydrolysis of gelatin by trypsin increases more slowly than the gelatin concentration and finally becomes nearly independent of the gelatin concentration. The relative velocity of hydrolysis of any two substrate concentrations is independent of the quantity of enzyme used to make the comparison. 2. The rate of hydrolysis is independent of the viscosity of the solution. 3. The percentage retardation of the rate of hydrolysis by inhibiting substances, is independent of the substrate concentration. 4. There is experimental evidence that the enzyme and inhibiting substance are combined to form a widely dissociated compound. 5. If the substrate were also combined with the enzyme, an increase in the substrate concentration should affect the equilibrium between the enzyme and the inhibiting substance. This is not the case. 6. The rate of digestion of a mixture of casein and gelatin is equal to the sum of the rates of hydrolysis of the two substances alone, as it should be if the rate is proportional to the concentration of free enzyme. This contradicts the saturation hypothesis. 7. If the reaction is followed by determining directly the change in the substrate concentration, it is found that this change agrees with the law of mass action; i.e., the rate of digestion is proportional to the substrate concentration.


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