scholarly journals Horseradish peroxidase. XXIX. Reactions in water and deuterium oxide: cyanide binding, compound I formation, and reactions of compounds I and II with ferrocyanide

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (22) ◽  
pp. 2844-2852 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Brian Dunford ◽  
W. Donald Hewson ◽  
Håkan Steiner

The kinetics of the reactions of hydrogen peroxide and cyanide with native horseradish peroxidase, as well as reactions of compounds I and II with ferrocyanide have been studied in ordinary water and in deuterium oxide at 25 °C and ionic strength 0.11 using a stopped-flow apparatus. Rate constants for all reactions were measured over a wide range of acidity in both solvents from which equilibrium and kinetic isotope effects were evaluated. Protonation of an ionizable group on the enzyme with a pKa value of 4.15 ± 0.05 in water inhibits the reactions with both hydrogen peroxide and cyanide. A significant kinetic isotope effect, kH/kD = 1.6 ± 0.1, was measured for compound I formation whereas no significant kinetic isotope effect was found for cyanide binding. On the basis of these findings, a partial mechanism for compound I formation is proposed in which the group of pKa 4.15 plays a crucial role. The pH dependencies of the ferrocyanide reaction in the pH interval 4.5–10.8 confirmed the role of an acid group with a pKa of 5.2 for compound I and for compound II a pKa of 8.6 and another with a value lower than that encompassed by the pH range of the study. Equilibrium isotope effects were found but no kinetic isotope effects for either the reaction of compound I or of compound II This suggests that there are no rate-limiting proton transfers in the reactions between ferrocyanide and compounds I and II of horseradish peroxidase. The only reducing substrates which exhibit positive kH/kD values possess a labile proton.

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 1305-1309 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Burchill ◽  
G. F. Thompson

By using selectively deuterated alcohols it is demonstrated that abstractions from both α and β positions of 2-propanol and ethanol contribute to the overall mechanism for the radiation-induced chain oxidation of these alcohols by hydrogen peroxide. Kinetic isotope effects are measured for abstraction of H by OH from 2-propanol and ethanol at both α and β positions and for the H atom transfer reaction from the alcohol to the β radical. The chain oxidation of methanol shows no primary kinetic isotope effect on substitution of CD3OH.


1960 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 2171-2177 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. T. Leffek ◽  
J. A. Llewellyn ◽  
R. E. Robertson

The secondary β-deuterium isotope effects have been measured in the water solvolytic reaction of alkyl halides and sulphonates for primary, secondary, and tertiary species. In every case the kinetic isotope effect was greater than unity (kH/kD > 1). This isotope effect may be associated with varying degrees of hyperconjugation or altered non-bonding intramolecular forces. The experiments make it difficult to decide which effect is most important.


1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (16) ◽  
pp. 1738-1750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Henry Werstiuk ◽  
George Timmins ◽  
Frank Peter Cappelli

A series of specifically deuterated syn-7-chloro-, anti-7-chloro-, syn-7-bromo-, and anti-7-bromo-exo-2-norbornyl brosylates have been prepared and solvolyzed in NaOAc-buffered 80:20 EtOH–H2O. For solvolysis at 25 °C the γ-kinetic isotope effects (KIE's) for syn-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (1e), anti-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (2c), syn-7-bromo-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (1f), anti-7-bromo-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d (2d), syn-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-exo,exo-5,6-d2 (1g), anti-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-exo,exo-5,6-d2 (2e) are 1.125 ± 0.007, 1.128 ± 0.005, 1.063 ± 0.008, 1.149 ± 0.020, 1.119 ± 0.011, and 1.115 ± 0.013, respectively. There is no detectable γ-kinetic isotope effect for solvolysis of anti-7-chloro-endo-2-norbornyl brosylate-endo-6-d(3a) and the β-KIE for anti-7-chloro-exo-2-norbornyl brosylate-exo-3-d(4a) is 1.111 ± 0.011. From a consideration of the possible sources of the unusually large secondary KIE's, we conclude that the exo-6-d and endo-6-d γ-KIE's likely are derived from a combination of effects rather than from participation of the C1—C6 bond in the ionization step.


1974 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Potzinger ◽  
Louis C. Glasgow ◽  
Bruno Reimann

The Reaction of Hydrogen Atoms with Silane; Arrhenius Parameters and Kinetic Isotope Effect Relative rate constants were measured for the systems H + C2H4/SiD4 and D + C2D4/SiH4 over a wide temperature range. From the known arrheniusparameter for the reaction H + C2H4 the activation energy EA and the preexponential factor A of the abstraction reactionH + SiD4 → HD + SiD3may be calculated. Values of EA = 3.2 kcal/Mol and A = 4.92 • 1013 cm3 Mol-1 sec-1 were obtained. Upper limits for the kinetic isotope effects are given in the paper


2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Chan ◽  
Ariel Tang ◽  
Andrew J. Bennet

The transition state for the hydronium-ion-promoted hydrolysis of α-d-glucopyranosyl fluoride in water has been characterized by combining multiple kinetic isotope effect measurements with theoretical modelling. The measured kinetic isotope effects for the C1-deuterium, C2-deuterium, C5-deuterium, anomeric carbon-13, and ring oxygen-18 are 1.219 ± 0.021, 1.099 ± 0.024, 0.976 ± 0.014, 1.014 ± 0.005, and 0.991 ± 0.013, respectively. The transition state for the hydronium ion reaction is late with respect to both C–F bond cleavage and proton transfer.


1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (11) ◽  
pp. 1563-1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Hubbard ◽  
H. B. Dunford ◽  
W. D. Hewson

The kinetics of reactions of horseradish peroxidase compounds I and II (HRP-I and HRP-II, respectively) with p-aminobenzoic acid have been studied in ordinary water and in deuterium oxide solution over a pH (pD) range 3–10, at 25° and at an ionic strength of 0.11. Under the conditions of the experiments the rate of reaction is first order both in substrate concentration and in enzyme concentration in both solvents. An analysis of the pH dependence of the second order rate constant in H2O confirms the presence of two acid dissociation groups on the enzyme with pKa' of 8.6 and ∼0 for HRP-II, whereas for HRP-I the data suggest a pKa of 5.1 on the enzyme and reveal, as previously shown, the influence of the ionization of the substituted ammonium group of the substrate. In deuterium oxide the pD profiles are similar to those in water but significant shifts for both kinetic and acid dissociation constants are observed for both compounds.The numerical values of the isotope effects taken together with previous results in general confirm that with labile substrates the group of pKa 8.6 in H2O on HRP-II is involved in general acid catalysis. p-Aminobenzoic acid is intermediate between labile and somewhat unreactive substrates and behaves similarly to the ferrocyanide ion in that both acid dissociation groups (pKa's 8.6 and ∼0) are influential in the catalysis of substrate oxidation by HRP-II. The kinetic isotope effect for the HRP-I reaction with p-aminobenzoic acid at high pH (pD) is consistent with a rate determining proton transfer but the group of pKa 5.1 in H2O remains unidentified.


2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 1336-1340
Author(s):  
Xicai Huang ◽  
Andrew J Bennet

The aqueous ethanolysis reactions of adamantylideneadamantyl tosylate, -bromide, and -iodide (1-OTs, 1-Br and 1-I) were monitored as a function of ionic strength. Special salt effects are observed during the solvolyses of both homoallylic halides, but not in the case of the tosylate 1-OTs. The measured α-secondary deuterium kinetic isotope effects for the solvolysis of 1-Br in 80:20 and 60:40 v/v ethanol–water mixtures at 25 °C are 1.110 ± 0.018 and 1.146 ± 0.009, respectively. The above results are consistent with the homoallylic halides reacting via a virtual transition state in which both formation and dissociation of a solvent-separated ion pair are partially rate-determining. While the corresponding transition state for adamantylideneadamantyl tosylate involves formation of the solvent-separated ion pair.Key words: salt effects, kinetic isotope effect, internal return, solvolysis, ion pairs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 10144-10151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estel Canet ◽  
Daniele Mammoli ◽  
Pavel Kadeřávek ◽  
Philippe Pelupessy ◽  
Geoffrey Bodenhausen

By monitoring the effect of deuterium decoupling on the decay of transverse 15N magnetization in D–15N spin pairs during multiple-refocusing echo sequences, we have determined fast D–D exchange rates kD and compared them with fast H–H exchange rates kH in tryptophan to determine the kinetic isotope effect as a function of pH and temperature.


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