醋酸酐对太平洋白对虾(Penaeus vannamei)β-N-乙酰- D-氨基葡萄糖苷酶的抑制动力学

β-N-乙酰-D-氨基葡萄糖苷酶与南美白对虾的食物消化吸收、蜕壳生长有着密切关系. 海水里存在的有机污染物将影响酶生理功能, 从而进一步影响虾的正常蜕壳,严重将导致对虾的死亡. 醋酸酐是常用的有机溶剂, 故本文应用动力学方法研究醋酸酐对南美白对虾β-N-乙酰-D-氨基葡萄糖苷酶催化pNP-NAG水解时酶活力的变化规律. 表明在醋酸酐浓度低于20.0 mmol/L, 酶的抑制作用是可逆的, 测得醋酸酐对酶抑制的IC50为9.0 mmol/L. 用双倒数作图法测定醋酸酐与游离酶(E)和酶-底物络合物(ES)的结合平衡常数, 结果显示醋酸酐是酶的非竞争性抑制剂. 用底物反应动力学方法观测在不同底物浓度下酶在0.0、3.0、6.0、9.0、12.0 mmol/L的醋酸酐溶液中的失活过程,分别测定了酶的微观失活速度常数k+0及复活速度常数k-0, 结果表明醋酸酐对酶的影响是快速结合再缓慢失活的过程. 比较微观失活速度常数k+0及复活速度常数k-0, 结果暗示在高浓度的醋酸酐溶液中, 酶将完全失活.     

半理性改造提升细菌漆酶Lac15的催化活性

[目的]漆酶可氧化各种底物,在多个工业领域有很好的潜在应用价值.Lac15是一种微生物漆酶,已表现出可观的应用潜能,可望通过蛋白质工程改造提升和拓展其应用.[方法]通过基于结构分析的半理性改造策略,选取推测与电子/质子转移或底物结合直接或间接相关的位点进行定点突变,并测定突变酶对各种底物的活性及酶学性质.[结果]部分突...     

二氢叶酸还原酶结合底物的去除

分析了应用氨甲蝶呤（MTX-Agarose）亲和层析法提纯的鸡肝二氢叶酸还原酶的组成和性质.建立了用平面粒度胶等电聚焦法去除与酶紧密结合底物的方法．讨论了结合底物对酶构象研究的影响,并指出,用未完全去除结合底物的酶研究酶在变性过程构象变化会得到错误的结论．     

OPTA对乳酸脱氢酶的抑制动力学

邹承鲁建立的酶活性不可逆改变动力学理论已为实验所验证,它不仅适用于单底物酶的抑制和激活的动力学研究,而且也适用于双底物酶反应系统.但在双底物酶反应系统中,底物和酶的结合方式有四种机制,即随机机制、有序机制、强制有序机制和乒乓机制,迄今为止这一动力学方法仅对随机机制的肌酸激酶进行了实验研究.而其它机制的实验研究尚未见诸报道.我们选用了有序机制的乳酸脱氢酶(LDH),用邻苯二甲醛(OPTA)为抑制剂对该酶的抑制过程进行了实验研究.结果表明,OPTA对该酶的抑制为不可逆抑制.其产物生成与时间的关系曲线符合邹氏方程:[P]=[P]_x(1-e~(-A[OPTA]).由ln([P]_x-[P])对t作图为一直线,表明它的抑制作用为单相动力学过程,抑制剂与酶的结合为一步反应.由直线的斜率A[OPTA]对[OPTA]作图为一过原点的直线.说明表观速度常数A与OPTA的浓度无关.OPTA与酶的结合为非络合型.测得的OPTA与EE-NADH结合的微观速度常数分别为:K(?)=49.6(mmol L)~(-1)min,(?)=2.31(mmol L)min~(-1)(?).明显小于(?)的事实表明.NADH对失活有明显的保护作用.OPTA是一个竞争性的不可逆抑制剂.用传统的方法测得的(?)为42.5(mmol L)min~(-1).与邹氏方法测得的结果非常接近.     

太平洋白对虾(Penaeus vannamei)β-N-乙酰-D-氨基葡萄糖苷酶在二甲亚砜溶液中的失活动力学(英文)

应用动力学方法研究了太平洋白对虾(Penaeusvannamei)β-N-乙酰-D-氨基葡萄糖苷酶在二甲亚砜溶液中以pNP-β-D-GlcNAc为底物时酶活力的变化规律.表明酶在DMSO浓度低于4.20mol/L,酶的失活过程是可逆的,DMSO并不造成酶绝对量的减少,仅对酶的活力发生可逆的下降.测得DMSO对酶抑制的IC50为1.2mol/L.观测了在不同底物浓度下NAGase在0、0.35、0.70、1.05、1.40、1.75mol/L的DMSO溶液中的失活过程,分别测定了游离酶(E)和酶-底物络合物(ES)的微观失活速度常数k+0和k′+0比较结果(k+0值远远大于k′+0)表明,在DMSO溶液中游离酶比酶-底物络合物更易失活,即底物的存在对于酶被DMSO的失活具有明显的保护作用.随着DMSO浓度的增加,游离酶的逆向微观复活速度常数k-0却不断降低,说明在高浓度DMSO环境中,NAGase可逆恢复的能力逐渐微弱.     

底物对变性酶的修复作用

 兎肌肌酸激酶被LDS变性后,底物能够诱导变性酶使其活力和构象得到部分恢复。变性程度不同的酶,构象和活力的恢复程度也不同:低浓度LDS变性酶,恢复程度较高;反之亦然。活力的恢复与构象的恢复两者呈对应关系。底物修复作用的pH以8.2为好。底物修复作用受其它蛋白质(例如BSA)存在的影响。等速电泳结果表明,BSA能竞争性结合LDS-酶复合物的LDS,使酶成为游离酶。变性酶先与BSA保温再加底物所得的活力恢复,大约是变性酶与含BSA的底物保温所得活力的10倍。这一结果似表明LDS变性酶仍能结合底物;被结合的底物还能使变性酶的构象发生变化。     

利用荧光素酶生物发光体系测定Mg~(2+)-ATP酶结合和水解活性

本文应用LKB公司的ATP测液建立了Mg~(2 )-ATP酶的ATP结合及水解活性的测定方法;利用国产荧光素酶粗品在连串反应体系中建立测定Mg~(2 )-ATP酶结合活性的方法,并与水解活性相比较.对Mg~(2 )-ATP酶的去脂样品,Mg~(2 )-ATP酶与卵磷脂复合物以及微粒体样所做的测定表明,上述两种方法是可靠、简便的,尤其是利用国产荧光素酶粗品建立的ATP结合活性的测定方法,能避免水解对结合活性测定的干扰,刘其它的酶-底物的结合研究有参考价值.     

细胞色素P450BM3催化正十六烷动力学计算

细胞色素P450 BM3作为烷烃羟基化酶,能催化正链烷烃,已被广发研究和应用.利用动力学模拟软件对BM3酶与烷烃底物复合物进行构象、酶的活性位点以及结合能的预测,并通过模拟水以及离子环境下对复合物的影响,从能量及构象位移的角度阐述BM3酶与底物结合的机理,从而用分子动力学观点来解释细胞色素P450催化烷烃机理.用Auto dock等软件将BM3与十六烷对接,发现底物C16与铁原子间距为7.57 ?,并发现与底物结合的活性位点关键残基:ALA 330,ALA 74,SER 72,GLN 73,ALA328,LEU 188,LEU 437.经Gromacs动力学模拟步长为1 ns,温度在298 K,压力为常压1.0,复合物结合稳定.     

人类线粒体肌酸激酶uMtCK的底物结合位点分析

研究人类线粒体肌酸激酶u Mt CK的结合位点,将其与底物肌酸和ATP结合有关的关键氨基酸进行突变,并对突变体进行酶动力学和圆二色谱数据分析,探讨这些关键氨基酸在底物识别和催化过程中的作用。结果显示,与野生酶相比,突变体Q313A和R336A的K_m~(Cr)分别提高了2.6和2.9倍,k_(cat)下降了19%和55%;同样地,与ATP结合相关的突变体R125A和R287A分别使得K_m~(ATP)升高了3.2和4.2,k_(cat)下降了72%和38%。以上结果表明突变体R125A、R287A、Q313A和R336A影响对底物的结合,同时也降低了酶促反应的速度。利用圆二色谱比较野生酶与不同突变体的二级结构并无明显变化,但进一步的结构模拟表明底物结合位点氨基酸在与底物之间的氢键对底物的识别和酶催化过程中发挥着重要作用。     

探讨酶的记忆

酶是否具有对其反应底物形成记忆是一个值得探讨的问题。在底物与酶相互作用中,底物诱导酶产生与其互补结合的构象,其构象的稳定性,决定了酶对底物的高度选择性。尽管某种酶能够与多个底物Sn(n=1,2,3…)发生反应,但如果酶先与S1反应,则酶将降低对S2、S3等底物的选择性,反之亦然。这似乎是酶(蛋白质)与底物S1作用后,对S1形成了记忆。     

Evidence that the catalytic and regulatory functions of carbamylphosphate synthetase from Escherichia coli are not dependent on oligomer formation.

Carbamyl-phosphate synthetase from Escherichia coli is an allosteric enzyme which undergoes reversible association reactions in phosphate buffer. The positive allosteric effectors, ornithine, inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP), and ammonia, facilitate oligomer formation, whereas uridine 5'-monophosphate (UMP), a negative effector, prevents or decreases oligomer formation. When the enzyme is immobilized by reaction with activated Sepharose, under conditions where the enzyme exists only as a monomer, nearly full catalytic activity is retained and the effects of ornithine, IMP, and UMP on the catalytic activity as a function of MgATP concentration are not significantly altered. Gel-filtration chromatography on Sephadex G-200 of catalytic quantities of the enzyme in the presence of all substrates showed that the elution volume was the same as that measured for the enzyme under conditions where it is known to exist in the monomer form. The specific activity of the enzyme does not increase when the concentration of the enzyme is increased 100-fold from a concentration at which the enzyme exists as monomer to a level at which the enzyme exists predominantly as oligomer. These results indicate that the monomer form of the enzyme is the principle active species and that oligomer formation is not directly related to enzyme activity or enzyme regulation.     

Sulfhydryl groups of yeast phosphofructokinase-specific localization on beta subunits of fructose 6-phosphate binding sites as demonstrated by a differential chemical labeling study

Yeast phosphofructokinase contains 83 +/- 2 cysteinyl residues/enzyme oligomer. On the basis of their reactivity toward 5,5-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid), the accessible cysteinyl residues of the native enzyme may be classified into three groups. For titrations performed with N-ethylmaleimide, subdivisional classes of reactivity are evidenced. In each case, the 6 to 8 most reactive cysteines are not protected by fructose 6-phosphate from chemical labeling and do not seem involved in subsequent enzyme inactivation. Differential labeling studies as well as direct protection experiments in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate, indicate that 12 -SH groups/enzyme oligomer (i.e. three -SH groups per binding site) are protected by the allosteric substrate from the chemical modification. Specific labeling by the differential method of the cysteinyl residues protected by fructose 6-phosphate and further separation of the two types of subunits constituting yeast phosphofructokinase, show that the substrate binding sites are localized exclusively on subunits of beta type. Thus, alpha subunits are not implicated directly in the catalytic mechanism of yeast phosphofructokinase reaction.     

The theoretical analysis of kinetic behaviour of “hysteretic” allosteric enzymes. II. The dissociating and associating enzymic systems in which the rate of installation of equilibrium between the oligomeric forms is small in comparison with that of enzymatic reaction

The present paper is concerned with the specificities of kinetic behaviour of dissociating enzyme systems where the equilibrium between oligomeric forms installs rather slowly in comparison with the rate of enzymatic reaction. In the slowly dissociating enzyme systems of the type Np ? P (P is enzyme oligomer and p is a subunit; N ? 2) in which the forms P and p exhibit different allosteric interactions between active and allosteric sites the initial rate of enzymatic reaction (v) versus the substrate concentration (S) or the effector concentration (F) were shown to be of rather complex pattern. In similar systems the v versus [S]₀ plots may show an intermediate plateau, maximum and minimum simultaneously, an intermediate plateau and its preceding S-shape, etc., as well as v versus [F]₀ may show an intermediate plateau.     

Dissipative Structures for an Allosteric Model: Application to Glycolytic Oscillations

An allosteric model of an open monosubstrate enzyme reaction is analyzed for the case where the enzyme, containing two protomers, is activated by the product. It is shown that this system can lead to instabilities beyond which a new state organized in time or in space (dissipative structure) can be reached. The conditions for both types of instabilities are presented and the occurrence of a temporal structure, consisting of a limit cycle behavior, is determined numerically as a function of the important parameters involved in the system. Sustained oscillations in the product and substrate concentrations are shown to occur for acceptable values of the allosteric and kinetic constants; moreover, they seem to be favored by substrate activation. The model is applied to phosphofructokinase, which is the enzyme chiefly responsible for glycolytic oscillations and which presents the same pattern of regulation as the allosteric enzyme appearing in the model. A qualitative and quantitative agreement is obtained with the experimental observations concerning glycolytic self-oscillations.     

The enzyme activity allosteric regulation model based on the composite nature of catalytic and regulatory sites concept

A new kinetic model of enzymatic catalysis is proposed, which postulates that enzyme solutions are equilibrium systems of oligomers differing in the number of subunits and in the mode of their assembly. It is suggested that the catalytic and regulatory sites of allosteric enzymes are of composite nature and appear as a result of subunits joining. Two possible joining modes are postulated at each oligomerization step. Catalytic site may arise on oligomer formed only by one of these modes. Effector acts by fastening together components of certain oligomeric form and increases the life time of this form. It leads to a shift of oligomer equilibrium and increases a proportion of effector-binding oligomers. Effectors-activators bind the oligomers carrying composite catalytic sites and effectors-inhibitors bind the oligomers, which do not carry active catalytic sites. Thus, catalytic activity control in such system is explained by effector-induced changes of a catalytic sites number, but not of a catalytic site activity caused by changes of subunit's tertiary structure. The postulates of the model do not contradict available experimental data and lead to a new type of general rate equation, which allows to describe and understand the specific kinetic behavior of allosteric enzymes as well as Michaelis type enzymes. All known rate equations of allosteric The equation was tested by modeling the kinetics of human erythrocyte phosphofructokinase. It enabled to reproduce quantitatively the 66 kinetic curves experimentally obtained for this enzyme under different reaction conditions.     

Solution X-ray scattering studies of the yeast phosphofructokinase allosteric transition. Characterization of an ATP-induced conformation distinct in quaternary structure from the R and T states of the enzyme

The allosteric transition of yeast phosphofructokinase has been studied by solution x-ray scattering. The scattering curves corresponding to the native enzyme (T conformation) were found to be similar to the curves recorded in the presence of saturating concentrations of fructose 6-phosphate (R conformation) or AMP (R or R' conformation). However, the curves obtained in the presence of ATP are clearly different: the radius of gyration increases and the secondary minima and maxima are systematically shifted to lower angles, suggesting a swelling of the enzyme in the presence of ATP. These results give the first direct evidence for the existence of an ATP-induced T' conformation, distinct in quaternary structure from the R and T states of the enzyme oligomer, in agreement with our previous modeling of yeast phosphofructokinase regulation. X-ray scattering data are discussed in relation to the distinct molecular mechanisms of the ATP and fructose 6-phosphate allosteric effects involving, respectively, sequential and concerted conformational changes of the enzyme oligomer.     

The regulatory design of an allosteric feedback loop: the effect of saturation by pathway substrate

Aspects of metabolic regulation can be fruitfully studied with a combination of generic modelling, control analysis and graphical analysis using rate characteristics. This paper analyses a prototypical supply-demand system consisting of a biosynthetic subsystem subject to allosteric inhibition by its product and a demand process that consumes this product. The effect of changes in affinity of the committing supply enzyme for the pathway substrate on the regulatory properties of the supply subsystem is compared for the Monod-Wyman-Changeux and the reversible Hill allosteric enzyme models. We found that the Hill model has a distinct advantage in that the steady-state concentration at which it maintains the product is set by the half-saturating product concentration and is independent of changes in the degree of saturation for substrate. In contrast, with the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model this set point varies with affinity for substrate. Explicitly incorporating reversibility in all rate equations made it possible to distinguish between kinetic and thermodynamic aspects of regulation. Combining the supply and demand rate characteristics allows us to explore both the control distribution at steady state and the regulatory performance of the system over a wide range of demand activities.     

The Enzyme Activity Allosteric Regulation Model Based on the Composite Nature of Catalytic and Regulatory Sites Concept

Abstract

A new kinetic model of enzymatic catalysis is proposed, which postulates that enzyme solutions are equilibrium systems of oligomers differing in the number of subunits and in the mode of their assembly. It is suggested that the catalytic and regulatory sites of allosteric enzymes are of composite nature and appear as a result of subunits joining. Two possible joining modes are postulated at each oligomerization step. Catalytic site may arise on oligomer formed only by one of these modes. Effector acts by fastening together components of certain oligomeric form and increases the life time of this form. It leads to a shift of oligomer equilibrium and increases a proportion of effector-binding oligomers. Effectors-activators bind the oligomers carrying composite catalytic sites and effectors-inhibitors bind the oligomers, which do not carry active catalytic sites. Thus, catalytic activity control in such system is explained by effector-induced changes of a catalytic sites number, but not of a catalytic site activity caused by changes of subunit's tertiary structure.

The postulates of the model do not contradict available experimental data and lead to a new type of general rate equation, which allows to describe and understand the specific kinetic behavior of allosteric enzymes as well as Michaelis type enzymes. All known rate equations of allosteric

The equation was tested by modeling the kinetics of human erythrocyte phosphofructokinase. It enabled to reproduce quantitatively the 66 kinetic curves experimentally obtained for this enzyme under different reaction conditions.     

THE APPEARANCE OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN THE MYOTOME OF THE EMBRYONIC RABBIT : An Electron Microscope Cytochemical and Biochemical Study

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity has been studied in the myoblast of skeletal muscle of the 9–13 day fetal rabbit. Cytochemical activity is present in the nuclear envelope and the endoplasmic reticulum, including its derivatives the subsurface reticulum and the sarcoplasmic reticulum. End product is also found in the Golgi complex of the more differentiated myoblasts. The formation of reticulum-bound acetylcholinesterase in the myoblast appears to be independent of nerve-muscle contact, since the enzyme is present before the outgrowth of the spinal nerve. The nerve lacks cytochemical end product until the myoblast is well differentiated. Possible mechanisms of spontaneous muscle contraction have been discussed. A second type of myotomal cell, which exhibits a poorly localized end product of AChE activity, has been described. The ready solubility of the enzyme or diffusibility of its end product suggests that the enzyme may be a lyoesterase. This cell may be the precursor of the morphologically undifferentiated cell which is closely apposed to the myotubes in later stages of skeletal muscle development. Biochemical studies show a significant increase in AChE activity in the dermomyotome by day 12, when many of the myoblasts are well differentiated and the second type of myotomal cell is prominent. Cytochemical studies have indicated that many of the cells in the sample lack reaction product of enzymic activity, whereas others are very active. Biochemical values, therefore, reflect the amount of enzyme in the dermomyotome as a whole, but give little information on the enzymic content of individual cells.     

The steady-state kinetics of isotope exchange for one substrate–one product enzymic reactions

Steady-state kinetic equations for isotope exchange are derived for a number of one substrate-one product enzymic mechanisms in which two molecules of substrate or product can be combined with an enzyme molecule at the one time (e.g. allosteric mechanisms). The usual assumption, that the radioactive material is distributed among the substrate and product components according to a first-order law, is not valid. One can recognize whether isotope-exchange kinetics of an enzyme reaction follows first-order behaviour by using various initial concentrations of the labelled substance added to a mixture.