米曲霉GX0011β-果糖基转移酶的化学修饰及活性中心研究

用化学修饰法及其修饰动力学对米曲霉GX0011β-果糖基转移酶的活性中心结构进行了研究。结果表明：NBS、PMSF、EDC能显著抑制酶的活性,底物对这些抑制有明显的保护作用,且残留酶活与修饰剂的浓度相关,抑制均符合拟一级动力学规律,进一步动力学分析,初步认定该酶活性中心包括至少一个丝氨酸（或苏氨酸）、一个色氨酸和一个天冬氨酸(或谷氨酸)残基。pCMB、TNBS能显著抑制酶的活性,但底物对抑制无明显保护作用,推断半胱氨酸和赖氨酸残基可能与维系酶活性中心构象有关,但不是酶活性中心基团。DEPC、AA和NAI对酶的活性抑制作用不明显,排除了组氨酸、精氨酸和酪氨酸残基是该酶活性中心必需基团的可能。     

乙醇对F_1-ATP酶和H~+-ATP酶的抑制与其核苷酸结合位点状态的关系

 本文利用动力学方法研究了乙醇对F_1-ATP酶和H~(+)-ATP酶复合体的抑制与其结合核苷酸位点状态的关系,结果表明天然情况下乙醇对F_1呈现反竞争性抑制类型,对H~(+)-ATP酶呈现非竞争性抑制类型,且乙醇对F_1和H~(+)-ATP酶的抑制与核苷酸结合位点的构象密切相关。游离状态下和膜结合状态下的F_1在部分结合的核苷酸被洗脱前后动力学行为的不同,反映了二种状态下的F_1具有不同的构象,且F_0和膜脂对F_1起着一定的调控作用。     

米曲霉GX0011β-糖基转移酶的化学修饰及活性中心研究

用化学修饰法及其修饰动力学对米曲霉GX0011β-果糖基转移酶的活性中心结构进行了研究。结果表明：NBS、PMSF、EDC能显著抑制酶的活性,底物对这些抑制有明显的保护作用,且残留酶活与修饰剂的浓度相关,抑制均符合拟一级动力学规律,进一步动力学分析,初步认定该酶活性中心包括至少一个丝氨酸（或苏氨酸）、一个色氨酸和一个天冬氨酸（或谷氨酸）残基。pCMB、TNBS能显著抑制酶的活性,但底物对抑制无明显保护作用,推断半胱氨酸和赖氨酸残基可能与维系酶活性中心构象有关,但不是酶活性中心基团。DEPC、AA和NAI对酶的活性抑制作用不明显,排除了组氨酸、精氨酸和酪氨酸残基是该酶活性中心必需基团的可能。     

化学抑制剂Woodward's Reagent K对来源于Erwinia rhapontici NX-5蔗糖异构酶的抑制动力学

从重组大肠杆菌E.coli BL21(p ET22b-palⅠ)中纯化得到来源于Erwinia rhapontici NX-5的蔗糖异构酶(sucrose isomerase,SIase,EC 5.4.99.11),以纯酶为对象考察其酶活力抑制动力学。结果表明:SIase纯比酶活1 512.77 U/mg,动力学常数Km=260 mmol/L,Vmax=39.41μmol/(L·s)。以化学抑制剂Woodward's Reagent K(WRK)对重组蔗糖异构酶进行抑制反应,反应体系中随着WRK浓度的升高,SIase与底物蔗糖的亲和力常数Km增大,最大反应速度Vmax在一定范围内保持稳定。通过对SIase的抑制动力学分析可得到,WRK对SIase的抑制类型为可逆的竞争性抑制,这可能与WRK与蔗糖的结构类似,与可竞争性的结合SIase的活性中心有关。     

人直肠癌β-葡糖苷酶同工酶的动力学研究

 本文对人直肠癌及癌旁组织(对照)的β-葡糖苷酶同工酶的分离、底物动力学和某些物质的影响做了初步探索。结果表明:在这两种组织中分别存在三种同工酶。一种是胞液酶,Km值为1.18mmol/L(对照为1.13mmol/L),受NaCl和抗癌药WB非竞争性抑制;第二种是溶酶休可溶性酶,Km值为2.38mmol/L(对照为2.94mmol/L),不受NaCl影响,受WB的混合型抑制,直肠癌此酶受顺铂的竞争性抑制;第三种是溶酶体膜结合酶,受NaCl激活,使底物动力学由负协同性酶变为米氏酶。肿瘤组织中三种同工酶活性均高于癌旁组织中相应的酶活性。     

亲和标签调节的 (S)-羰基还原酶2催化2-羟基苯乙酮的酶学性质

不同类型的亲和标签会影响酶的催化功能和酶学性质。近平滑假丝酵母Candida parapsilosis来源的(S)-羰基还原酶2 ((S)-carbonyl reductase 2,SCR2) 能催化2-羟基苯乙酮。文中在SCR2的N端添加不同类型的亲和标签,在大肠杆菌Escherichia coli中异源表达并纯化重组蛋白his6-SCR2、strep-SCR2和MBP-SCR2,研究了重组蛋白催化2-羟基苯乙酮的酶学性质。结果表明,不同类型的亲和标签对SCR2的酶学性质有一定的影响。其中,不同类型的亲和标签对重组蛋白稳定性影响较大：1) 在pH 6.0、30 ℃条件下保温13 h后,重组蛋白his6-SCR2和strep-SCR2的剩余酶活力是无融合标签SCR2的90.0%?95.2%,而MBP-SCR2的剩余酶活力是无融合标签SCR2的1.25倍。2) MBP-SCR2在50 ℃的半衰期比strep-SCR2、his6-SCR2和无融合标签SCR2长26.6%–48.8%。3) MBP-SCR2在?80 ℃存储60 d后,其酶活动力学参数kcat比his6-SCR2、strep-SCR2和无融合标签SCR2高1.25–1.45倍。根据三级结构分析推出重组蛋白MBP-SCR2中MBP的C末端的α螺旋具有稳定SCR2的N端无规则卷曲的作用,从而提高酶的稳定性。圆二色谱检测结果表明MBP标签对蛋白SCR2的二级结构有一定的影响,且解折叠温度 (Tm) 分析证明,MBP-SCR2的Tm比无融合标签SCR2提高近5 ℃。研究结果不仅为羰基还原酶家族增添了一种2-羟基苯乙酮的稳定高效催化剂MBP-SCR2,同时为其他短链醇脱氢酶的标签设计提供了借鉴和依据。     

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.     

三种双季铵化合物对乙酰胆碱酯酶梭曼膦酰化和老化的影响

本文研究了六甲溴铵(C_6)、十甲溴铵(C_(10))和百草枯(paraquat或PQ)对电鳐电器官乙酰胆碱酯酶的作用。C_6是酶的完全竞争性抑制剂,它对梭曼膦酰化酶的老化反应有明显的延缓作用;C_(10)对酶的抑制分为两相,A相为完全竞争性抑制,B相为混合型抑制,它对老化只有轻微的延缓作用;PQ为酶的激活剂,而它对老化几乎无影响。概据这些结果可以设想,酶的活性区域的阴离子部位在梭曼膦酰化乙酰胆碱酯酶的老化中起重要作用。     

铁皮石斛甘露糖结合凝聚素的分子建模与对接研究

本文通过序列分析获得了铁皮石斛甘露糖结合凝聚素(Dendrobium officinale mannose-binding lectin,DOL)成熟肽和甘露糖结合位点(50-58AA,81-89AA,116-124AA)。通过同源建模建立了DOL三维结构模型,DOL呈中空的三棱柱结构,三棱柱的三个侧面主要由β折叠构成,三个侧面各有一个甘露糖结合部位。甘露糖与DOL的分子对接和动力学分析表明,结合位点50-58AA和81-89AA对甘露糖的结合要强于116-124AA,在与甘露糖结合的过程中发挥关键作用的氨基酸残基为Gln81,Asp83,Asn85和Tyr89。研究结果有助于进一步开展凝集素抗病机理及凝集素相关药物研究。     

固定化细胞的混合糖连续发酵动力学模型

利用固定化啤酒酵母和固定化毕赤酵母在两个串联的固定床内连续发酵由葡萄糖和木糖组成的混合糖制取酒精的过程,建立了连续发酵的非结构动力学模型。该模型以带抑制项的米氏动力学方程为酶动力学基础,考虑了抑制物抑制、底物抑制、轴向弥散及膜传质等因素。成功地引入了一个综合考虑颗粒相内外传质的总有效因子简化模型的计算,并取得了较为满意的仿真结果。     

Rapid reduction of cytochrome c1 in the presence of antimycin and its implication for the mechanism of electron transfer in the cytochrome b-c1 segment of the mitochondrial respiratory chain

Antimycin, a specific and highly potent inhibitor of electron transfer in the cytochrome b-c1 segment of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, does not inhibit reduction of cytochrome c1 by succinate in isolated succinate-cytochrome c reductase complex under conditions where the respiratory chain complex undergoes one oxidation-reduction turnover. If a slight molar excess of cytochrome c is added to the isolated reductase complex in the presence of antimycin, there is rapid reduction of one equivalent of c type cytochrome by succinate, after which reduction of the remaining c type cytochrome is inhibited. Antimycin fully inhibits succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity of isolated succinate-cytochrome c reductase complex in which the b-c1 complex undergoes multiple turnovers in a catalytic fashion. In addition, when antimycin is added to isolated reductase complex in the presence of cytochrome c plus cytochrome c oxidase, the inhibitor causes a "crossover" in the steady state level of reduction of the cytochromes b and c1 comparable to this classical effect in mitochondria. On the basis of these results, it is suggested that linear schemes of electron transfer are not adequate to account for the site of antimycin inhibition and the mechanism of electron transfer in the cytochrome b-c1 segment of the respiratory chain. The effects of antimycin are consistent with cyclic electron transfer mechanisms such as the protonmotive Q cycle.     

An antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity in pure reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase

Antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity has been detected in pure, reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase. The enzyme catalyzes electron transfer from succinate to cytochrome c at a rate of 0.7 mumole succinate oxidized per min per mg protein, in the presence of 100 microM cytochrome c. This activity, which is about 2% of that of reconstitutive (the ability of succinate dehydrogenase to reconstitute with coenzyme ubiquinone-binding proteins (QPs) to form succinate-ubiquinone reductase) or succinate-phenazine methosulfate activity in the preparation, differs from antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity detected in submitochondrial particles or isolated succinate-cytochrome c reductase. The Km for cytochrome c for the former is too high to be measured. The Km for the latter is about 4.4 microM, similar to that of antimycin-sensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity in isolated succinate-cytochrome c reductase, suggesting that antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity of succinate-cytochrome c reductase probably results from incomplete inhibition by antimycin. Like reconstitutive activity of succinate dehydrogenase, the antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity of succinate dehydrogenase is sensitive to oxygen; the half-life is about 20 min at 0 degrees C at a protein concentration of 23 mg/ml. In the presence of QPs, the antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity of succinate dehydrogenase disappears and at the same time a thenoyltrifluoroacetone-sensitive succinate-ubiquinone reductase activity appears. This suggests that antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity of succinate dehydrogenase appears when succinate dehydrogenase is detached from the membrane or from QPs. Reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase oxidizes succinate using succinylated cytochrome c as electron acceptor, suggesting that a low potential intermediate (radical) may be involved. This suggestion is confirmed by the detection of an unknown radical by spin trapping techniques. When a spin trap, alpha-phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone (PBN), is added to a succinate oxidizing system containing reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase, a PBN spin adduct is generated. Although this PBN spin adduct is identical to that generated by xanthine oxidase, indicating that a perhydroxy radical might be involved, the insensitivity of this antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity to superoxide dismutase and oxygen questions the nature of this observed radical.     

The operation of the alternative electron-leak pathways mediated by cytochrome c in mitochondria

Low (1 x 10(-9)M) concentrations of cytochrome c inhibit H2O2 production in cytochrome c-depleted mitochondria, purified succinate-cytochrome c reductase (SCR) and antimycin A inhibited cytochrome c-depleted HMP. At higher concentration (2 x 10(-6)M), cytochrome c eliminates pre-existed H2O2 if feeding electrons to it by succinate. Cytochrome c also decreases the OH* produced by succinate-cytochrome c reductase oxidizing succinate. We conclude that the alternative electron-leak pathway mediated by cytochrome c operates very well. In the presence of antimycin A, ferrocytochrome c can suppress the generation of H2O2 in SCR system, but ferricytochrome c cannot. Similar results are obtained on the elimination of pre-existed H2O2 by cytochrome c. For hydroxyl radical, antimycin A abolishes the suppression caused by both ferrocytochrome c and ferricytochrome c. These results indicate that the reductive state of cytochrome c caused by electron-flow is necessary and sufficient for the operation of cytochrome c-mediated electron-leakage pathway.     

Characterization of the respiratory chain of Helicobacter pylori

The respiratory chain of Helicobacter pylori has been investigated. The total insensitivity of activities of NADH dehydrogenase to rotenone and of NADH-cytochrome c reductase to antimycin is indicative of the absence of the classical complex I of the electron transfer chain in this bacterium. NADPH-dependent respiration was significantly stronger than NADH-dependent respiration, indicating that this is a major respiratory electron donor in H. pylori. Fumarate and malonate exhibited a concentration-dependent inhibitory effect on the activity of succinate dehydrogenase. The activity of succinate-cytochrome c reductase was inhibited by antimycin, implying the presence of a classical pathway from complex II to complex III in this bacterium. The presence of NADH-fumarate reductase (FRD) was demonstrated in H. pylori and fumarate could reduce H2O2 production from NADH, indicating fumarate to be an endogenous substrate for accepting electrons from NADH. The activity of NADH-FRD was inhibited by 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone. A tentative scheme for the electron transfer pathway in H. pylori is proposed, which may be helpful in clarifying the pathogenesis of H. pylori and in opening new lines for chemotherapy against this bacterium.     

Resolution and reconstitution of succinate-cytochrome c reductase: preparations and properties of high purity succinate dehydrogenase and ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase

An improved method was developed to sequentially fractionate succinate-cytochrome c reductase into three reconstitutive active enzyme systems with good yield: pure succinate dehydrogenase, ubiquinone-binding protein fraction and a highly purified ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase (cytochrome b-c1 III complex). An extensively dialyzed succinate-cytochrome c reductase was first separated into a succinae dehydrogenase fraction and the cytochrome b-c1 complex by alkali treatment. The resulting succinate dehydrogenase fraction was further purified to homogeneity by the treatment of butanol, calcium phosphate gel adsorption and ammonium sulfate fractionation under anaerobic condition in the presence of succinate and dithiothreitol. The cytochrome b-c1 complex was separated into chtochrome b-c1 III complex and ubiquinone-binding protein fractions by careful ammonium acetate fractionation in the presence of deoxycholate. The purified succinate dehydrogenase contained only two polypeptides with molecular weights of 70 000 anbd 27 000 as revealed by the sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic pattern. The enzyme has the reconstitutive activity and a low Km ferricyanide reductase activity of 85 mumol succinate oxidized per min per mg protein at 38 degrees C. Chemical composition analysis of cytochrome b-c1 III complex showed that the preparation was completely free of contamination of succinate dehydrogenase and ubiquinone-binding protein and was 30% more pure than the available preparation. When these three components were mixed in a proper ratio, a thenoyltrifluoroacetone- and antimycin A-sensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase was reconstituted.     

Diminished inhibition of succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity of resolved reductase complex by thenoyltrifluoroacetone in the presence of antimycin.

Antimycin, when added to resolved succinate-cytochrome $\text{c}$ reductase complex in amounts sufficient to partially inhibit succinate-cytochrome $\text{c}$ reductase activity, causes a decrease in inhibition of the residual succinate-cytochrome $\text{c}$ reductase activity by 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone. Antimycin has no effect on the inhibition of succinate-ubiquinone reductase activity by 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone. We propose that antimycin increases the steady state concentration of ubisemiquinone in the reductase complex, and that 2-thenoyltrifluoracetone is competitive with ubisemiquinone.     

Electron transport between cytochrome c and alpha tocopherol.

Using liposomes we have demonstrated an electron transfer between tocopherol (vitamin E) and cytochrome c. Reduced cytochrome c protects vitamin E from oxidation induced either directly by ultraviolet light or indirectly by soybean lipoxygenase-catalyzed oxidation of arachidonic acid. Oxidized cytochrome c is reduced by tocopherol and tocopherol homologues (chromanols) resulting in accumulation of tocopheroxyl radicals which we detected by ESR. The peak height of the ESR spectrum of tocopheroxyl radicals (which is proportional to the amount of radical present) is proportional to the ratio of reduced to oxidized cytochrome c. In mitochondrial membranes succinate-cytochrome c reduction is inhibited by antimycin A. Addition of exogenous chromanols facilitates a by-pass of the antimycin A blocked electron pathway, and succinate-dependent cytochrome c reductase activity is restored. Cytochrome c may act as a water-soluble complement to the lipid-soluble ubiquinol in regenerating mitochondrial tocopherol from tocopheroxyl radical.     

Photoaffinity labeling of an antimycin-binding site in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides

Tritium-labeled 3-azidosalicyl-N-(n-octadecyl)amide was synthesized and used as a photoaffinity probe for the antimycin-binding site in both purified ubiquinone-cytochrome b-c1 oxidoreductase and chromatophore vesicles from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. In both systems, a prominently labeled protein had a molecular weight of 11,000. Binding to this protein was inhibited by preincubation of the reaction mixture with antimycin prior to addition of the radioactive analog and subsequent irradiation. The antimycin analog, 3-azidosalicyl-N-(n-octadecyl)amide, inhibited succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity in chromatophore vesicles by 50% at a concentration of 150 nmols/mg of protein.     

Interactions of cytochrome c with mitochondrial membranes. Binding to succinate-cytochrome c reductase

Methyl-4-azidobenzoimidate was reacted with horse heart cytochrome c to give a photoaffinity-labeled derivative of this heme protein. The modified cytochrome c bound to cytochrome c-depleted mitochondria with the same Kd as native cytochrome c and restored oxygen uptake to the same extent. Irradiation of cytochrome c-depleted mitochondrial membranes with 3- to 4-fold excess of photoaffinity-labeled cytochrome c over cytochrome c oxidase resulted in covalent binding of the derivative to the membranes. Fractionation of the irradiated mitochondria in the presence of detergents and salts followed by chromatography on an agarose Bio-Gel-A-5m showed that the labeled cytochrome c was bound covalently to succinate-cytochrome c reductase. The covalently bound cytochrome c was active in mediating electron transfer between its reductase and oxidase. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the succinate-cytochrome c reductase containing photoaffinity-labeled 125I-cytochrome c showed that the reductase contained a protein binding site for cytochrome c. It is suggested that cytochrome c1 is the most likely site for the cytochrome c binding in mitochondria in situ.     

Altered Mitochondrial Respiration in a Chromosomal Mutant of Neurospora crassa

A mutant of Neurospora crassa (cni-1) has been isolated that has two pathways of mitochondrial respiration. One pathway is sensitive to cyanide and antimycin A, the other is sensitive only to salicyl hydroxamic acid. Respiration can proceed through either pathway and both pathways together in this mutant account for greater than 90% of all mitochondrial respiration. The cni-1 mutation segregates as a nuclear gene in crosses to other strains of Neurospora. Absorption spectra of isolated mitochondria from cni-1 show typical b- and c-type cytochromes but the absorption peaks corresponding to cytochrome aa(3) are not detectable. Extraction of soluble cytochrome c-546 from these mitochondria followed by reduction with ascorbate reveals a new absorption peak at 426 nm that is not present in wild-type mitochondria. This peak may be due to an altered cytochrome oxidase with abnormal spectral properties. Mitochondria from cni-1 have elevated levels of succinate-cytochrome c reductase but reduced levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide reduced form cytochrome c reductase and of cyanide- and azide-sensitive cytochrome c oxidase. These studies suggest that the cni-1 mutation results in the abnormal assembly of cytochrome c oxidase so that the typical cytochrome aa(3) spectrum is lost and the enzyme activity is reduced. As a consequence of this alteration, a cyanide-insensitive respiratory pathway is elaborated by these mitochondria which may serve to stimulate adenosine 5'-triphosphate production via substrate level phosphorylation by glycolysis and the Krebs cycle.