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ADP-ribosyl cyclase and NAD+ glycohydrolase (CD38, E.C.3.2.2.5) efficiently catalyze the exchange of the nicotinamidyl moiety of NAD+, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+) or nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN+) with an alternative base. 4′-Pyridinyl drugs (amrinone, milrinone, dismerinone and pinacidil) were efficient alternative substrates (kcat/KM = 0.9-10 μM−1 s−1) in the exchange reaction with ADP-ribosyl cyclase. When CD38 was used as a catalyst the kcat/KM values for the exchange reaction were reduced two or more orders of magnitude (0.015-0.15 μM−1 s−1). The products of this reaction were novel dinucleotides. The values of the equilibrium constants for dinucleotide formation were determined for several drugs. These enzymes also efficiently catalyze the formation of novel mononucleotides in an exchange reaction with NMN+, kcat/KM = 0.05-0.4 μM−1 s−1. The kcat/KM values for the exchange reaction with NMN+ were generally similar (0.04-0.12 μM−1 s−1) with CD38 and ADP-ribosyl cyclase as catalysts. Several novel heterocyclic alternative substrates were identified as 2-isoquinolines, 1,6-naphthyridines and tricyclic bases. The kcat/KM values for the exchange reaction with these substrates varied over five orders of magnitude and approached the limit of diffusion with 1,6-naphthyridines. The exchange reaction could be used to synthesize novel mononucleotides or to identify novel reversible inhibitors of CD38. 相似文献
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GOX is the most widely used enzyme for the development of electrochemical glucose biosensors and biofuel cell in physiological conditions. The present work describes the production of a recombinant glucose oxidase from Penicillium amagasakiense (yGOXpenag) displaying a more efficient glucose catalysis (kcat/KM(glucose) = 93 μM−1 s−1) than the native GOX from Aspergillus niger (nGOXaspng), which is the most industrially used (kcat/KM(glucose) = 27 μM−1 s−1). Expression in Pichia pastoris allowed easy production and purification of the recombinant active enzyme, without overglycosylation. Its biotechnological interest was further evaluated by measuring kinetics of ferrocinium-methanol (FMox) reduction, which is commonly used for electron transfer to the electrode surface. Despite their homologies in sequence and structure, pH-dependant FMox reduction was different between the two enzymes. At physiological pH and temperature, we observed that electron transfer to the redox mediator is also more efficient for yGOXpenag than for nGOXaspng(kcat/KM(FMox) = 27 μM−1 s−1 and 17 μM−1 s−1 respectively). In our model system, the catalytic current observed in the presence of blood glucose concentration (5 mM) was two times higher with yGOXpenag than with nGOXaspng. All our results indicated that yGOXpenag is a better candidate for industrial development of efficient bioelectrochemical devices used in physiological conditions. 相似文献
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The glycolytic enzyme triose phosphate isomerase from Schistosoma mansoni is a potential target for drugs and vaccines. Molecular modelling of the enzyme predicted that a Ser-Ala-Asp motif which is believed to be a helminth-specific epitope is exposed. The enzyme is dimeric (as judged by gel filtration and cross-linking), resistant to proteolysis and highly stable to thermal denaturation (melting temperature of 82.0 °C). The steady-state kinetic parameters are high (Km for dihydroxyacetone phosphate is 0.51 mM; Km for glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is 1.1 mM; kcat for dihydroxyacetone phosphate is 7800 s−1 and kcat for glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is 6.9 s−1). 相似文献
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Phuong Lan Tran Hyun-Ju Cha Jin-Sil Lee Sung-Hoon Park Eui-Jeon Woo Kwan-Hwa Park 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2014
To understand the role of His and Glu in the catalytic activity of Bacillus licheniformis α-amylase (BLA), His235 was replaced with Glu. The mutant enzyme, H235E, was characterized in terms of its mode of action using labeled and unlabeled maltooctaose (Glc8). H235E predominantly produced maltotridecaose (Glc13) from Glc8, exhibiting high substrate transglycosylation activity, with Km = 0.38 mM and kcat/Km = 20.58 mM−1 s−1 for hydrolysis, and Km2 = 18.38 mM and kcat2/Km2 = 2.57 mM−1 s−1 for transglycosylation, while the wild-type BLA exhibited high hydrolysis activity exclusively. Glu235—located on a wide open groove near subsite +1—is likely involved in transglycosylation via formation of an α-1,4-glycosidic linkage and may recognize and stabilize the non-reducing end glucose of the acceptor molecule. 相似文献
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LodA is a novel lysine-ε-oxidase which possesses a cysteine tryptophylquinone cofactor. It is the first tryptophylquinone enzyme known to function as an oxidase. A steady-state kinetic analysis shows that LodA obeys a ping-pong kinetic mechanism with values of kcat of 0.22 ± 0.04 s−1, Klysine of 3.2 ± 0.5 μM and KO2 of 37.2 ± 6.1 μM. The kcat exhibited a pH optimum at 7.5 while kcat/Klysine peaked at 7.0 and remained constant to pH 8.5. Alternative electron acceptors could not effectively substitute for O2 in the reaction. A mechanism for the reductive half reaction of LodA is proposed that is consistent with the ping-pong kinetics. 相似文献
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Francisco J. FernandezDominique de Vries Esther Peña-Soler Miquel CollPhilipp Christen Heinz GehringM. Cristina Vega 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics》2012,1824(2):339-349
The joint substitution of three active-site residues in Escherichia colil-aspartate aminotransferase increases the ratio of l-cysteine sulfinate desulfinase to transaminase activity 105-fold. This change in reaction specificity results from combining a tyrosine-shift double mutation (Y214Q/R280Y) with a non-conservative substitution of a substrate-binding residue (I33Q). Tyr214 hydrogen bonds with O3 of the cofactor and is close to Arg374 which binds the α-carboxylate group of the substrate; Arg280 interacts with the distal carboxylate group of the substrate; and Ile33 is part of the hydrophobic patch near the entrance to the active site, presumably participating in the domain closure essential for the transamination reaction. In the triple-mutant enzyme, kcat′ for desulfination of l-cysteine sulfinate increased to 0.5 s− 1 (from 0.05 s− 1 in wild-type enzyme), whereas kcat′ for transamination of the same substrate was reduced from 510 s− 1 to 0.05 s− 1. Similarly, kcat′ for β-decarboxylation of l-aspartate increased from < 0.0001 s− 1 to 0.07 s− 1, whereas kcat′ for transamination was reduced from 530 s− 1 to 0.13 s− 1. l-Aspartate aminotransferase had thus been converted into an l-cysteine sulfinate desulfinase that catalyzes transamination and l-aspartate β-decarboxylation as side reactions. The X-ray structures of the engineered l-cysteine sulfinate desulfinase in its pyridoxal-5′-phosphate and pyridoxamine-5′-phosphate form or liganded with a covalent coenzyme-substrate adduct identified the subtle structural changes that suffice for generating desulfinase activity and concomitantly abolishing transaminase activity toward dicarboxylic amino acids. Apparently, the triple mutation impairs the domain closure thus favoring reprotonation of alternative acceptor sites in coenzyme-substrate intermediates by bulk water. 相似文献
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The action pattern of Bacillus licheniformis thermostable α-amylase (BLA) was analyzed using a series of 14C-labeled and non-labeled maltooligosaccharides from maltose (G2) to maltododecaose (G12). Maltononaose (G9) was the preferred substrate, and yielded the smallest Km = 0.36 mM, the highest kcat = 12.86 s−1, and a kcat/Km value of 35.72 s−1 mM−1, producing maltotriose (G3) and maltohexaose (G6) as the major product pair. Maltooctaose (G8) was hydrolyzed into two pairs of products: G3 and maltopentaose (G5), and G2 and G6 with cleavage frequencies of 0.45 and 0.30, respectively. Therefore, we propose a model with nine subsites: six in the terminal non-reducing end-binding site and three at the reducing end-binding site in the binding region of BLA. 相似文献
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Francesco Sgarrella Luciano Frassetto Simone Allegrini Marcella Camici Maria Caterina Carta Paolo Fadda Maria Grazia Tozzi Piero Luigi Ipata 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2007
Adenosine phosphorylase, a purine nucleoside phosphorylase endowed with high specificity for adenine nucleosides, was purified 117-fold from vegetative forms of Bacillus cereus. The purification procedure included ammonium sulphate fractionation, pH 4 treatment, ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel, gel filtration on Sephacryl S-300 HR and affinity chromatography on N6-adenosyl agarose. The enzyme shows a good stability to both temperature and pH. It appears to be a homohexamer of 164 ± 5 kDa. Kinetic characterization confirmed the specificity of this phosphorylase for 6-aminopurine nucleosides. Adenosine was the preferred substrate for nucleoside phosphorolysis (kcat/Km 2.1 × 106 s− 1 M− 1), followed by 2′-deoxyadenosine (kcat/Km 4.2 × 105 s− 1 M− 1). Apparently, the low specificity of adenosine phosphorylase towards 6-oxopurine nucleosides is due to a slow catalytic rate rather than to poor substrate binding. 相似文献
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Vullo D Nishimori I Minakuchi T Scozzafava A Supuran CT 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2011,21(12):3591-3595
Two new β-carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2.1.1) from the bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, stCA 1 and stCA 2, were characterized kinetically. The two enzymes possess appreciable activity as catalysts for the hydration of CO2 to bicarbonate, with kcat of 0.79 × 106 s−1 and 1.0 × 106 s−1, and kcat/Km of 5.2 × 107 M−1 s−1 and of 8.3 × 107 M−1 s−1, respectively. A large number of simple/complex inorganic anions as well as other small molecules (sulfamide, sulfamic acid, phenylboronic acid, phenylarsonic acid, dialkyldithiocarbamates) showed interesting inhibitory properties towards the two new enzymes, with several low micromolar inhibitors discovered. As many strains of S. enterica show extensive resistance to classical antibiotics, inhibition of the β-CAs investigated here may be useful for developing lead compounds for novel types of antibacterials. 相似文献
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Sinisa Bjelic Yakov Kipnis Ling Wang Zbigniew Pianowski Sergey Vorobiev Min Su Jayaraman Seetharaman Rong Xiao Gregory Kornhaber John F. Hunt Liang Tong Donald Hilvert David Baker 《Journal of molecular biology》2014
Designed retroaldolases have utilized a nucleophilic lysine to promote carbon–carbon bond cleavage of β-hydroxy-ketones via a covalent Schiff base intermediate. Previous computational designs have incorporated a water molecule to facilitate formation and breakdown of the carbinolamine intermediate to give the Schiff base and to function as a general acid/base. Here we investigate an alternative active-site design in which the catalytic water molecule was replaced by the side chain of a glutamic acid. Five out of seven designs expressed solubly and exhibited catalytic efficiencies similar to previously designed retroaldolases for the conversion of 4-hydroxy-4-(6-methoxy-2-naphthyl)-2-butanone to 6-methoxy-2-naphthaldehyde and acetone. After one round of site-directed saturation mutagenesis, improved variants of the two best designs, RA114 and RA117, exhibited among the highest kcat (> 10− 3 s− 1) and kcat/KM (11–25 M− 1 s− 1) values observed for retroaldolase designs prior to comprehensive directed evolution. In both cases, the > 105-fold rate accelerations that were achieved are within 1–3 orders of magnitude of the rate enhancements reported for the best catalysts for related reactions, including catalytic antibodies (kcat/kuncat = 106 to 108) and an extensively evolved computational design (kcat/kuncat > 107). The catalytic sites, revealed by X-ray structures of optimized versions of the two active designs, are in close agreement with the design models except for the catalytic lysine in RA114. We further improved the variants by computational remodeling of the loops and yeast display selection for reactivity of the catalytic lysine with a diketone probe, obtaining an additional order of magnitude enhancement in activity with both approaches. 相似文献
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Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad Geoffrey B. Fincher 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》2010,496(1):61-361
Three barley xyloglucan endotransglycosylases (HvXETs), known as xyloglucan xyloglucosyl transferases (EC 2.4.1.207), were subjected to kinetic and computational docking studies. The kcat·Km−1 values with the reduced [3H]-labelled XXXG, XXLG/XLXG and XLLG acceptor substrates were 0.02 × 10−2, 0.1 × 10−2 and 3.2 × 10−2 s−1 μM−1, while the Km constants were 10.6, 8.6 and 5.3 mM, obtained for HvXET3, HvXET4 and HvXET6, respectively. Docking of XLLG in acceptor-binding regions revealed that at least two conformational states were likely to participate in all isoforms. The assessments of kinetic and computational data indicated that the disposition of aromatic residues at the entrance to the active sites and the flexibility of proximal COOH-terminal loops could orient acceptors more or less favourably during binding, thus leading to tighter or weaker Km constants. The data suggested that binding of acceptors in HvXETs is guided by contributions from the conserved residues in the active sites and by the of neighbouring loops. 相似文献
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Immacolata Del Giudice Danila Limauro Emilia Pedone Simonetta Bartolucci Gabriella Fiorentino 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics》2013,1834(10):2071-2079
Microorganisms living in arsenic-rich geothermal environments act on arsenic with different biochemical strategies, but the molecular mechanisms responsible for the resistance to the harmful effects of the metalloid have only partially been examined. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms of arsenic resistance in the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27. This strain, originally isolated from a Japanese hot spring, exhibited tolerance to concentrations of arsenate and arsenite up to 20 mM and 15 mM, respectively; it owns in its genome a putative chromosomal arsenate reductase (TtarsC) gene encoding a protein homologous to the one well characterized from the plasmid pI258 of the Gram + bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. Differently from the majority of microorganisms, TtarsC is part of an operon including genes not related to arsenic resistance; qRT-PCR showed that its expression was four-fold increased when arsenate was added to the growth medium. The gene cloning and expression in Escherichia coli, followed by purification of the recombinant protein, proved that TtArsC was indeed a thioredoxin-coupled arsenate reductase with a kcat/KM value of 1.2 × 104 M− 1 s− 1. It also exhibited weak phosphatase activity with a kcat/KM value of 2.7 × 10− 4 M− 1 s− 1. The catalytic role of the first cysteine (Cys7) was ascertained by site-directed mutagenesis. These results identify TtArsC as an important component in the arsenic resistance in T. thermophilus giving the first structural–functional characterization of a thermophilic arsenate reductase. 相似文献
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Johan Ålander Vanina Dahlström Heuser Julia Järvliden Aya Shibata Yoshihiro Ito 《Analytical biochemistry》2009,390(1):52-1708
A new thiol-reactive electrophilic, disubstituted rhodamine-based fluorogenic probe (bis-2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonyl rhodamine [BDR]) with very high quantum yield was synthesized and described recently [A. Shibata et al., Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 18 (2008) 2246-2249]. Because hydrophobic electrophiles are often conjugated by glutathione transferases, the BDR or monosubstituted rhodamine derivatives (2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonyl rhodamine [DR]) were tested with microsomal glutathione transferase 1 (MGST1) and shown to function as substrates. The kinetic parameters for purified enzyme and DR were kcat = 0.075 ± 0.005 s−1 and Km = 21 ± 3 μM (kcat/Km = 3.6 × 103 ± 5.6 × 102 M−1 s−1), giving a rate enhancement of 106 compared with the nonenzymatic reaction. In cells overexpressing MGST1, the addition of BDR caused a time-dependent increase of fluorescence compared with control cells. Preincubating the cells with a thiol reagent (N-ethylmaleimide) abolished the fluorescent signal. By using DR, we could determine the MGST1 activity in whole cell extracts with high sensitivity. In addition, the activity could be increased by thiol reagents (a hallmark of MGST1). Thus, we have identified a new fluorogenic substrate for MGST1 that will be a useful tool in the study of this enzyme and related enzymes. 相似文献
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Burghout P Vullo D Scozzafava A Hermans PW Supuran CT 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry》2011,19(1):243-248
The Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is a human respiratory tract pathogen that contributes significantly to global mortality and morbidity. It was recently shown that this bacterial pathogen depends on a conserved ??-carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) for in vitro growth in environmental ambient air and during intracellular survival in host cells. Hence, it is to be expected that this pneumococcal carbonic anhydrase (PCA) contributes to transmission and pathogenesis of the bacterium, making it a potential therapeutic target. In this study, purified recombinant PCA has been further characterized kinetically and for inhibition with a series of inorganic anions and small molecules useful as leads. PCA has appreciable activity as catalyst for the hydration of CO2 to bicarbonate, with a kcat of 7.4 × 105 s−1 and kcat/Km of 6.5 × 107 M−1 s−1 at an optimum pH of 8.4. Inorganic anions such as chloride, bromide, iodide, cyanate, selenocyanate, trithiocarbonate, and cyanide were effective inhibitors of PCA (KIs of 21-98 ??M). Sulfamide, sulfamic acid, phenylboronic, phenylarsonic acid, and diethyldithiocarbamate showed inhibition constants in the low micromolar/submicromolar range (KIs of 0.61-6.68 ??M), whereas that of the sulfonamide acetazolamide was in the nanomolar range (KIs 89 nM). In conclusion, our results show that PCA can effectively be inhibited by a range of molecules that could be interesting leads for obtaining more potent PCA inhibitors. PCA might be a novel target for designing antimicrobial drugs with a new mechanism of action. 相似文献
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Ahmed I. Hanafy 《Inorganica chimica acta》2005,358(4):1247-1252
The copper (II) complex of a simple pyridine- and amide-containing copolymer serves as an effective catalyst for heterogeneous hydrolysis of the prototypical phosphodiester substrate bis(p-nitrophenyl)phosphate at pH 8.0 and 25 °C. The catalysis has a first-order rate constant of kcat = 8.3 × 10−6 s−1, corresponding to a catalytic proficiency of 75-thousand folds relative to the uncatalyzed hydrolysis with a rate constant of k0 = 1.1 × 10−10 s−1 in aqueous buffer solution at pH 8.0. This observation suggests that polymers can be designed to include various functional groups feasible for effective metal-centered catalysis of phosphodiester hydrolysis. 相似文献
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Sanaullah Iqbal Thu-Ha Nguyen Tien Thanh Nguyen Thomas Maischberger Dietmar Haltrich 《Carbohydrate research》2010,345(10):1408-1416
Recombinant β-galactosidase from Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1, homologously over-expressed in L. plantarum, was purified to apparent homogeneity using p-aminobenzyl 1-thio-β-d-galactopyranoside affinity chromatography and subsequently characterized. The enzyme is a heterodimer of the LacLM-family type, consisting of a small subunit of 35 kDa and a large subunit of 72 kDa. The optimum pH for hydrolysis of its preferred substrates o-nitrophenyl-β-d-galactopyranoside (oNPG) and lactose is 7.5 and 7.0, and optimum temperature for these reactions is 55 and 60 °C, respectively. The enzyme is most stable in the pH range of 6.5-8.0. The Km, kcat and kcat/Km values for oNPG and lactose are 0.9 mM, 92 s−1, 130 mM−1 s−1 and 29 mM, 98 s−1, 3.3 mM−1 s−1, respectively. The L. plantarum β-galactosidase possesses a high transgalactosylation activity and was used for the synthesis of prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS). The resulting GOS mixture was analyzed in detail, and major components were identified by using high performance anion exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection (HPAEC-PAD) as well as capillary electrophoresis. The maximal GOS yield was 41% (w/w) of total sugars at 85% lactose conversion (600 mM initial lactose concentration). The enzyme showed a strong preference for the formation of β-(1→6) linkages in its transgalactosylation mode, while β-(1→3)-linked products were formed to a lesser extent, comprising ∼80% and 9%, respectively, of the newly formed glycosidic linkages in the oligosaccharide mixture at maximum GOS formation. The main individual products formed were β-d-Galp-(1→6)-d-Lac, accounting for 34% of total GOS, and β-d-Galp-(1→6)-d-Glc, making up 29% of total GOS. 相似文献
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Svetlana Sharoyan Alvard Antonyan Sona Mardanyan Hayk Harutyunyan Naira Movsisyan Narek Hovnanyan Karlen Hovnanyan 《Neurochemistry international》2013
The aggregates of amyloid beta peptides (Aβs) are regarded as one of the main pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). An imbalance between the rates of synthesis and clearance of Aβs is considered to be a possible cause for the onset of AD. Dipeptidyl peptidases II and IV (DPPII and DPPIV) are serine proteases removing N-terminal dipeptides from polypeptides and proteins with proline or alanine on the penultimate position. Alanine is an N-terminal penultimate residue in Аβs, and we presumed that DPPII and DPPIV could cleave them. The results of present in vitro research demonstrate for the first time the ability of DPPIV to truncate the commercial Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides, to hinder the fibril formation by them and to participate in the disaggregation of preformed fibrils of these peptides. The increase of absorbance at 334 nm due to complex formation between primary amines with o-phtalaldehyde was used to show cleaving of Aβ40 and Aβ42. The time-dependent increase of the quantity of primary amines during incubation of peptides in the presence of DPPIV suggested their truncation by DPPIV, but not by DPPII. The parameters of the enzymatic breakdown by DPPIV were determined for Aβ40 (Km = 37.5 μM, kcat/Km = 1.7 × 103 M−1sec−1) and Aβ42 (Km = 138.4 μM, kcat/Km = 1.90 × 102 M−1sec−1). The aggregation-disaggregation of peptides was controlled by visualization on transmission electron microscope and by Thioflavin-T fluorescence on spectrofluorimeter and fluorescent microscope. DPPIV hindered the peptide aggregation/fibrillation during 3-4 days incubation in 20 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, 37 °C by 50–80%. Ovalbumin, BSA and DPPII did not show this effect. In the presence of DPPIV, the preformed fibrils were disaggregated by 30–40%. Conclusion: for the first time it was shown that the Aβ40 and Aβ42 are substrates of DPPIV. DPPIV prohibits the fibrillation of peptides and promotes disaggregation of their preformed aggregates. 相似文献
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The multifunctional proline utilization A (PutA) flavoenzyme from Escherichia coli performs the oxidation of proline to glutamate in two catalytic steps using separate proline dehydrogenase (PRODH) and Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate (P5C) dehydrogenase domains. In the first reaction, the oxidation of proline is coupled to the reduction of ubiquinone (CoQ) by the PRODH domain, which has a β8α8-barrel structure that is conserved in bacterial and eukaryotic PRODH enzymes. The structural requirements of the benzoquinone moiety were examined by steady-state kinetics using CoQ analogs. PutA displayed activity with all the analogs tested; the highest kcat/Km was obtained with CoQ2. The kinetic mechanism of the PRODH reaction was investigated use a variety of steady-state approaches. Initial velocity patterns measured using proline and CoQ1, combined with dead-end and product inhibition studies, suggested a two-site ping-pong mechanism for PutA. The kinetic parameters for PutA were not strongly influenced by solvent viscosity suggesting that diffusive steps do not significantly limit the overall reaction rate. In summary, the kinetic data reported here, along with analysis of the crystal structure data for the PRODH domain, suggest that the proline:ubiquinone oxidoreductase reaction of PutA occurs via a rapid equilibrium ping-pong mechanism with proline and ubiquinone binding at two distinct sites. 相似文献
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《Analytical biochemistry》2010,399(2):196-201
Previously selected by the combinatorial chemistry approach, potent fluorogenic substrate of proteinase 3 was used as the starting structure to design new substrates. The general formula of the synthesized peptides is as follows: ABZ-Tyr-Tyr-Abu-ANB-X-NH2, where ANB (5-amino-2-nitrobenzoic acid) served as a chromophore and an acceptor of fluorescence, ABZ (aminobenzoic acid) is a donor of fluorescence in these fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) peptides, and X is a proteinogenic amino acid (except Cys). The introduced modifications influenced substrate activity of the synthesized peptides. The highest value of specificity constant for proteinase 3 was obtained for the single peptide with Gln in the discussed position (kcat/KM = 275,000 M−1 s−1), which was nearly twice as active as the reference compound (lacking a substituent in the X position). In addition, more efficient energy transfer was observed, due mainly to the bathochromic effect for the introduced modification. This approach opens a new possibility to design potent and highly specific substrates of proteinase 3 and other proteinases optimized in the prime site region. 相似文献
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Dahmane Ouazia 《Analytical biochemistry》2010,398(1):45-563
α-Methylacyl-coenzyme A racemase (AMACR) catalyzes the epimerization of (2R)- and (2S)-methyl branched fatty acyl-coenzyme A (CoA) thioesters. AMACR is a biomarker for prostate cancer and a putative target for the development of therapeutic agents directed against the disease. To facilitate development of AMACR inhibitors, a continuous circular dichroism (CD)-based assay has been developed. The open reading frame encoding AMACR from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MCR) was subcloned into a pET15b vector, and the enzyme was overexpressed and purified using metal ion affinity chromatography. The rates of MCR-catalyzed epimerization of either (2R)- or (2S)-ibuprofenoyl-CoA were determined by following the change in ellipticity at 279 nm in the presence of octyl-β-d-glucopyranoside (0.2%). MCR exhibited slightly higher affinity for (2R)-ibuprofenoyl-CoA (Km = 48 ± 5 μM, kcat = 291 ± 30 s−1), but turned over (2S)-ibuprofenoyl-CoA (Km = 86 ± 6 μM, kcat = 450 ± 14 s−1) slightly faster. MCR expressed as a fusion protein bearing an N-terminal His6-tag had a catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km) that was reduced 22% and 47% in the 2S → 2R and 2R → 2S directions, respectively, relative to untagged enzyme. The continuous CD-based assay offers an economical and efficient alternative method to the labor-intensive, fixed-time assays currently used to measure AMACR activity. 相似文献