Mechanistically significant diastereoselection in the sulfoximine inhibition of carboxypeptidase A |
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Authors: | W L Mock J Z Zhang |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680-4348. |
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Abstract: | The diastereomers of L-alpha-[ [S-(2-phenylethyl)sulfonimidoyl]methyl]benzenepropanoic acid bind differentially to carboxypeptidase A. These putative transition state-analogue inhibitors show unique and interpretationally significant pH dependences for Ki, as well as for the visible absorption spectra of their E.I complexes in the case of the cobalt-substituted enzyme. From the geometry of the enzymically preferred isomer, it may be concluded that the mechanism of peptide scission by the enzyme entails addition of a nucleophile to the si face of the bound-substrate prochiral carboxamide linkage. New interpretational constraints on the mode of action of the enzyme are thereby imposed. |
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