Kinetics of alkaline phosphatase from pig kidney. Influence of complexing agents on stability and activity

1976 ◽  
Vol 155 (3) ◽  
pp. 465.b1-465.b1
Author(s):  
B P Ackermann ◽  
J Ahlers
1976 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
B P Ackermann ◽  
J Ahlers

Metal ion-complexing agents, like KCN, EDTA etc., inactivate alkaline phosphatase of pig kidney. This inactivation is reversible at low concentrations of the complexing agents and irreversible at high concentrations. The reversible inhibition is probably due to removal of Zn2+ ions from the active site, where they are necessary for catalytic action, whereas the irreversible inhibition results from the removal of Zn2+ ions necessary for preservation of the structure. The inactivation is pseudo-first order. It depends on the concentration, size and charge of the complexing agents. β-Glycerophosphate and Mg2+ ions protect the enzyme from inactivation by complexing agents. Quantitative examination of the effect of substrate leads to a model that is similar to the “sequential model” proposed by D.E. Koshland, G. Nemethy & D. Filmer (1966) (Biochemistry 5, 365-385) to explain allosteric behavior of enzymes. It describes the sequential addition of two substrate molecules at two active centres of the dimer enzyme. The binding of the substrate molecules is accompanied by changes in the conformation, which lead to stabilization of the enzyme against attack by complexing agents.


1968 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Butterworth

1. Pig kidney alkaline phosphatase is inactivated by treatment with acid at 0°. 2. Inactivated enzyme can be partially reactivated by incubation at 30° in neutral or alkaline buffer. The amount of reactivation that occurs depends on the degree of acid treatment; enzyme that has been inactivated below pH3·3 shows very little reactivation. 3. Studies of the kinetics of reactivation indicate that the process is greatly accelerated by increasing temperature and proceeds by a unimolecular mechanism. The reactivated enzyme has electrophoretic and gel-filtration properties identical with those of non-treated enzyme. 4. The results can be best explained by assuming that a lowering of the pH causes a reversible conformational change of the alkaline phosphatase molecule to a form that is no longer enzymically active but is very susceptible to permanent denaturation by prolonged acid treatment. A reactivation mechanism involving sub-unit recombination seems unlikely.


1979 ◽  
Vol 181 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
M N Woodroofe ◽  
P J Butterworth

The arginine-specific reagents 2,3-butanedione and phenylglyoxal inactivate pig kidney alkaline phosphatase. As inactivation proceeds there is a progressive fall in Vmax. of the enzyme, but no demonstrable change in the Km value for substrate. Pi, a competitive inhibitor, and AMP, a substrate of the enzyme, protect alkaline phosphatase against the arginine-specific reagents. These effects are explicable by the assumption that the enzyme contains an essential arginine residue at the active site. Protection is also afforded by the uncompetitive inhibitor NADH through a partially competive action against the reagents. Enzyme that has been exposed to the reagents has a decreased sensitivity to NADH inhibition. It is suggested that an arginine residue is important for NADH binding also, although this residue is distinct from that at the catalytic site. The protection given by NADH against loss of activity is indicative of the close proximity of the active and NADH sites.


1960 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1149-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kunitz

Purified chicken intestinal alkaline phosphatase is active at pH 8 to 9, but becomes rapidly inactivated with change of pH to 6 or less. Also, a solution of the inactivated enzyme at pH 4.5 rapidly regains its activity at pH 8. In the range of pH 6 to 8 a solution of purified alkaline phosphatase consists of a mixture of active and inactive enzyme in equilibrium with each other. The rate of inactivation at lower pH and of reactivation at higher pH increases with increase in temperature. Also, the activity at equilibrium in the range of pH 6 to 8 increases with temperature so that a solution equilibrated at higher temperature loses part of its activity on cooling, and vice versa, a rise in temperature shifts the equilibrium toward higher activity. The kinetics of inactivation of the enzyme at lower pH and the reactivation at higher pH is that of a unimolecular reaction. The thermodynamic values for the heat and entropy of the reversible inactivation and reactivation of the enzyme are considerably lower than those observed for the reversible denaturation of proteins. The inactivated enzyme at pH 4 to 6 is rapidly reactivated on addition of Zn ions even at pH 4 to 6. However, zinc ions are unable to replace magnesium ions as cocatalysts for the enzymatic hydrolysis of organic phosphates by alkaline phosphatase.


1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 829-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Ahlers

Abstract Inactivation studies with 17 group-specific inhibitors showed that amino, hystidyl and tyrosyl residues probably are components of the active and/or regulatory sites of pig kidney alkaline phosphatase.


1953 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Neil B. Madsen ◽  
Jules Tuba

The kinetics of intestinal alkaline phosphatase action on sodium β-glycerophosphate, glucose 6-phosphate, and egg lecithin have been studied and compared. The Michaelis constants indicate that the enzyme shows considerably less affinity for lecithin than for the other two substrates, and the approximate ratio of activity with lecithin, glucose 6-phosphate, and sodium β-glycerophosphate is 11 : 78.5 : 100. The energies of activation for the hydrolysis of the three substrates do not differ appreciably and the average energy of activation is 14,500 calories per gram-mole. The similarity of the energies of activation together with results from inhibition studies indicate that in all probability the same enzyme is responsible for the release of inorganic phosphorus from each of the three substrates.


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