scholarly journals Steady-state kinetic analysis of aldehyde dehydrogenase from human erythrocytes

1992 ◽  
Vol 287 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
G T M Henehan ◽  
K F Tipton

The steady-state kinetics of purified cytoplasmic aldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.3) from human erythrocytes have been studied at 37 degrees C. Previous studies of the enzyme from several mammalian sources, which used a lower assay temperature, have been difficult to interpret because of the substrate activation by acetaldehyde which led to complex kinetic behaviour. At 37 degrees C the initial-rate data do not depart significantly from Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Studies of the variation of initial rates as a function of the concentrations of both substrates and studies of the inhibition by NADH were consistent with a sequential mechanism being followed. High-substrate inhibition by acetaldehyde was competitive with respect to NAD+. The enzyme was not inhibited by the product acetate and thus the results of these studies, although consistent with an ordered mechanism in which NAD+ was the first substrate to bind, were inconclusive. That such a mechanism was followed was confirmed by determination of the initial-rate behaviour in the presence of acetaldehyde and glycolaldehyde as alternative substrates. When the reciprocal of the initial rate of NADH formation was plotted against the acetaldehyde concentration at a series of fixed ratios between that substrate and glycolaldehyde, a linear ‘mixed inhibition’ pattern was obtained, confirming the mechanism to be ordered with NAD+ being the leading substrate and with kinetically significant ternary complex-formation.

1989 ◽  
Vol 259 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
C E King ◽  
P T Hawkins ◽  
L R Stephens ◽  
R H Michell

When intact human erythrocytes are incubated at metabolic steady state in a chloride-free medium containing [32P]Pi, there is rapid labelling of the gamma-phosphate of ATP, followed by a slower labelling of the monoester phosphate groups of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PtdIns4P) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2] [King, Stephens, Hawkins, Guy & Michell (1987) Biochem. J. 244, 209-217]. We have analysed the early kinetics of the labelling of these phosphate groups, in order to determine: (a) the steady-state rates of the interconversions of phosphatidylinositol, PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2; and (b) the fractions of the total cellular complement of PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2 that participate in this steady-state turnover. The experimental data most closely fit a pattern of PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2 turnover in which one-quarter of the total cellular complement of each lipid is in the metabolic pool that participates in rapid metabolic turnover, with rate constants of 0.028 min-1 for the interconversion of PtdIns and PtdIns4P, and of 0.010 min-1 for the PtdIns4P/PtdIns(4,5)P2 cycle. These rate constants represent metabolic fluxes of approx. 2.1 nmol of lipid/h per ml of packed erythrocytes between PtdIns and PtdIns4P and of approx. 5.7 nmol/h per ml of cells between PtdIns4P and PtdIns(4,5)P2.


2000 ◽  
Vol 352 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto VELASCO-GARCÍA ◽  
Lilian GONZÁLEZ-SEGURA ◽  
Rosario A. MUÑOZ-CLARES

Betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH) catalyses the irreversible oxidation of betaine aldehyde to glycine betaine with the concomitant reduction of NAD(P)+ to NADP(H). In Pseudomonas aeruginosa this reaction is a compulsory step in the assimilation of carbon and nitrogen when bacteria are growing in choline or choline precursors. The kinetic mechanisms of the NAD+- and NADP+-dependent reactions were examined by steady-state kinetic methods and by dinucleotide binding experiments. The double-reciprocal patterns obtained for initial velocity with NAD(P)+ and for product and dead-end inhibition establish that both mechanisms are steady-state random. However, quantitative analysis of the inhibitions, and comparison with binding data, suggest a preferred route of addition of substrates and release of products in which NAD(P)+ binds first and NAD(P)H leaves last, particularly in the NADP+-dependent reaction. Abortive binding of the dinucleotides, or their analogue ADP, in the betaine aldehyde site was inferred from total substrate inhibition by the dinucleotides, and parabolic inhibition by NADH and ADP. A weak partial uncompetitive substrate inhibition by the aldehyde was observed only in the NADP+-dependent reaction. The kinetics of P. aeruginosa BADH is very similar to that of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, suggesting that both enzymes fulfil a similar amphibolic metabolic role when the bacteria grow in choline and when they grow in glucose.


1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 630-634
Author(s):  
M. James C. Crabbe ◽  
Derek Goode

Steady-state kinetic analysis of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase showed that medium effects (higher temperatures or pH, higher ionic strengths, or lower values for dielectric constant) altered the kinetic behaviour of the enzyme with acetyl-CoA as substrate, but did not significantly affect behaviour with chloramphenicol. This was manifest as an increase in the degree of the rate equation to a 2:2 function. This is interpreted in terms of perturbations to the enzyme at or near the acetyl-CoA binding region of the enzyme.Key words: acetyl coenzyme A, chloramphenicol, antibiotics, enzyme kinetics.


1980 ◽  
Vol 189 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Andersen

Studies of steady-state kinetics of fumarase in the usual substrate-concentration range from 0.1 Km to 10 Km and in the high substrate-concentration range from 10 Km to 200 Km are described. The purpose is to investigate reports of substrate inhibition and oscillatory kinetics. In the normal substrate-concentration range, no deviations from hyperbolic kinetics were found, and in the extended concentration range, up to more than 200 times the Km value, no substrate inhibition was demonstrated. A discussion of the discrepancies between the mentioned reports of deviations from the hyperbolic kinetics and the present findings is given.


1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
RD Teasdale ◽  
PD Jeffrey ◽  
PW Kuchel ◽  
LW Nichol

A method that permits the use of measurements on the concentration of the intermediate in a coupled enzymic assay in determining the presence or absence of an interaction between the enzymes is presented. The method is shown to be closely analogous to a previously formulated procedure involving the determination of the rate of production of the final product of such a sequence and is shown to be applicable regardless of the complexity of the operative kinetic mechanisms, provided it may be assumed that all enzyme-substrate complexes are in the steady-state. Kinetic results obtained with the arginase--ornithine carbamoyltransferase couple, in which the intermediate ornithine is monitored, are examined in these terms to conclude that no heterogeneous association is operative between the enzymes.


1977 ◽  
Vol 165 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
R N F Thorneley ◽  
A Cornish-Bowden

The effects of MgADP and MgATP on the kinetics of a pre-steady-state electron-transfer reaction and on the steady-state kinetics of H2 evulution for nitrogenase proteins of K. pneumoniae were studied. MgADP was a competitive inhibitor of MgATP in the MgATP-induced electron transfer from the Fe-protein to the Mo-Fe-protein. A dissociation constant K′i = 20 micron was determined for MgADP. The release of MgADP or a coupled conformation change in the Fe-protein of K.pneumoniae occurred with a rate comparable with that of electron transfer, k approximately 2 × 10(2)S-1. Neither homotropic nor heterotropic interactions involving MgATP and MgADP were observed for this reaction. Steady-state kinetic data for H2 evolution exhibited heterotropic effects between MgADP and MgATP. The data have been fitted to symmetry and sequential-type models involving conformation changes in two identical subunits. The data suggest that the enzyme can bind up to molecules of either MgATP or MgADP, but is unable to bind both nucleotides simultaneously. The control of H2 evolution by the MgATP/MgADP ratio is not at the level of electron transfer between the Fe- and Mo-Fe-proteins.


1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Christensen ◽  
H-H. Ipsen

The steady state kinetic parameters of plasmin and trypsin catalysed hydrolysis of Bz-L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, Bz-D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA and D-Val-Leu-Lys-pNA in the pH-range 6-9 are presented. Ionization of catalytically essential enzymic groups accounts satisfactorily for the pH-dependencies of the kinetic parameters for plas-rain and trypsin reactions with Bz-L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA, Bz-D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA and D-Val-Leu-Lys-pNA. The protonation of the α-amino group of L-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA and D-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA (pK=7.0) show some additional effect. The values of the catalytic constants for plasmin and trypsin reactions with these p-nitroanilides are alike those normally found for specific ester substrates, indicating that the deacylation steps are rate determining.


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