scholarly journals Evaluation of the extent of the binding site in human tissue kallikrein by synthetic substrates with sequences of human kininogen fragments

1995 ◽  
Vol 312 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Del Nery ◽  
J R Chagas ◽  
M A Juliano ◽  
E S Prado ◽  
L Juliano

We have synthesized internally quenched peptides spanning the Met379-Lys380 or Arg389-Ser390 bonds of human kininogen (hkng) that flank lysyl-bradykinin and have studied the kinetics of their hydrolysis by human tissue kallikrein. The kinetic data for the hydrolysis of the Met-Lys bond in substrates with an N-terminal extension showed that interactions up to position residue P10 contribute to the efficiency of cleavage. In contrast, there were no significant variations in the kinetic data for the hydrolysis of substrates with C-terminal extensions at sites P′4 to P′11. A similar pattern was observed for the cleavage of substrates containing an Arg-Ser bond because substrates extended up to residue P6 were hydrolysed with the highest kcat/Km values in the series, whereas those extended to P′11 on the C-terminal side had a lower susceptibility to hydrolysis. Time-course studies of hydrolysis by human and porcine tissue kallikreins of a Leu373 to Ile393 human kininogen fragment containing omicron-aminobenzoic acid (Abz) at the N-terminus and an amidated C-terminal carboxyl group Abz-Leu-Gly-Met-Ile-Ser-Leu-Met-Lys-Arg- Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg-Ser-Ser-Arg-Ile-NH2 (Abz-[Leu373-Ile393]-hkng-NH2) indicated that the cleavage of Met-Lys and Arg-Ser bonds in the same molecule occurs via the formation of independent enzyme-substrate complexes. The hydrolysis of Abz-F-R-S-S-R-Q-EDDnp [where EDDnp is N-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)ethylenediamine] and Abz-M-I-S-L-M-K-R-P-Q-EDDnp by human tissue kallikrein had maximal kcat/Km values at pH 9-9.5 for both substrates. The pH-dependent variations in this kinetic parameter were almost exclusively due to variations in kcat. A significant decrease in kcat/Km values was observed for the hydrolysis of Arg-Ser and Met-Lys bonds in the presence of 0.1 M NaCl. Because this effect was closely related to an increase in Km, it is likely that sodium competes with the positive charges of the substrate side chains for the same enzyme subsites.

2001 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 4648-4656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte A. Tuekam ◽  
Yong-Il Park ◽  
Clifford J. Unkefer ◽  
John E. Gander

ABSTRACT Extracellular Penicillium fellutanumexo-β-d-galactofuranosidase, with a mass of 70 kDa, was purified to apparent homogeneity. The enzyme was used to investigate the influence of phosphodiesters of the peptidophosphogalactomannans pP2GMii and pP25GMii(containing 2 and 25 phosphodiester residues, respectively, per mol of polymer) on the kinetic parameters of galactofuranosyl hydrolysis of these two polymers, of 1-O-methyl-β-d-galactofuranoside, and of two galactofuranooligosaccharides. The enzyme did not hydrolyze phosphorylated galactose residues of pP2GMii or pP25GMii. Thek cat/Km value for pP25GMii is 1.7 × 103M−1 s−1, that for 1-O-methyl-β-d-galactofuranoside is 1.1 × 104 M−1 s−1, that for pP2GMii is 1.7 × 10 4M−1 s−1, and those for 5-O-β-d-galactofuranooligosaccharides with degrees of polymerization of 3.4 and 5.5 are 1.7 × 105 and 4.1 × 105 M−1s−1, respectively. Variability in thek cat/Km values is due primarily to differences in Km values; thek −1/k 1 ratio likely provides the most influence on Km. k cat increases as the degree of polymerization of galactofuranosyl residues increases. Most of the galactofuranosyl and phosphocholine residues were removed by day 8 in vivo from pPxGMii added to day 3 cultures initiated in medium containing 2 mM phosphate but not from those initially containing 20 mM phosphate. The filtrates from day 9 cultures initiated in 2 mM inorganic phosphate in modified Raulin-Thom medium contained 0.2 mM inorganic phosphate and 2.2 U of galactofuranosidase ml−1h−1. No galactofuranosidase activity but 15 mM inorganic phosphate was found in filtrates from day 9 cultures initiated in 20 mM phosphate. In vivo the rate of galactofuranosyl hydrolysis of pPxGMii and of related polymers is proportional to thek cat/Km value of each polymer. The kinetic data show that thek cat/Km value increases as the number of phosphodiesters of pPxGMiidecreases, also resulting in an increase in the activity of exo-β-d-galactofuranosidase.


1982 ◽  
Vol 203 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
P R Levison ◽  
G Tomalin

Subsites in the S2-S4 region were identified in human plasma kallikrein. Kinetic constants (kcat., Km) were determined for a series of seven extended N-aminoacyl-L-arginine methyl esters based on the C-terminal sequence of bradykinin (-Pro-Phe-Arg) or (Gly)n-Arg. The rate-limiting step for the enzyme-catalysed reaction was found to be deacylation of the enzyme. It was possible to infer that hydrogen-bonded interactions occur between substrate and the S2-S4 region of kallikrein. Insertion of L-phenylalanine at residue P2 demonstrates that there is also a hydrophobic interaction with subsite S2, which stabilizes the enzyme-substrate complex. The strong interaction demonstrated between L-proline at residue P3 and subsite S3 is of greatest importance in the selectivity of human plasma kallikrein. The purification of kallikrein from Cohn fraction IV of human plasma is described making use of endogenous Factor XIIf to activate the prekallikrein. Kallikreins I (Mr 91 000) and II (Mr 85 000) were purified 170- and 110-fold respectively. Kallikrein I was used for the kinetic work.


2001 ◽  
Vol 357 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Mireia ABEL ◽  
Antoni PLANAS ◽  
Ulla CHRISTENSEN

In the present study the first stopped-flow experiments performed on Bacillus 1,3–1,4-β-glucanases are reported. The presteady-state kinetics of the binding of 4-methylumbelliferyl 3-O-β-cellobiosyl-β-d-glucoside to the inactive mutant E134A, and the wild-type-catalysed hydrolysis of the same substrate, were studied by measuring changes in the fluorescence of bound substrate or 4-methylumbelliferone produced. The presteady-state traces all showed an initial lag phase followed by a fast monoexponential phase leading to equilibration (for binding to E134A) or to steady state product formation (for the wild-type reaction). The lag phase, with a rate constant of the order of 100s−1, was independent of the substrate concentration; apparently an induced-fit mechanism governs the formation of enzyme–substrate complexes. The concentration dependencies of the observed rate constant of the second presteady-state phase were analysed according to a number of reaction models. For the reaction of the wild-type enzyme, it is shown that the fast product formation observed before steady state is not due to a rate-determining deglycosylation step. A model that can explain the observed results involves, in addition to the induced fit, a conformational change of the productive ES complex into a form that binds a second substrate molecule in a non-productive mode.


1993 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 1874-1884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iveta Vašutová ◽  
Milan Králik ◽  
Milan Hronec

Kinetic data of 1-pentanol dehydration on γ-alumina catalyst modified by potassium hydroxide were obtained using a continuous reactor with an internal recirculation. The conversion of 1-pentanol on this catalyst in the temperature range 300 - 390 °C and space velocity 1 - 8 kg (h kg)-1 (molar fraction of water in the feed was in the range 0 - 0.56) was 50 - 98% and the selectivity with respect to 1-pentene was 50 - 84%. The following six reactions have been taken into account to describe the catalytic dehydration of 1-pantanol: direct formation of 1-pentene from 1-pentanol, formation of bis(1-pentyl) ether from 1-pentanol, disproportionation of the ether to 1-pentanol and 1-pentene, formation of 1-pentene from the ether, isomerization of 1-pentene to 2-pentene and hydrolysis of the ether to 1-pentanol. Treatment of experimental data by Langmuir-Hinshelwood models showed that the model involving adsorption of 1-pentanol accompanied by dissociation is the most suitable one.


2004 ◽  
Vol 08 (11) ◽  
pp. 1269-1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahsan Habib ◽  
Masaaki Tabata ◽  
Ying Guang Wu

The kinetics of the reaction of the tetrakis(1-methylpyridium-4-yl)porphyrin tetracation, [ H 2( TMPyP )]4+, with gold(III) ions were studied along with equilibria of gold(III) species in aqueous medium at 25°C, I = 0.10 M ( NaNO 3). The equilibrium constants for the formation of [ AuCl 4-n( OH ) n ]- ( n = 0,…,4), defined as β n = [ AuCl 4- n ( OH ) n ]- [ Cl -] n / [ AuCl 4-][ OH -] n were found to be that log β1 = 7.94 ± 0.03, log β2 = 15.14 ± 0.03, log β3 = 21.30 ± 0.05 and log β4 = 26.88 ± 0.05. The overall reaction was first order with respect to each of the total [ Au (III)] and [ H 2 TMPyP 4+]. On the basis of pH dependence on rate constants and the hydrolysis of gold(III), the rate expression can be written as d [ Au ( TMPyP )5+]/ dt = ( k 1[ AuCl 4-] + k2[ AuCl 3( OH )-] + k3[ AuCl 2( OH )2-] + k4[ AuCl ( OH )3-])[ H 2 TMPyP 4+], where k1, k2, k3 and k4 were found to be (2.16 ± 0.31) × 10-1, (6.56 ± 0.19) × 10-1, (1.07 ± 0.24) × 10-1, and (0.29 ± 0.21) × 10-1 M -1. s -1, respectively. The kinetic data revealed that the trichloromonohydroxogold(III) species, [ AuCl 3( OH )]-, is the most reactive. The higher reactivity of [ AuCl 3( OH )]- is explained by hydrogen bonding formation between the hydroxyl group of [ AuCl 3( OH )]- and the pyrrole hydrogen atom of [ H 2( TMPyP )]4+. Furthermore, applying the Fuoss equation to the observed rate constants at different ionic strengths, the apparent net charge of [ H 2( TMPyP )]4+ was calculated to be +3.5.


1973 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Tomašić ◽  
D. Keglević

1. The relative rates of hydrolysis of synthetically prepared β-d-glucuronic esters [aglycone: benzoic acid, veratroic (3,4-dimethoxybenzoic) acid, indol-3-ylacetic acid and ethylbutyric acid], and β-d-glucuronic ethers (aglycone: phenolphthalein, p-nitrophenol, 3,4-dimethoxyphenol, 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol) by commercial preparations of β-glucuronidase from bovine liver and Escherichia coli were investigated. The rates of hydrolysis of all compounds tested were followed by measuring the formation of glucuronic acid under conditions which do not affect the glycosidic ester bond. 2. The pH profiles of the substrates in reaction with the enzyme from both sources were determined, and substrate-saturation curves at the optimal pH for each substrate were constructed; double-reciprocal plots of activity against concentration were linear. 3. Comparison of kinetic data indicates that neither the type of sugar–aglycone linkage, nor the aglycone structure alone can explain the observed Km and Vmax. values. 4. α-d-Glucuronic esters of benzoic and veratroic acid resisted hydrolysis by β-glucuronidase from both sources.


1984 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
N E Mackenzie ◽  
J P Malthouse ◽  
A I Scott

The kinetics of the trypsin-catalysed hydrolysis of the highly specific substrate N alpha-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine p-nitrophenyl ester were studied under cryoenzymological conditions by 13C-n.m.r. spectroscopy at pH approx. 3.0. The kinetics of this reaction are shown to be in agreement with similar studies made with the use of u.v.-visible-absorption-spectrophotometric techniques. A combination of 13C-n.m.r. spectroscopy and cryoenzymology has for the first time detected an acyl-trypsin intermediate in the hydrolysis of this highly specific substrate. The advantages and difficulties of using 13C-n.m.r. spectroscopy coupled with cryoenzymology in the detection and characterization of enzyme-substrate intermediates are discussed.


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