scholarly journals Photoenzymatic Repair of Ultraviolet Damage in DNA

1962 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claud S. Rupert
Keyword(s):  
Dna Repair ◽  
Competitive Inhibition ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Reaction Scheme ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Light Intensities ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Ultraviolet Damage ◽  
Kinetics Of

As previously reported, ultraviolet-inactivated bacterial transforming DNA can be restored to activity by an enzyme-like agent from bakers' yeast which requires light for its activity. Kinetics of this reaction, in the presence and absence of inhibitors, are found consistent with the Michaelis-Menten reaction scheme, with the sites of ultraviolet damage on the DNA serving as substrate and the repaired structure as product. Kinetic studies with different light intensities suggest that the necessary illumination causes photolysis of the enzyme-substrate complex with concurrent repair of the DNA. Competitive inhibition of irradiated transforming DNA repair, which occurs when irradiated non-transforming DNA is present in the same reaction mixture, permits ultraviolet damage (of the kind capable of being photoreactivated) to be detected in any type of DNA.

scholarly journals Photoenzymatic Repair of Ultraviolet Damage in DNA

1962 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claud S. Rupert
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Quantum Yield ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Order Rate Constant ◽  
Reaction Scheme ◽  
First Order ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Exponential Decrease ◽  
Ultraviolet Damage

The photoenzyme from bakers' yeast which repairs ultraviolet-inactivated transforming DNA is mechanically bound to ultraviolet-irradiated DNA in the dark, but not to unirradiated DNA. In the bound condition it is stabilized against inactivation by heat and heavy metals. Both the mechanical binding and stabilization are eliminated by illumination. These observations are consistent with the reaction scheme suggested by kinetic studies, in which the enzyme combines with the ultraviolet lesions in DNA and the complex absorbs light, producing repair and subsequent liberation of the enzyme. The approximately exponential decrease of heat stabilization during illumination gives the first order rate constant for the light-dependent step at the corresponding light intensity. This quantity in turn sets limits on the possible magnitude of the molar absorption coefficient of the enzyme-substrate complex and on the quantum yield of the process.

scholarly journals Allosteric Enzyme-Based Biosensors—Kinetic Behaviours of Immobilised L-Lysine-α-Oxidase from Trichoderma viride: pH Influence and Allosteric Properties

Biosensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Antonio Guerrieri ◽  
Rosanna Ciriello ◽  
Giuliana Bianco ◽  
Francesca De Gennaro ◽  
Silvio Frascaro
Keyword(s):  
Trichoderma Viride ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Pt Electrode ◽  
Allosteric Enzyme ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Ph Influence ◽  
Ph Dependent ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Allosteric Properties

The present study describes the kinetics of L-lysine-α-oxidase (LO) from Trichoderma viride immobilised by co-crosslinking onto the surface of a Pt electrode. The resulting amperometric biosensor was able to analyse L-lysine, thus permitting a simple but thorough study of the kinetics of the immobilised enzyme. The kinetic study evidenced that LO behaves in an allosteric fashion and that cooperativity is strongly pH-dependent. Not less important, experimental evidence shows that cooperativity is also dependent on substrate concentration at high pH and behaves as predicted by the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model for allosteric enzymes. According to this model, the existence of two different conformational states of the enzyme was postulated, which differ in Lys species landing on LO to form the enzyme–substrate complex. Considerations about the influence of the peculiar LO kinetics on biosensor operations and extracorporeal reactor devices will be discussed as well. Not less important, the present study also shows the effectiveness of using immobilised enzymes and amperometric biosensors not only for substrate analysis, but also as a convenient tool for enzyme kinetic studies.

scholarly journals Kinetics of inactivation of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A by bromopyruvic acid

1996 ◽  
Vol 320 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Hua WANG ◽  
Zhi-Xin WANG ◽  
Kang-Yuan ZHAO
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Inhibition ◽  
Ribonuclease A ◽  
Inactivation Kinetics ◽  
Ionization State ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Irreversible Inhibition ◽  
Enzyme Product ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Pancreatic Ribonuclease A ◽  
Kinetics Of

The kinetic theory of substrate reaction during the modification of enzyme activity [Duggleby (1986) J. Theor. Biol. 123, 67–80; Wang and Tsou (1990) J. Theor. Biol. 142, 531–549] has been applied to a study of the inactivation kinetics of ribonuclease A by bromopyruvic acid. The results show that irreversible inhibition belongs to a non-competitive complexing type inhibition. On the basis of the kinetic equation of substrate reaction in the presence of the inhibitor, all microscopic kinetic constants for the free enzyme, the enzyme–substrate complex and the enzyme–product complex have been determined. The non-competitive inhibition type indicates that neither the substrate nor the product affects the binding of bromopyruvic acid to the enzyme and that the ionization state of His-119 may be the same in both the enzyme–substrate and the enzyme–product complexes.

Kinetic studies of prothrombin activation: effect of factor Va and phospholipids on formation of the enzyme-substrate complex

Biochemistry ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 23 (20) ◽  
pp. 4557-4564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan L. M. L. Van Rijn ◽  
Jose W. P. Govers-Riemslag ◽  
Robert F. A. Zwaal ◽  
Jan Rosing
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Activation Effect ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Factor Va ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Prothrombin Activation

scholarly journals The kinetics of hydrolysis of some extended N-aminoacyl-l-arginine methyl esters by human plasma kallikrein. Evidence for subsites S2 and S3

1982 ◽  
Vol 203 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
P R Levison ◽  
G Tomalin
Keyword(s):  
Human Plasma ◽  
Methyl Esters ◽  
Plasma Kallikrein ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Kinetics Of Hydrolysis ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

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.

scholarly journals The effect of pH on the kinetics of arylsulphatases A and B

1983 ◽  
Vol 213 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
C O'Fagain ◽  
B M Butler ◽  
T J Mantle
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Activity ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Substrate Binding ◽  
Acid Base ◽  
Effect Of Ph ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
General Acid ◽  
Kinetics Of

The effect of pH on the kinetics of rat liver arylsulphatases A and B is very similar and shows that two groups with pK values of 4.4-4.5 and 5.7-5.8 are important for enzyme activity. Substrate binding has no effect on the group with a pK of 4.4-4.5; however, the pK of the second group is shifted to 7.1-7.5 in the enzyme-substrate complex. An analysis of the effect of pH on the Ki for sulphate inhibition suggests that HSO4-is the true product. A model is proposed that involves the two ionizing groups identified in the present study in a concerted general acid-base-catalysed mechanism.

On the molecular specificity of steroid-enzyme combinations. The kinetics of β -hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase

1955 ◽  
Vol 144 (914) ◽  
pp. 116-132 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Molecular Specificity ◽  
Planar Molecules ◽  
High Concentrations ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Androstane Derivatives ◽  
Marked Tendency

β -Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase is a purified enzymic protein of bacterial origin which catalyzes oxidations of 3 β - and 17 β -hydroxysteroids to their respective ketones with diphosphopyridine nucleotide as a hydrogen acceptor. The reaction kinetics of this enzyme with a variety of steroids are not in accordance with the predictions of the theory of Michaelis & Menten (1913), since the velocity of oxidation shows a marked tendency to decline at high concentrations of substrate. The behaviour of these compounds may be fully analyzed on the assumption of the formation of an enzyme-substrate complex involving two substrate molecules. The theory for bimolecular complex formation and its implications are examined. Affinity constants have been calculated for various steroids and conclusions drawn as to the structural requirements favouring attachment to the enzyme surface. Phenolic compounds of the oestra-1:3:5(10)-triene-3-ol family are most firmly bound. Planar molecules of the androst-4-ene, androst-5-ene or 5 α -androstane series show intermediate affinity, while testane (5 β -androstane) derivatives which deviate considerably from planarity are most poorly bound to the enzyme surface. The presence of oxygenated functions at positions 3 and 17 promotes high affinity, whereas an additional 11 α - or 11 β ?-hydroxyl group opposes this effect. Conclusions have been drawn as to the manner of attachment of substrates to the enzyme surface. Certain correlations between the molecular requirements for efficient binding of steroids to the enzyme surface and their physiological activities are demonstrated.

Kinetics of piasminogen-activation. Effects of ligands binding to the AH-site of plasminogen

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulla Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Ligand Binding ◽  
Binding Site ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Specific Substrate ◽  
Activation Reaction ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Kinetics Of

Detailed kinetic studies of the urokinase catalysed conversion of Lys-77- and Val-440-plasminogens in the presence and absence of ligands binding to the AH-site of the plasminogens shows that the effects of such ligand-binding correspond with a model of the activation reaction in which the effective Km and kc decreases, but kc/Km increases when the ligands bind. Apparently plasminogen with a free AH-site is a less specific substrate for urokinase, than is plasminogen with an AH-site-bound ligand.The AH-site is a weak lysine binding site of plasminogen located in the mini plasminogen part (Val-440-Asn-790) of plasminogen and is suggested to participate in the binding of the plasminogens to undegraded fibrin.

Synthesis and Kinase Phosphorylation of 4-Deoxy-D-threohexulose

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 969-972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford Raymond Haylock ◽  
Keith Norman Slessor
Keyword(s):  
Lithium Aluminum Hydride ◽  
Aluminum Hydride ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Lithium Aluminum ◽  
Substrate Complex ◽  
Acetobacter Suboxydans ◽  
Enzyme Substrate ◽  
Kinase Phosphorylation ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Yeast Hexokinase

Synthesis of the only unknown deoxyfructose, 4-deoxy-D-threohexulose, is reported. Its preparation involved reductive lithium aluminum hydride ring opening of 3,4-anhydro-1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene- D-talitol, followed by hydrolysis of the resulting epimeric deoxy diisopropylidene hexitols and selective Acetobacter suboxydans oxidation of 3-deoxy-D-arabinohexitol. Kinetic studies using 4-deoxy-D-threohexulose as substrate for yeast hexokinase support the premise that the C-4 hydroxyl is a binding group in formation of the enzyme–substrate complex. Enzymatic synthesis of 4-deoxy-D-threohexulose 6-phosphate and 4-deoxy-D-threohexulose 1,6-diphosphate has been achieved in low yield from 4-deoxy-D-threohexulose.

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