scholarly journals Substrate-Dependent Sensitivity of SIRT1 to Nicotinamide Inhibition

Biomolecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 312
Author(s):  
Stacia Rymarchyk ◽  
Wenjia Kang ◽  
Yana Cen

SIRT1 is the most extensively studied human sirtuin with a broad spectrum of endogenous targets. It has been implicated in the regulation of a myriad of cellular events, such as gene transcription, mitochondria biogenesis, insulin secretion as well as glucose and lipid metabolism. From a mechanistic perspective, nicotinamide (NAM), a byproduct of a sirtuin-catalyzed reaction, reverses a reaction intermediate to regenerate NAD+ through “base exchange”, leading to the inhibition of the forward deacetylation. NAM has been suggested as a universal sirtuin negative regulator. Sirtuins have evolved different strategies in response to NAM regulation. Here, we report the detailed kinetic analysis of SIRT1-catalyzed reactions using endogenous substrate-based synthetic peptides. A novel substrate-dependent sensitivity of SIRT1 to NAM inhibition was observed. Additionally, SIRT1 demonstrated pH-dependent deacetylation with normal solvent isotope effects (SIEs), consistent with proton transfer in the rate-limiting step. Base exchange, in contrast, was insensitive to pH changes with no apparent SIEs, indicative of lack of proton transfer in the rate-limiting step. Consequently, NAM inhibition was attenuated at a high pH in proteated buffers. Our study provides new evidence for “activation by de-repression” as an effective sirtuin activation strategy.

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 1933
Author(s):  
Patrick L. Fernandez ◽  
Andrew S. Murkin

Solvent isotope effects have long been used as a mechanistic tool for determining enzyme mechanisms. Most commonly, macroscopic rate constants such as kcat and kcat/Km are found to decrease when the reaction is performed in D2O for a variety of reasons including the transfer of protons. Under certain circumstances, these constants are found to increase, in what is termed an inverse solvent kinetic isotope effect (SKIE), which can be a diagnostic mechanistic feature. Generally, these phenomena can be attributed to an inverse solvent equilibrium isotope effect on a rapid equilibrium preceding the rate-limiting step(s). This review surveys inverse SKIEs in enzyme-catalyzed reactions by assessing their underlying origins in common mechanistic themes. Case studies for each category are presented, and the mechanistic implications are put into context. It is hoped that readers may find the illustrative examples valuable in planning and interpreting solvent isotope effect experiments.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (52) ◽  
pp. 16208-16209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Davydov ◽  
Toshitaka Matsui ◽  
Hiroshi Fujii ◽  
Masao Ikeda-Saito ◽  
Brian M. Hoffman

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (47) ◽  
pp. 24358-24366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Li ◽  
Huan Shang ◽  
Yuchen Shi ◽  
Rositsa Yakimova ◽  
Mikael Syväjärvi ◽  
...  

Preferential exposure of Si-face of SiC will mechanistically shift the rate limiting step of water oxidation from sluggish proton-coupled electron transfer on C-face to a more energy-favorable electron transfer.


1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kaválek ◽  
Vladimír Macháček ◽  
Makky M. M. Hassanien ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba

The reaction of N-methyl-N-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)glycinamide (Ic with methoxide in methanol produces the spiro adduct IIc(A). In methanolic acetate buffers, the equilibrium is rapidly established between the spiro adduct IIc(A) and the dipolar ion of 2-methylamino-N-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)acetamide (IIIc(Z)). The equilibrium constant of the reaction IIIc(Z) ⇆ IIc(A) + H+ is by eight orders of magnitude greater than that of the analogous cyclization of 2-methylamino-N-methyl-N-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)acetamide to the spiro adduct. In chloracetate buffers, the dipolar ion is protonated to give 2-methylammonium-N-(2,4,6-trinitrohenyl)acetamide IIIc(K). The kinetics of the reversible reaction IIIc(Z) ⇆ IIc(A) + H+ has been studied in acetate buffers, aliphatic amine – ammonium salt buffers, and methoxide solutions. In all cases, the rate-limiting step was the proton transfer with half-lives in milliseconds. In more basic methanolic buffers (pH > 10) the rate-limiting step consists in the formation of spiro adduct from the zwiterion IIIc(Z) resulting from the protonation of the anion IIIc(A). n acetate buffers, the second reaction pathway via the cation IIIc(K) is predominant.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (38) ◽  
pp. 22199-22201
Author(s):  
Charles L. Perrin

The referenced article in PCCP presents calculations of solvent kinetic isotope effects that indicate that the rate-limiting step in base-catalyzed chalcone formation in aqueous solution becomes the second enolization.


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