scholarly journals L-Cysteine as an Irreversible Inhibitor of the Peroxidase-Mimic Catalytic Activity of 2-Dimensional Ni-Based Nanozymes

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1285
Author(s):  
Piyumi Dinusha Liyanage ◽  
Pabudi Weerathunge ◽  
Mandeep Singh ◽  
Vipul Bansal ◽  
Rajesh Ramanathan

The ability to modulate the catalytic activity of inorganic nanozymes is of high interest. In particular, understanding the interactions of inhibitor molecules with nanozymes can bring them one step closer to the natural enzymes and has thus started to attract intense interest. To date, a few reversible inhibitors of the nanozyme activity have been reported. However, there are no reports of irreversible inhibitor molecules that can permanently inhibit the activity of nanozymes. In the current work, we show the ability of L-cysteine to act as an irreversible inhibitor to permanently block the nanozyme activity of 2-dimensional (2D) NiO nanosheets. Determination of the steady state kinetic parameters allowed us to obtain mechanistic insights into the catalytic inhibition process. Further, based on the irreversible catalytic inhibition capability of L-cysteine, we demonstrate a highly specific sensor for the detection of this biologically important molecule.

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1928-1930 ◽  
Author(s):  
L H Bernstein

Abstract A steady-state kinetic method has been revised for measuring lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme activities, which relates the inhibition of heart-type isoenzyme activity to the overall isoenzyme composition of the enzyme subunits. The method depends on the pH-dependent formation of an inhibitory ternary complex by the heart-type isoenzyme with NAD+ and pyruvate (if the reaction is measured by NADH oxidation). A preincubation step in the previous method is eliminated. The isoenzymes are measured by measuring the reduction of pyruvate in two different concentrations, which favor either the total or fractional activity, depending on the concentrations of pyruvate and the percentage of heart-type subunits. The method has been adapted to a centrifugal analyzer, which has speeded automated isoenzyme determinations, with an accuracy comparable to that for electrophoretic methods.


1985 ◽  
Vol 231 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
S C Koerber ◽  
D J Hopper ◽  
W S McIntire ◽  
T P Singer

p-Cresol methylhydroxylases from four different pseudomonads differ in their isoelectric points and, to a lesser extent, in Mr values and substrate specificity. The enzymes from three species were isolated in homogeneous form, then resolved into their flavoprotein and cytochrome subunits, and the subunits were recombined to yield the nine possible hybrids (i.e. three intraspecies and six interspecies). The resulting flavocytochromes showed extensive similarities in steady-state kinetic parameters and in the dissociation constants of their subunits. Evidence is also presented that a fourth type of p-cresol methylhydroxylase, from Pseudomonas putida (N.C.I.B. 9869, form ‘B’), the subunits of which cannot be isolated by the isoelectric focusing technique used to separate the subunits of the other flavocytochromes, nevertheless dissociates slowly at high dilution. The dissociation is reflected by a decline of catalytic activity with time. This process for the ‘B’ enzyme is prevented by the presence of substrate or an excess of a cytochrome subunit isolated from another enzyme species. Incubation of the dissociated subunits with p-cresol brings about extensive, albeit incomplete, re-association and regeneration of activity.


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.


2005 ◽  
Vol 387 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. SIMM ◽  
E. Joel LOVERIDGE ◽  
John CROSBY ◽  
Matthew B. AVISON ◽  
Timothy R. WALSH ◽  
...  

Bulgecin A, a sulphonated N-acetyl-D-glucosamine unit linked to a 4-hydroxy-5-hydroxymethylproline ring by a β-glycosidic linkage, is a novel type of inhibitor for binuclear metallo-β-lactamases. Using steady-state kinetic analysis with nitrocefin as the β-lactam substrate, bulgecin A competitively inhibited the metallo-β-lactamase BceII from Bacillus cereus in its two-zinc form, but failed to inhibit when the enzyme was in the single-zinc form. The competitive inhibition was restored by restoring the second zinc ion. The single-zinc metallo-β-lactamase from Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria, ImiS, was not inhibited by bulgecin A. The tetrameric L1 metallo-β-lactamase from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia was subject to partial non-competitive inhibition, which is consistent with a kinetic model in which the enzyme bound to inhibitor retains catalytic activity. Docking experiments support the conclusion that bulgecin A co-ordinates to the zinc II site in metallo-β-lactamases via the terminal sulphonate group on the sugar moiety.


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