Kinetic Analysis of the General Modifier Mechanism of Botts and Morales Involving a Suicide Substrate

Suicide substrates are widely used in enzymology for studying enzyme mechanisms and designing potential drugs. The presence of a reversible modifier decreases or increases the rate of substrate-induced inactivation, with evident physiological and experimental consequences. To date, only the action o...

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Published in:Journal of theoretical biology 2002-10, Vol.218 (3), p.355-374
Main Authors: VARÓN, R., GARCÍA-CÁNOVAS, F., GARCÍA-MORENO, M., VALERO, E., MOLINA-ALARCÓN, M., GARCÍA-MESEGUER, M.J., VIDAL DE LABRA, J.A., GARRIDO-DEL SOLO, C.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Catalysis
Computer Simulation
Enzyme Activation
Enzyme Inhibitors - chemistry
Models, Chemical
Substrate Specificity
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Summary:Suicide substrates are widely used in enzymology for studying enzyme mechanisms and designing potential drugs. The presence of a reversible modifier decreases or increases the rate of substrate-induced inactivation, with evident physiological and experimental consequences. To date, only the action of a competitive or uncompetitive inhibitor of an enzyme system involving suicide substrate has been reported. In this paper, we analyse the kinetics of enzyme-catalysed reactions which evolve in accordance with the general modifier mechanisms of Botts and Morales in which enzyme inactivation is induced by suicide substrate. Rapid equilibrium of all of the reversible reaction steps involved is assumed and the time course equations for the residual enzyme activity, the inactive enzyme forms and the reaction product are derived. Partition ratios giving the relative weight of the product and inactive enzyme concentrations, and the relative contribution to the product formation of each of the unmodified and modified catalytic routes, are studied. New indices pointing to the conditions under which the modifier acts as inhibitor or as activator are suggested. The goodness of the analytical solutions is tested by comparison with the simulated curves obtained by numerical integration. An experimental design and kinetic data analysis to evaluate the kinetic parameters from the time progress curves of the product are proposed. From these results, those corresponding to several reaction mechanisms involving both a suicide substrate and a modifier, and which can be regarded as particular cases of the general case analysed here, can be directly and easily derived.
ISSN:0022-5193
1095-8541
DOI:10.1006/jtbi.2002.3083