Organic reaction mechanisms
Much can be learned by studying organic
model reactions when compared to enzyme
catalyzed reactions.
1. Group transfer reactions
2. Oxidations and reductions
3. Eliminations, isomerizations and rearrangements
ATP
ATP is the energy carrier for most biological
reactions
ATP + H
2O -> ADP + P
i
Nucleophiles
R NH2 + H+ R N+ H H
H
R NH2 O R'
R''
R N C OH
R'' R' H
Basic reaction of amine
R NH2 O R'
R''
R N C OH
R'' R' H R N H R' R'' +
Amine Ketone or aldehyde
Carbinolamine intermediate
Imine
Group transfer reactions
Acetyl group transfer
Nucleophile attack on an acyl carbonyl to form a tetrahedral intermediate
Peptide bond hydrolysis Phosphoryl group transfer
nucleophile attack on a phosphate to yield a trigonal bipyramid intermediate
Kinase reactions involving transfer of phosphate from ATP to organic alcohols
Glycosyl group transfers
substitution of one group at the C1 carbon of a sugar for another
Thioesters (Acetyl-coenzyme A)
High energy compound
Carrier of acetyl and acyl groups Can be used to drive
Oxidations and reductions
Oxidation : Loss of Electrons
Reduction: Gain of Electrons
Many redox reactions involve the breaking of a C-H bond and the loss of two bonding electrons
Y + H O C
Electron transfer reactions to oxygen undergo transfer of
one electron at a time (Pauli exclusion principle)
Electron transfer reactions
B
A
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Work is non -pressure volume work or
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F = Faraday constant = 96,485 Coulombs per mole of electrons E0 = standard reduction potential or midpoint potential
Measuring potentials
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However, there is no absolute potential to reference!
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H
2e
2H
-
2At equilibrium and in contact with a platinum electrode and at 1 M H+ and STP this is defined as zero potential. At pH of 7.0 this is
-0.421 V = Eo´. Prime means that it is at pH 7.0.
Every thing is referenced to this potential
Metabolic pathways are irreversible
They have large negative free energy changes to
prevent them running at equilibrium
.If two pathways are interconvertible (from 1 to 2
or 2 to 1), the two pathways must be different!
1
A
2
X
Y
Independent routes means
independent control of
rates.
Every pathway has a first committed step
A committed step is an irreversible step that commits
the pathway to the synthesis of the end product. This
step is usually the regulated step in the pathway.
All metabolic pathways are regulated
Pathways in eukaryotic cells occur in
separate organelles or cellular locations
ATP is made in the mitochondria and used in the
cytosol. Fatty acids are make in the cytosol and
broken down in the mitochondria. Separation of
pathways exerts a greater control over opposing
Experimental approaches to study
metabolism
1. Sequence of reactions by which a nutrient is converted to end products
2. Mechanism by which an intermediate is turned into its successor.
3. Regulation of the flow of metabolites in a pathway.
Inhibitors and growth studies are used to see what is blocked. If a reaction pathway is inhibited products before the block increase and intermediates after the block decrease in
Glycolysis
The conversion of glucose to pyruvate to yield 2ATP
molecules
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10 enzymatic steps
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Chemical interconversion steps
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Mechanisms of enzyme conversion and intermediates
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Energetics of conversions
Historical perspective
Winemaking and baking industries
1854-1865 Louis Pasture established that microorganisms were responsible for fermentation.
1897 Eduard Buchner- cell free extracts carried out fermentation no “vital force” and put fermentation in the province of chemistry
1905 - 1910 Arthur Harden and William Young
• inorganic phosphate was required ie. fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
Inhibitors were used. Reagents are found that
inhibit the production of pathway products, thereby
causing the buildup of metabolites that can be
identified as pathway intermediates.
Fluoride- leads to the buildup of 3-phosphoglycerate
and 2-phosphoglycerate
Pathway overview
1. Add phosphoryl groups to activate glucose.
2. Convert the phosphorylated intermediates into high energy phosphate compounds.
3. Couple the transfer of the phosphate to ADP to form ATP.
Stage I A preparatory stage in which glucose is phosphorylated and cleaved to yield two molecules of
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate - uses two ATPs
Stage II glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate is converted to pyruvate with the concomitant generation of four ATPs-net profit is
2ATPs per glucose.
Oxidizing power of NAD+ must be recycled
1. Under anaerobic conditions in muscle NADH
reduces pyruvate to lactate (homolactic fermentation).
2. Under anaerobic conditions in yeast, pyruvate is
decarboxylated to yield CO
2and acetaldehyde and the
latter is reduced by NADH to ethanol and NAD+ is
regenerated (alcoholic fermentation).
3. Under aerobic conditions, the mitochondrial
oxidation of each NADH to NAD+ yields three ATPs
Hexokinase
Isozymes: Enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but
are different in their kinetic behavior
Tissue specific
Glucokinase- Liver controls blood glucose levels.
Hexokinase in muscle - allosteric inhibition by ATP
Hexokinase in brain - NO allosteric inhibition by ATP
O OH H OH OH H
CH2OH H H OH H O H OH H OH H OH H OH
CH2OPO3
2-H
+ ATP + ADP + H+
Glucose Glucose-6-phosphate
Hexokinase reaction mechanism is
RANDOM Bi-Bi
Glucose ATP ADP Glu-6-PO
4When ATP binds to hexokinase without glucose it does not
hydrolyze ATP. WHY?
The enzyme movement places the ATP in close
proximity to C
6H
2OH group of glucose and excludes
water from the active site.
There is a 40,000 fold
increase in ATP hydrolysis
upon binding xylose which
cannot be phosphorylated!
O OH H OH OH H H H
Yeast hexokinase, two lobes are gray and green.
Binding of glucose (purple) causes a large
conformational change. A substrate induced
Phosphoglucose Isomerase
Uses an “ ene dione intermediate
1) Substrate binding
2) Acid attack by H
2N-Lys opens the ring
3) Base unprotonated Glu abstracts proton from C2
4) Proton exchange
5) Ring closure
OH CH2OH
H
OH H
H O -2O
3POCH2
HO O H OH H OH OH H OH
CH2OPO3
2-H
Phosphofructokinase
Fructose-6-PO
4Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
1.) Rate limiting step in glycolysis
2.) Irreversible step, can not go the other way
3.) The control point for glycolysis
OH CH2OH
H
OH H
H O -2O
3POCH2
HO
OH
CH2OPO3-2
H
OH H
H O -2O
3POCH2
HO
+ ATP Mg + ADP
Aldolase
CH2OPO3-2 C O C C C H HO OH H OH H
CH2OPO3-2
CH2OPO3-2 C O C H HO H C OH H
CH2OPO3-2
H O
+
Dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (GAP) Fructose -1,6-bisphosphate (FBP)There are two classes of Aldolases
Class I animals and plants - Schiff base intermediate
Step 1 Substrate binding
Step 2 FBP carbonyl groups reacts with amino LYS to
form iminium cation (Schiff base)
Step 3. C3-C4 bond cleavage resulting enamine and
release of GAP
Step 4 protonation of the enamine to a iminium cation
Step 5 Hydrolysis of iminium cation to release DHAP
C14 NH
CH2OH CH2OPO3-2
(CH2)4 Lys C14 NH3
CH2OH CH2OPO3-2
(CH2)4 Lys
H
Class II enzymes are found in fungi and algae and
do not form a Schiff base. A divalent cation usually
a Zn
+2polarizes the carbonyl intermediate
.Probably the occurrence of two classes is a metabolic
redundancy that many higher organisms replaced
with the better mechanism.
CH2OPO3-2 C O
C HO
H
Zn2+
-
HO HC O Zn2+ CH2OPO3
-Aldolase is very stereospecific
When condensing DHAP with GAP four possible
products can form depending on the whether the
pro
-S or
pro
R hydrogen is removed on the C3 of DHAP
and whether the
re
or
si
face of GAP is attacked.
CH2OPO3
2-H HO OH H OH H
CH2OPO3 2-O
CH2OPO3
2-OH H OH H OH H
CH2OPO3 2-O
D-Fructose 1,6 bisphosphate
D-Psicose 1,6 bisphosphate
CH2OPO3
2-H HO H HO OH H
CH2OPO3 2-O
CH2OPO3
2-OH H H HO OH H
CH2OPO3 2-O
D-Tagatose 1,6 bisphosphate
Triosephosphate isomerase
DHAP GAP
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DHAP
GAP
K
eq
2
TIM is a perfect enzyme which its rate is diffusion
controlled.
TIM has an enediol intermediate
Transition state analogues Phosphoglycohydroxamate (A) and 2-phosphoglycolate (B) bind to TIM 155 and 100 times stronger than GAP of DHAP
H
C
O
CH2OPO3 2-OH
H C
CH2OPO3 2-OH
H
C C
CH2OPO3
2-O
OH
H
H H OH
GAP enediol DHAP
CH2OPO3 2-O
-N OH
C
O32-POH2C
O -H
HO
O32-POH2C O -O
TIM has an extended “low barrier”
hydrogen bond transition state
Geometry of the eneolate intermediate
prevents formation of methyl glyoxal