Enzyme Catalysis
General Properties of Enzymes
•Increased reaction rates sometimes 106 to 1012 increase
Enzymes do not change G just the reaction rates. •Milder reaction conditions
•Great reaction specificity
Substrate specificity
The non-covalent bonds and forces are maximized to bind substrates with considerable specificity
•Van der Waals forces
•electrostatic bonds (ionic interactions) •Hydrogen bonding
•Hydrophobic interaction
A + B P + Q
Substrates Products
NAD
CH
CH
NADH
H
OH
CH
CH
3 2 3O
Enzymes are Stereospecific
Yeast
N C H NH2 O +
CH
3C
D
2OH +
N C H NH2 O D
CH
3C-
D
O
+
Pro-
R hydrogen gets pulled off
Ox.
Red.
NADD
NAD
+2. NAD
D
+ CH
3-C-H
O
C
H D
OH
CH3
C H
D
OH
CH3
3. CH3-C
-D
+ NADH
O
If the other enantiomer is used, the D is not transferred
Both the Re and Si faced transfers yield identical
products. However, most reactions that have an Keq for reduction >10-12 use the pro-R hydrogen while those
reactions with a Keq <10-10 use the pro-S hydrogen.
Specific residues help maintain
stereospecificity
Liver alcohol dehydrogenase makes a mistake
1 in 7 billion turnovers. Mutating Leu 182 to
Ala increases the mistake rate to 1 in 850,000.
This is a 8000 fold increase in the mistake rate,
Geometric specificity
Selective about identities of chemical groups but
Enzymes are generally not molecule specific
Similar shaped molecules can be highly toxic
N
C H
NH2
O
+
N
N CH3
Tobacco Nicotine
Because of this closeness in name
Coenzymes
Coenzymes: smaller molecules that aid in enzyme chemistry. Enzymes can:
a. Carry out acid-base reactions b. Transient covalent bonds
c. Charge-charge interactions Enzymes can not do:
d. Oxidation -Reduction reactions e. Carbon group transfers
Prosthetic group - permanently associated with an enzyme or transiently associated.
Commom Coenzymes
Coenzyme Reaction mediated
Biotin Carboxylation
Cobalamin (B12) Alkylation transfers
Coenzyme A Acyl transfers
Flavin Oxidation-Reduction
Lipoic acid Acyl transfers
Nicotinamide Oxidation-Reduction Pyridoxal Phosphate Amino group transfers
Vitamins are Coenzyme precursors
Vitamin Coenzyme Deficiency Disease Biotin Biocytin not observed Cobalamin (B12) Cobalamin Pernicious anemia Folic acid tetrahydrofolate Neural tube defects
Megaloblastic anemia Nicotinamide Nicotinamide Pellagra
These are water soluble vitamins. The Fat soluble vitamins are vitamins A and D.
Humans can not synthesize these and relay on their
presence in our diets. Those who have an unbalanced diet may not be receiving a sufficient supply.
Niacin (niacinamide) deficiency leads to pellagra
Regulation of Enzymatic Activity
There are two general ways to control enzymatic activity. 1. Control the amount or availability of the enzyme. 2. Control or regulate the enzymes catalytic activity. Each topic can be subdivided into many different
categories.
Enzyme amounts in a cell depend upon the rate in which it is synthesized and the rate it is degraded. Synthesis rates can be transcriptionally or translationally controlled.
The catalytic activity of an enzyme can be altered either positively (increasing activity) or negatively (decreasing activity) through conformational
alterations or structural (covalent) modifications.
Examples already encountered is oxygen, carbon dioxide, or BPG binding to hemoglobin.
Also, substrate binding to the enzyme may also be modified by small molecule effectors changing its catalytic site.
Protein phosphorylation of Ser residues can activate or deactivate enzymes. These are generally
Aspartate Transcarbamoylase:
the first step in pyrimidine biosynthesis.
C O
NH2
OPO3
--CH2 C C H O O -COO -H3N+
CH2 C C H O O -COO -N C O NH2 H + + ATCase
H2PO4
-Carbamoyl Aspartate N--Carbamoyl aspartate phosphate
Notice the S shaped curve (pink) cooperative binding of aspartate
Positively homotropic cooperative binding
Hetertropically inhibited by CTP
Feedback inhibition
Where the product of a metabolic pathway inhibits is own
synthesis at the beginning or first
CTP is the product of this pathway and it is also a
precursor for the synthesis of DNA and RNA (nucleic acids). The rapid synthesis of DNA and/or RNA
depletes the CTP pool in the cell, causing CTP to be
released from ATCase and increasing its activity. When the activity of ATCase is greater than the need for CTP, CTP concentrations rise rapidly and rebinds to the
enzyme to inhibit the activity.
Enzymatic catalysis and mechanisms
•A. Acid - Base catalysis •B. Covalent catalysis
•C. Metal ion aided catalysis •D. Electrostatic interactions
•E. Orientation and Proximity effects
•F. Transition state binding General Acid Base
Rate increase by partial proton abstraction by a Bronsted base or
D glucose
k
D glucose
obs
dt d
v
Mutarotation of glucose by acid and base catalysts
Kobs = apparent first order kinetics but increases with increased concentrations of acid and base.
The acid HA donates a proton to ring oxygen, while the base abstracts a proton from the OH on carbon 1. To form the linear form. The cycle reverses itself after
This compound does not undergo mutarotation in aprotic solvents. Aprotic solvents have no acid or base groups i.e. Dimethyl sulfoxide or dimethyl formamide. Yet the reaction is catalyzed by
phenol, a weak acid and pyridine, a weak base
The reaction can be catalyzed by the addition of
-Pyridone as follows
v=k'[-pyridone][TM-a-D-glucose]
k' = 7000M x k or 1M -pyridone equals
Many biochemical reactions require acid
base catalysis
•Hydrolysis of peptides
•Reactions with Phosphate groups •Tautomerizations
•Additions to carboxyl groups
Asp, Glu, His, Cys, Tyr, and Lys have pK’s near
physiological pH and can assist in general acid-base catalysis.
Two histidine residues catalyze the
reaction. Residue His 12 is deprotonated and acts as a general base by abstracting a proton from the 2' OH.
His 119 is protonated and acts as a general acid catalysis by donating a proton to the phosphate group.
Covalent catalysis
Covalent catalysis involves the formation of a
transient covalent bond between the catalyst and
Catalysis has both an nucleophilic and an electrophilic stage 1 Nucleophilic reaction forms the covalent bond
Depending on the rate limiting step a covalent
catalytic reaction can be either elecrophilic or
nucleophilic. Decarboxylation by primary amines
are electrophilic because the nucleophilic step of
Schiff base formation is very fast.
Nucleophilicity is related to the basicity but
instead of abstracting a proton it attacks and forms
a covalent bond
.Lysines are common in formation of schiff bases while thiols and imidazoles acids and hydroxyls also have
properties that make good covalent catalysts
Metal ion catalysts
One-third of all known enzymes needs metal ions to work!!
1. Metalloenzymes: contain tightly bound metal ions: I.e. Fe++, Fe+++, Cu++, Zn++, Mn++, or Co++.
2. Metal-activated enzymes- loosely bind ions Na+, K+, Mg+ +, or Ca++.
They participate in one of three ways:
a. They bind substrates to orient then for catalysis
b. Through redox reactions gain or loss of electrons. c. electrostatic stabilization or negative charge
Metal ions are effective
catalysts because unlike
protons the can be
present at higher
concentrations at
Metal ions can ionize water at higher
concentrations
The charge on a metal ion makes a bound water more acidic than free H2O and is a source of HO- ions even
below pH 7.0
NH
Co
H O
NH
Co3
OH- H5 3 2
3 5
3
Carbonic Anhydrase
H
O
HCO
H
Proximity and orientation effects
k
imidizole
p NO Ac
k
p NO Ac
dt
O NO
p d
2 1
2 1
2
k'
1= 0.0018s
-1when [imidazole] = 1M
When the phenyl acetate form is used
k
2= 0.043 or 24k'
1•Reactants are about the same size as water molecules (approximation)
•Each species has 12 nearest neighbors (packed spheres) •Reactions only occur between molecules in contact
•Reactant conc. Is low so only one can be in contact at a time
B
A
B
A
k1
pairs 2
1 A B k A,B
k dt B A d v
55.5M
B
A
12
B
A,
pairs
pairs 1
pairs1
55.5
12
A,
B
4.6k
A,
B
k
Only a 4.6 rate enhancement but molecular motions if slowed down leads to a decrease in entropy and rate enhancements.
Preferential transition state binding
Binding to the transition state with greater affinity to either the product or reactants.
RACK MECHANISM
Strain promotes faster rates
The strained reaction more closely resembles the transition state and interactions that preferentially
bind to the transition state will have faster rates
EP
ES
P
S
E N
k
k
kN for uncatalyzed reactionand
EP
ES
ES
K
K
E
P
E
S
S
E
E NK
T
R
K
‡ ‡ ‡ ‡
E
S
ES
K
R
E S ESKT
‡
‡
S
E
S
E
NK
‡ ‡
ES
ES
K
E‡
‡
N
E
S
k
T
S
T
K
S
k
v
N
N
B
N
h
k
h
B
‡ ‡
ES
k
T
K
ES
T
k
v
E
B
B
E
Preferential transition state binding
The more tightly an enzyme binds its reaction’s
transition state (K
T) relative to the substrate
(K
R) , the greater the rate of the catalyzed
reaction (k
E) relative to the uncatalyzed
reaction (k
N)
Catalysis results from the preferred binding
RT G GN Eexp
k
k
N
E 10
6 rate enhancement
requires a 106 higher
affinity which is 34.2 kJ/mol
The enzyme binding of a transition state (ES‡ ) by two
hydrogen bonds that cannot form in the Michaelis Complex (ES) should result in a rate enhancement of 106 based on this