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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-3-17
pubmed:abstractText
Bromopyruvate is a competitive inhibitor of maize leaf phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase with respect to phosphoenolpyruvate (Ki: 2.3 mM at pH 8). Relatively low concentrations of this compound completely and irreversibly inactivated the enzyme. The inactivation followed pseudo-first-order kinetics. The haloacid combines first with the carboxylase to give a reversible enzyme-bromopyruvate complex and then alkylates the enzyme. The maximum inactivation rate constant was 0.27 min-1 at pH 7.2 and 30 degrees C and the concentration of bromopyruvate giving half-maximum rate of inactivation was 1.8 mM. The inactivation was prevented by the substrate phosphoenolpyruvate, in the absence or presence of MgCl2, and by the competitive inhibitor P-glycolate. Malate afforded protection at pH 7 but not at pH 8. MgCl2 enhanced the inactivation when it was carried out at pH 7; its effect was mainly due to a decrease in the dissociation constant of the complex between bromopyruvate and the enzyme from 2 to 1.4 mM. This behavior was not observed at pH 8. Analysis of the inactivation at different pH suggests that a group of pKa near 7.5 is important for the binding of the reagent to the carboxylase. Determination of the number of sulfhydryl groups of the native and modified enzyme with [3H]-N-ethylmaleimide suggests that the inactivation correlates with the modification of thiol groups in the enzyme. The substrate prevented the modification of these groups. The results suggest that the alkylating reagent modifies cysteinyl residues at the phosphoenolpyruvate binding site of the carboxylase.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0003-9861
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
245
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
179-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Active-site-directed inhibition of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from maize leaves by bromopyruvate.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't