One-substrate enzyme kinetics

A linear reciprocal transformation of a function of the form [f(a) = a/(l + a)], such that l/f(a) is plotted on the vertical axis and 1/a is plotted on the horizontal axis. In the case of one-substrate enzyme kinetics, the hyperbolic function is ... 

The Michaelis-Menten equation, especially if derived with the steady-state concept as above, is a rigorous rate law which not only fits almost all one-substrate enzyme kinetics, except in the case of inhibition (see Section 5.3), but also allows identification of the kinetic constants with the elementary steps in Eq. (5.1). 

One-substrate enzyme kinetics are applied to many reactions that require water as a cosubstrate, that is, the hydrolases (such as esterases and proteases), since aqueous solutions have a water concentration of 55.6 M. The kinetic model is based on the initial formation of the enzyme-substrate complex, with the rate constants as shown in Eq. 2.11. 

This equation is fundamental to all aspects of the kinetics of enzyme action. The Michaelis-Menten constant, KM, is defined as the concentration of the substrate at which a given enzyme yields one-half of its maximum velocity. is the maximum velocity, which is the rate approached at infinitely high substrate concentration. The Michaelis-Menten equation is the rate equation for a one-substrate enzyme-catalyzed reaction. It provides the quantitative calculation of enzyme characteristics and the analysis for a specific substrate under defined conditions of pH and temperature. KM is a direct measure of the strength of the binding between the enzyme and the substrate. For example, chymotrypsin has a Ku value of 108 mM when glycyltyrosinylglycine is used as its substrate, while the Km value is 2.5 mM when N-20 benzoyltyrosineamide is used as a substrate... 

Therefore, our concept of the activation volume is very vague, but it certainly improves if defined in relation to a specified model of the reaction. At this point the use of activation quantities in enzyme kinetics departs from common usage in less complex mechanisms. For the simplest one-substrate enzyme reaction, it can easily be imagined that the process occurs in at least two steps ... 

Most kinetic studies of enzymes are conducted under conditions where substrate concentration spans the upper and lower sides of the Michaelis constant, Km. The most general form of kinetic expression for a one-substrate enzyme is given as... 

These kinetic studies on mandelate racemase were interpreted by assuming a simple Michaelis-Menten kinetic scheme for this one-substrate enzymic reaction. This assumption has recently received some experimental verification. ... 

In this chapter we described the thermodynamics of enzyme-inhibitor interactions and defined three potential modes of reversible binding of inhibitors to enzyme molecules. Competitive inhibitors bind to the free enzyme form in direct competition with substrate molecules. Noncompetitive inhibitors bind to both the free enzyme and to the ES complex or subsequent enzyme forms that are populated during catalysis. Uncompetitive inhibitors bind exclusively to the ES complex or to subsequent enzyme forms. We saw that one can distinguish among these inhibition modes by their effects on the apparent values of the steady state kinetic parameters Umax, Km, and VmdX/KM. We further saw that for bisubstrate reactions, the inhibition modality depends on the reaction mechanism used by the enzyme. Finally, we described how one may use the dissociation constant for inhibition (Kh o.K or both) to best evaluate the relative affinity of different inhibitors for ones target enzyme, and thus drive compound optimization through medicinal chemistry efforts. 

Substrates may affect enzyme kinetics either by activation or by inhibition. Substrate activation may be observed if the enzyme has two (or more) binding sites, and substrate binding at one site enhances the alfinity of the substrate for the other site(s). The result is a highly active ternary complex, consisting of the enzyme and two substrate molecules, which subsequently dissociates to generate the product. Substrate inhibition may occur in a similar way, except that the ternary complex is nonreactive. We consider first, by means of an example, inhibition by a single substrate, and second, inhibition by multiple substrates. 

We point out that in enzyme kinetics TON is understood as TOF It is also sometimes called the turnover number, because it is a reciprocal time and defines the number of catalytic cycles (or turnovers ) that the enzyme can undergo in unit time, or the number of molecules of substrate that one molecule of enzyme can convert into products in one unit of time. Quotation from [23]. 

We think about metabolic pathways as linear or cyclical sequences of reactions as described in Chapter 1. Individual reactions within a pathway are often dependant upon at least one other reaction. For example, we know from our studies of enzyme kinetics in Chapter 2 that the rate of an enzyme catalysed reaction is determined in part by the concentration of substrate. Remember, the substrate for one reaction is usually the product of a previous reaction, so the activity of an enzyme is affected by the activity of the preceding enzyme in the sequence. 

Abstract Neuroscientists may wish to quantify an enzyme activity for one of many reasons. In order to do so, the researcher must be able to set up an assay appropriately, and this requires some understanding of the kinetic behavior of the enzyme toward the substrate used. Furthermore, such an understanding is vital if the inhibitory effects of a drug are to be assessed appropriately. This chapter outlines key principles that must be adhered to, and describes basic approaches by which rather complex kinetic data might be obtained, in order that enzyme kinetics and inhibitor kinetics might be studied successfully by the nonexpert. 

The major part of the reports discussed above provides only a qualitative description of the catalytic response, but the LbL method provides a unique opportunity to quantify this response in terms of enzyme kinetics and electron-hopping diffusion models. For example, Hodak et al. [77[ demonstrated that only a fraction of the enzymes are wired by the polymer. A study comprising films with only one GOx and one PAH-Os layer assembled in different order on cysteamine, MPS and MPS/PAH substrates [184[ has shown a maximum fraction of wired enzymes of 30% for the maximum ratio of mediator-to-enzyme, [Os[/[GOx[ fs 100, while the bimolecular FADH2 oxidation rate constant remained almost the same, about 5-8 x 10 s ... 

A model of such structures has been proposed that captures transport phenomena of both substrates and redox cosubstrate species within a composite biocatalytic electrode.The model is based on macrohomo-geneous and thin-film theories for porous electrodes and accounts for Michaelis—Menton enzyme kinetics and one-dimensional diffusion of multiple species through a porous structure defined as a mesh of tubular fibers. In addition to the solid and aqueous phases, the model also allows for the presence of a gas phase (of uniformly contiguous morphology), as shown in Figure 11, allowing the treatment of high-rate gas-phase reactant transport into the electrode. 

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A procedure to simplify the experimental method in the kinetic analysis of three-substrate, enzyme-catalyzed reactions ". In this method, the concentration of one substrate is varied while the other two substrates are kept in a constant ratio and in which the individual concentrations of these two substrates are in the neighborhood of their respective Michaelis constants. The experi-... 

Such considerations raise the concept of the intrinsic kinetic isotope effect—the effect of isotopic substitution on a specific step in an enzyme-catalyzed reaction. The magnitude of an intrinsic isotope effect may not equal the magnitude of an isotope effect on collective rate parameters such as Vmax or Emax/ m, unless the isotopi-cally sensitive step is the rate-limiting or rate-contributing step. To tackle this problem, Northrop extended the kinetic theory for primary isotope effects in enzyme-catalyzed reactions. His approach can be illustrated with the following example of a one-substrate/two-intermedi-ate enzyme-catalyzed reaction ... 

In this example, one can construct the of samples for determining the kinetic two-substrate enzymic reaction ... 

A model first advanced by Victor HenrT and later by Leonor Michaelis and Maud Menten to account for the kinetic properties of a one-substrate, one-product enzyme-catalyzed reaction. 

Some investigators also unnecessarily apply the further restriction that Michaelis-Menten kinetics refers only to enzymes catalyzing the conversion of a single substrate to a single product. Were this taken to its extreme, only isomerases would qualify, because most one-substrate systems utilize water as a second substrate or product. See Michaelis-Menten Equation Uni Uni Mechanism Enzyme Rate Equations (1. The Basics)... 

A enzyme kinetic technique, introduced by Britton and co-workers "", that permits one to measure the equilibrium distribution of enzyme-bound substrate(s), inter-mediate(s), and product(s). In this procedure, radiolabeled substrate or product is initially permitted to react with enzyme for sufficient time to equilibrate. At thermodynamic equilibrium, all the different enzyme-bound species will be present at concentrations reflecting their stability relative to each other. One can then add a large excess of unlabeled substrate. Under this condition, any unbound or newly released radiolabel will mix with the large unlabeled pool of substrate or product, where it will undergo substantial reduction in its radiospecific activity. This dilution effectively reduces or eliminates any significant recycling of released radiolabel. One can then... 

Many enzymes, which transform two different substrates to one or two product(s), could be characterized using equation (8.1), if the concentration of one substrate is high enough to saturate the enzyme. If the two substrate molecules bind to the enzyme independently from each other, the calculated KM values will reflect the affinity of the substrate to the complex of the other substrate molecule and the enzyme. Further, the Vj ax " ill characterize the rate of the reaction at the excess concentrations of both substrates (the enzyme is saturated by both substrates). However, this could be just a coarse approximation, and there are kinetic analytical methods for a more exact characterization of such two-substrate enzymic reactions, which could run on different ways e.g. random Bi-Bi, ping-pong Bi Bi mechanisms (Keleti, 1986 Fersht, 1985 Segel, 1975 Comish-Bowden, 1995). 

The direction of a reaction can be assessed straightforwardly by comparing the equilibrium constant (Keq) and the ratio of the product solubility to the substrate solubility (Zsat) [39]. In the case of the zwitterionic product amoxicillin, the ratio of the equilibrium constant and the saturated mass action ratio for the formation of the antibiotic was evaluated [40]. It was found that, at every pH, Zsat (the ratio of solubilities, called Rs in that paper) was about one order of magnitude greater in value than the experimental equilibrium constant (Zsat > Keq), and hence product precipitation was not expected and also not observed experimentally in a reaction with suspended substrates. The pH profile of all the compounds involved in the reaction (the activated acyl substrate, the free acid by-product, the antibiotic nucleus, and the product) could be predicted with reasonable accuracy, based only on charge and mass balance equations in combination with enzyme kinetic parameters [40]. 

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