Microwave-assisted enzyme-catalyzed reactions in various solvent systems

The work describes the accelerated enzymatic digestion of several proteins in various solvent systems under microwave irradiation. The tryptic fragments of the proteins were analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. Under the influence of rapid microwave heating, these enzymatic reactions can proceed in a solvent such as chloroform, which, under traditional digestion conditions, renders the enzyme inactive. The digestion efficiencies and sequence coverages were increased when the trypsin digestions occurred in acetonitrile-, methanol- and chloroform-containing solutions that were heated under microwave irradiation for 10 min using a commercial microwave applicator. The percentage of the protein digested under microwave irradiation increased with the relative acetonitrile content, but decreased as the methanol content was increased. These observations suggest that acetonitrile does not deactivate the enzyme during the irradiation period; in contrast, methanol does deactivate it. In all cases, the digestion efficiencies under microwave irradiation exceed those under conventional conditions.     

Thermodynamics of industrially-important,enzyme-catalyzed reactions

The thermodynamics of 10 industrially-important, enzyme-catalyzed reactions are examined. The reactions discussed are: the conversions of penicillin G to 6-amino-penicillinic acid using the enzyme penicillin acylase; starch to glucose using amylases; glucose to fructose using glucose (xylose) isomerase; cellulose to glucose using cellulase; fumaric acid and ammonia to L-aspartic acid using L-aspartase; transcinnamic acid and ammonia to L-phenylalanine using L-phenylalanine ammonia lyase; L-histidine to urocanic acid and ammonia using L-histidine ammonia lyase; lactose to glucose and galactose using lactase; and the reactions catalyzed by amino acylases and proteases. The selection of these processes was based on the economic value of the products and their intrinsic industrial importance. The available thermodynamic properties, such as equilibrium constants, Gibbs energies (delta G degrees), enthalphies (delta H degrees), and heat capacity changes (delta Cp degrees) of these enzyme-catalyzed reactions, are reviewed and summarized. Recommendations are made for future research in this area.     

Thermodynamic properties of weak acids involved in enzyme-catalyzed reactions

Measurements of apparent equilibrium constants and transformed enthalpies of enzyme-catalyzed reactions are making it possible to obtain delta(f)G degrees and delta(f)H degrees of species of biochemical reactants in dilute aqueous solution that could never have been determined classically. This article is concerned with the pKs that determine the pH dependencies of the standard transformed thermodynamic properties of biochemical reactants. The database BasicBiochemData3 makes it possible to calculate 82 pKs of 60 reactants as functions of ionic strength at 298.15 K. Standard enthalpies of formation of all the species are known for 27 of these reactants, and so their pKs can be calculated as functions of temperature and ionic strength. This article also presents calculations of delta(r)G degrees, delta(r)H degrees, and delta(r)S degrees at 298.15 K and three ionic strengths for the 42 pKs of these 27 reactants.     

A conductometric device for monitoring of enzyme-catalyzed reactions

A new conductometric device is described for measurement of conductance changes during enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The use of platinum resistances inside the cell allows temperature regulation to be obtained without circulating water. Solutions are introduced and removed from the cell with a peristaltic pump. The device is evaluated by assaying serum urea concentrations down to 40 nM. The results correlate well with a spectrophotometric method based on biacetylmonoxime (r=0.997).     

Calculation of equilibrium compositions of systems of enzyme-catalyzed reactions

When a system of enzyme-catalyzed reactions does not involve H(2)O as a reactant, the equilibrium composition at specified temperature, pH, and ionic strength can be calculated using the Mathematica programs equcalcc, which uses the conservation matrix, or equcalcrx, which uses the stoichiometric number matrix. When H(2)O is involved as a reactant, equcalcrx must be used because H(2)O is not in the stoichiometric number matrix. It is shown here that the use of equcalcrx is equivalent to using the further transformed Gibbs energy G" that eliminates oxygen from the conservation matrix. Calculations presented here show that the calculation of further transformed Gibbs energies of formation of reactants other than coenzymes can be avoided by using equcalcrx to calculate equilibrium concentrations.     

Beta-D-xylosidase from Selenomonas ruminantium: thermodynamics of enzyme-catalyzed and noncatalyzed reactions

Beta-D-Xylosidase/alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase from Selenomonas ruminantium is the most active enzyme known for catalyzing hydrolysis of 1,4-beta-D: -xylooligosaccharides to D-xylose. Temperature dependence for hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl-beta-D-xylopyranoside (4NPX), 4-nitrophenyl-alpha-L-arabinofuranoside (4NPA), and 1,4-beta-D-xylobiose (X2) was determined on and off (k (non)) the enzyme at pH 5.3, which lies in the pH-independent region for k (cat) and k (non). Rate enhancements (k (cat)/k (non)) for 4NPX, 4NPA, and X2 are 4.3 x 10(11), 2.4 x 10(9), and 3.7 x 10(12), respectively, at 25 degrees C and increase with decreasing temperature. Relative parameters k (cat) (4NPX)/k (cat) (4NPA), k (cat) (4NPX)/k (cat) (X2), and (k (cat)/K (m))(4NPX)/(k (cat)/K (m))(X2) increase and (k (cat)/K (m))(4NPX)/(k (cat)/K (m))(4NPA), (1/K (m))(4NPX)/(1/K (m))(4NPA), and (1/K (m))(4NPX)/(1/K (m))(X2) decrease with increasing temperature.     

微量热法研究单底物酶促反应的热力学和动力学性质及过渡态的分析

用LKB-2107型微量热系统, 测定了漆酶催化氧化3, 4-二羟基苯甲醛、邻甲氧基酚、邻苯三酚、3, 4, 5-三羟基苯甲酸反应的热谱图, 利用热谱图计算了米氏常数(Km)、反应速率常数(k2)和热力学参数(ΔrHm, ΔG0, ΔT^≠, Ea, ΔST^≠)。并应用过渡态理论对其催化过程进行了分析。结果表明: 稳定过渡态结构有利于酶促反应, 酶-底物在反应物时相互作用仅仅是降低酶的催化效率。提出两种可能提高酶催化效率的方法。由活化熵(ΔST)<0得出酶-底物在过渡态的结构较酶-底物复合物的结构更为有序。     

Analysis of the dynamical behavior for enzyme-catalyzed reactions with impulsive input

Previous work has concentrated on the nature and validity of this reactions. In the paper, the dynamical behavior of Michaelis–Menten type kinetics for enzyme-catalyzed biochemical reactions is studied. Under the practical background, we investigate the effects of impulsive substrate-input.      

Changes in the standard transformed thermodynamic properties of enzyme-catalyzed reactions with ionic strength

The ionic strength has significant effects on the thermodynamic properties of ionic species and on the transformed thermodynamic properties of biochemical reactants at specified pH values. These effects are discussed for species, reactants, and enzyme-catalyzed reactions. This has led to three new thermodynamic properties: (z(j)(2) - NH(j)), (z(2) - N(H))(i), and Delta(r)(z((2)-N(H)), which are referred to as ionic strength coefficients. The first of these is a property of a species, the second is a property of a reactant, and the third is the property of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction. The effects of ionic strength on standard thermodynamic properties of species, standard transformed thermodynamic properties of reactants, and standard transformed thermodynamic properties of enzyme-catalyzed reactions are proportional to these new thermodynamic properties.     

微量热法研究单底物酶促反应的产物抑制作用

本文建立了有产物抑制的单底物酶促反应动力学的对比进度方程和热力学的数学模型。根据此模型, 可由反应的热谱曲线方便地解析出动力学参数(K~m, K~i和V~m)和摩尔反应焓(△~rH~m), 并同时确定产物的抑制类型。用微量热法研究了精氨酸酶催化水解L-精氨酸的热动力学, 确定水解产物L-鸟氨酸属于竞争性可逆抑制剂, 298.15K和pH 9.4时L-鸟氨酸与精氨酸酶作用的抑制常数K~i=1.22×10^-^3mol·L^-^1。实验结果验证了本文有产物抑制的单底物酶促反应热动力学研究法的正确性。     

Application of different polarimetric methods for the analysis of enzyme-catalyzed enantioselective reactions

Identification of model parameters in kinetic equations requires the determination of reactant concentrations in the course of time. In the case of enzyme catalyzed enantioselective reactions, three different polarimetric methods were used for concentration measurements obtained in both initial rate experiments and under dynamically changing conditions. Two on-line methods for the determination of different numbers of chiral species and a more universal off-line method were applied. For the investigated substrate 5-benzylhydantoin and the enzyme hydantoinase it is shown, that the obtained polarimetric data are most suitable for identification of kinetic parameters. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that on-line data of only one conversion allow for an assessment of an enzyme with regard to its enantioselectivity.     

Improved method for direct high-performance liquid chromatography assay of angiotensin-converting enzyme-catalyzed reactions

A rapid and sensitive assay was developed for determination of the activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in the presence of inhibitory peptides present in soybean protein hydrolysates. The method utilizes reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to separate and quantify hippuryl-histidyl-leucine (HHL) and hippuric acid (HA). HHL and HA were separated on a Symmetry C₁₈ column by gradient elution that used mixtures of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)–acetonitrile and TFA–water as solvents. Analytical time and baseline separation of HA from HHL were improved over previous HPLC methods. In comparison to the standard spectrophotometric method, the new HPLC method obviates the need for ethyl acetate extraction of HA but requires direct injection of the ACE reaction mixture onto the HPLC column.     

Polar effects in nitride coupling reactions

The nucleophilic molybdenum nitride (Et(2)NCS(2))(3)MoN (1) reacts with the electrophilic osmium nitride complex TpOsNCl(2) (2, Tp = hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)borate) to produce molecular nitrogen. Reaction of 1 at the nitride is accompanied by a substantial amount of reaction at a sulfur atom of the dithiocarbamate ligand, forming the osmium thionitrosyl complex TpOs(NS)Cl(2) (4). Labeling experiments establish that the N(2) produced comes specifically (>96%) from mixed-metal (molybdenum-osmium) coupling. The major transition-metal-containing product of the reaction is the mu-nitrido complex TpOsCl(2)(mu-N)Mo(S(2)CNEt(2))(3) (3), where the bridging nitride derives primarily (82%) from the osmium nitride 2. The mu-nitrido complex 3 has been characterized crystallographically, and shows a nitride bridge that is very asymmetric (Mo-N = 1.721(3) A, Os-N = 1.906(3) A), with less multiple bonding toward osmium and more toward molybdenum. Heterometallic coupling is much faster than either homometallic coupling reaction, in particular the osmium-osmium coupling, despite the greater oxidizing power of osmium over molybdenum. The origin and implications of this kinetic effect on nitride coupling and dinitrogen cleavage are discussed.     

Application of different polarimetric methods for the analysis of enzyme-catalyzed enantioselective reactions

Identification of model parameters in kinetic equations requires the determination of reactant concentrations in the course of time. In the case of enzyme catalyzed enantioselective reactions, three different polarimetric methods were used for concentration measurements obtained in both initial rate experiments and under dynamically changing conditions. Two on-line methods for the determination of different numbers of chiral species and a more universal off-line method were applied. For the investigated substrate 5-benzylhydantoin and the enzyme hydantoinase it is shown, that the obtained polarimetric data are most suitable for identification of kinetic parameters. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that on-line data of only one conversion allow for an assessment of an enzyme with regard to its enantioselectivity. Received: 20 October 1998 / Revised: 28 December 1998 / Accepted: 4 January 1999     

Copper-catalyzed alkyne-aryne and alkyne-alkene-aryne coupling reactions

The efficient copper-catalyzed two-component coupling reaction of alkynes with arynes and the three-component coupling reaction of alkynes with allylic chlorides and arynes have been developed. Copper acetylide was postulated as a transient intermediate for the initiation of the coupling reactions.