Lewis S D, Johnson F A, Ohno A K, Shafer J A
J Biol Chem. 1978 Jul 25;253(14):5080-6.
The pH dependence of kcat/Km for the papain-catalyzed hydrolysis of ethyl hippurate, N-alpha-benzoyl-L-citrulline methyl ester, and the p-nitroanilide, amide, and ethyl ester derivatives of N-alpha-benzoyl-L-arginine was determined below pH 6.4. The value of kcat/Km was observed to be modulated by two acid ionizations rather than a single ionization as previously believed. For the five substrates studied, the average pK values for the two ionizations are 3.78 +/- 0.2 and 3.95 +/- 0.1 at T/2 0.3, 25 degrees C. The observation that similar pK values were obtained with different substrates was taken as evidence that the kinetically determined pK values are close in value to true macroscopic ionization constants for ionization of groups on the free enzyme.
在pH 6.4以下测定了木瓜蛋白酶催化马尿酸乙酯、N-α-苯甲酰-L-瓜氨酸甲酯以及N-α-苯甲酰-L-精氨酸的对硝基苯胺、酰胺和乙酯衍生物水解反应的kcat/Km与pH的关系。结果发现,kcat/Km的值受两个酸电离的调节,而非如之前所认为的受单个电离调节。对于所研究的五种底物,在T/2为0.3、25℃时,这两个电离的平均pK值分别为3.78±0.2和3.95±0.1。不同底物获得相似pK值这一观察结果被视为动力学测定的pK值在数值上接近游离酶上基团电离的真实宏观电离常数的证据。