Faraggi M, Klapper M H, Dorfman L M
Biophys J. 1978 Oct;24(1):307-17. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(78)85379-X.
The one-electron reduction of chymotrypsin, trypsin, and their zymogens have been studied by pulse radiolysis. The optical spectra of the transient products from the two active enzymes display a pH-dependent band at 360 nm, associated with the histidine-electron adduct. The yield of the histidyl radical as a function of pH is consistent with a pK(a) less than 4.5, which suggests that the radical is located at the enzyme active site. The histidines of the proenzymes chymotrypsinogen and trypsinogen are unreactive towards the hydrated electron. We conclude that formation of the histidine-electron adduct at the serine protease active site is sensitive to the physical alterations which accompany protease activation.
通过脉冲辐解研究了胰凝乳蛋白酶、胰蛋白酶及其酶原的单电子还原。两种活性酶瞬态产物的光谱在360nm处显示出一个pH依赖性谱带,与组氨酸-电子加合物相关。组氨酸自由基的产率作为pH的函数,其pK(a)小于4.5,这表明该自由基位于酶的活性位点。胰凝乳蛋白酶原和胰蛋白酶原的组氨酸对水合电子无反应。我们得出结论,丝氨酸蛋白酶活性位点处组氨酸-电子加合物的形成对蛋白酶激活时伴随的物理变化敏感。