Letter: Micelle catalyzed reactions are models of enzyme catalyzed reactions which show positive homotropic interactions.
Letter: Micelle catalyzed reactions are models of enzyme catalyzed reactions which show positive homotropic interactions.
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00426a083
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发表时间:
1976-05
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15
通讯作者:
D. Piszkiewicz
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作者:
D. Piszkiewicz
In attempting to understand the mechanisms by which en-zymes catalyze reactions, chemists have expended much effort in the study of catalysis in simpler, chemical systems. 1 Catal-ysis of reactions within micelles has been studied extensively from this point of view2· 3 since both micelles and enzymes bind substrates in a noncovalent manner. The purpose of this report is to demonstrate an additional similarity of micelle catalysis and enzymatic catalysis: the kinetics of micelle catalyzed re-actions are similar to those of many regulatory enzymes in that they show positive homotropic interactions. 4 A simple kinetic description of enzymatic homotropic interactions may be ap-plied to analysis of the kinetics of a vast number of micelle catalyzed reactions.The rate constants for micelle catalyzed reactions when plotted vs. detergent concentration yield approximately sigmoid-shaped curves; downward sloping sigmoid curves have also been observed for cases in which micelles inhibit reaction. The similarities in shape of these curves to thesigmoid-shaped dependencies of velocity on substrate concentration produced by many regulatory enzymes are striking. The kinetic model commonly used to quantitatively describe the relationship of rate constant to detergent concentration assumes that micelle, D „, forms a noncovalent complex with substrate, S, before catalysis may take place. 3