Enzymatic hydrolysis of short-chain lecithin/long-chain phospholipid unilamellar vesicles: sensitivity of phospholipases to matrix phase state.
Enzymatic hydrolysis of short-chain lecithin/long-chain phospholipid unilamellar vesicles: sensitivity of phospholipases to matrix phase state.
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短链卵磷脂/长链磷脂单层囊泡的酶水解:磷脂酶对基质相状态的敏感性。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00397a032
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发表时间:
1987
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Roberts,MF
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作者:
Gabriel,NE;Agman,NV;Roberts,MF
Revised Manuscript Received June 30, 1987 abstract: Short-chain lecithin/long-chain phospholipid unilamellar vesicles (SLUVs), unlikepure long-chain lecithin vesicles, are excellent substrates for water-soluble phospholipases. Hemolysis assays show that> 99.5% of the short-chain lecithin is partitioned in the bilayer. In these binary component vesicles, theshort-chain species is the preferred substrate, while the long-chain phospholipid can be treated as an inhibitor (phospholipase C) or poor substrate (phospholipase A2). For phospholipase C Bacillus cereus, apparent Km and Lnax values show that bilayer-solubilized diheptanoylphosphatidylcholine (diheptanoyl-PC) is nearly as good a substrate as pure micellar diheptanoyl-PC, although the extent of short-chain lecithin hydrolysis depends on the phase state of the long-chainlipid. Forphospholipase A2 Naja naja naja, both Km and Kmax values show a greater range: in a gel-state matrix, diheptanoyl-PC is hydrolyzed with micellelike kinetic parameters; in a liquid-crystalline matrix, the short-chain lecithin becomes comparable to the long-chain component. Both enzymes also show an anomalous increase in specific activity toward diheptanoyl-PCaround the phase transition temperature of the long-chain phospholipid. Since the short-chain lecithin does not exhibit a phase transition, this must reflect fluctuations in head-group area or vertical motions of the short-chainlecithin caused by surrounding long-chain lecithin molecules. These results are discussed in terms of a specific model for SLUV hydrolysisand a general explanation for the “interfacial activation” observed with water-soluble phospholipases.^^ íospholipases are small, water-soluble enzymes that cata-lyze the hydrolysis of phospholipid ester linkages. Phospholipase A2 acts specifically on the sn-2 fatty acyl bond (Van Deenen & de Haas, 1964) while phospholipase C is specific for thephosphoglycerate bond of phospholipids (Little, 1981). These enzymes exhibit “interfacial activation” or a preference for substrate in aggregated forms (Pieterson et al., 1974; El-Sayed & Roberts, 1985). Furthermore, the type of phospholipid aggregate (eg, bilayer, vesicle, or micelle) has a dramatic effect on the enzyme specific activity (Dennis, 1983; DeBose & Roberts, 1983). A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the observed kinetic trends. Several of these focus on aggregation-induced changes in the substrate (Brockerhoff, 1968; Wells, 1974, 1978; Apitz-Castro et al., 1979; Upreti & Jain, 1980). Other workers have attributed interfacial activation to phospholipid aggregationinducing conformational changes in theenzyme (Verger & de Haas, 1973; Roberts et al., 1977; Plunckthun & Dennis, 1982). Yet another possibility is that the lipid matrix aggregation state may affect product release (El-Sayed & Roberts, 1985). Part of the problem in testing these different ideas is that different substrate chain lengths as well as physical aggregation states have been used.