INHIBITION OF PAPAIN BY NITRILES - MECHANISTIC STUDIES USING NMR AND KINETIC MEASUREMENTS
INHIBITION OF PAPAIN BY NITRILES - MECHANISTIC STUDIES USING NMR AND KINETIC MEASUREMENTS
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(87)90068-3
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发表时间:
1987-02-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
ABELES, RH
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作者:
LIANG, TC;ABELES, RH
N-(N-acetyl-1-phenylalanyl)aminoacetronitrile is an inhibitor of papain. With 13C NMR spectroscopy we have shown that a reversible covalent adduct is formed with papain. The reversible nature of the covalent-adduct formation was demonstrated with NMR saturation-transfer technique using a DANTE pulse for selective excitation. In addition the covalent adduct was displaced with an aldehyde inhibitor to regenerate the nitrole compound. No hydrolysis of the nitrile was observed. The covalent adduct is mostly likely a thioimidate formed between the essential thiol and the nitrole. Several p-nitroanilide substrates and their corresponding nitrile inhibitors were examined. A correlation between Ki and kcat/Km was observed. This finding together with the fact that the pH dependence of Ki parallels that kcat/Km suggests that interaction of nitriles and papain has considerable transition-state character. In contrast, a nitrile was shown to be an ineffective inhibitor of .alpha.-chymotrypsin.