Enzyme catalysis: over-the-barrier or through-the-barrier?
Enzyme catalysis: over-the-barrier or through-the-barrier?
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酶催化:越过屏障还是穿过屏障?
DOI:
10.1016/s0968-0004(00)01642-x
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
13.8
通讯作者:
Nigel S. Scrutton
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Sutcliffe;Nigel S. Scrutton
406 inaccessible if it were treated as a particle (Fig. 1b). In the quantum world, the pathway from reactants to products might not need to pass over the barrier but could pass through the barrier by quantum tunnelling. Quantum tunnelling is more pronounced for light particles (eg electrons), because the wavelength of a particle is inversely proportional to the square root of the mass of the particle. Quantum tunnelling is now firmly established for biological electron transfer14 and can take place over distances as large as 25–30 Å. But what about other particles? The mass of the hydrogen (ie protium) nucleus is 1840 times that of the electron. Protium can therefore tunnel over a distance of 0.58 Å with the same probability as an electron tunnelling over 25 Å. This distance is small, but it is similar in length to a reaction coordinate (ie width of a potential energy barrier). This suggests that tunnelling might be important in enzymatic H-transfer. Isotopes of hydrogen [ie deuterium (D) and tritium (T)] have increased mass and tunnel with the same probability over 0.41 Å and 0.34 Å, respectively, as an electron does over 25 Å (cf 0.58 Å for protium). The decreased probability of D-and T-transfer compared with H-transfer makes isotopic substitution within a substrate molecule an attractive means of detecting H-tunnelling in chemical and biological reactions15. Klinman and co-workers were the first to obtain experimental evidence consistent with H-tunnelling in an enzymecatalysed reaction on the basis of deviations in kinetic isotope effect from that expected for classical behaviour. Since their proposal of H-tunnelling at physiological temperatures in yeast alcohol dehydrogenase16, they have also demonstrated similar effects in bovine serum amine oxidase17, monoamine oxidase18 and glucose oxidase19. Tunnelling in these systems was described in terms of the ‘static’barrier depictions of TST, but, rather than passing over the barrier, H-transfer was envisaged to occur just below the saddlepoint of the potential energy surface by quantum tunnelling. More recently, Klinman has suggested that ‘pure’tunnelling (ie the substrate does not ascend the barrier) of H and D occurs in the reaction catalysed by lipooxygenase, and this too was interpreted using the ‘static’barrier depictions of TST20. In this latter case, the reaction rate was found to be essentially independent of temperature, giving rise to the assumption that the energy barrier is static rather than dynamic. However, as discussed for classical over-the-barrier transfers, protein dynamics, which give rise to a ‘fluctuating’potential energy surface, are envisaged to play a major role in biological catalysis. The possibility of a link between protein dynamics and quantum tunnelling (termed vibrationally assisted tunnelling) therefore needs to be explored.
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Jonsson,T;Edmondson,DE;Klinman,JP
通讯作者:
Klinman,JP
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Northrop,DB;Cho,YK
通讯作者:
Cho,YK
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Kohen, A;Jonsson, T;Klinman, JP
通讯作者:
Klinman, JP