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Roth A, Gihring A, Göser F, Peifer C, Knippschild U, Bischof J. Assessing the Inhibitory Potential of Kinase Inhibitors In Vitro: Major Pitfalls and Suggestions for Improving Comparability of Data Using CK1 Inhibitors as an Example. Molecules 2021; 26:4898. [PMID: 34443486 PMCID: PMC8401859 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26164898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Phosphorylation events catalyzed by protein kinases represent one of the most prevalent as well as important regulatory posttranslational modifications, and dysregulation of protein kinases is associated with the pathogenesis of different diseases. Therefore, interest in developing potent small molecule kinase inhibitors has increased enormously within the last two decades. A critical step in the development of new inhibitors is cell-free in vitro testing with the intention to determine comparable parameters like the commonly used IC50 value. However, values described in the literature are often biased as experimental setups used for determination of kinase activity lack comparability due to different readout parameters, insufficient normalization or the sheer number of experimental approaches. Here, we would like to hold a brief for highly sensitive, radioactive-based in vitro kinase assays especially suitable for kinases exhibiting autophosphorylation activity. Therefore, we demonstrate a systematic workflow for complementing and validating results from high-throughput screening as well as increasing the comparability of enzyme-specific inhibitor parameters for radiometric as well as non-radiometric assays. Using members of the CK1 family of serine/threonine-specific protein kinases and established CK1-specific inhibitors as examples, we clearly demonstrate the power of our proposed workflow, which has the potential to support the generation of more comparable data for biological characterization of kinase inhibitors.
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- Aileen Roth
- Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Surgery Center, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany; (A.R.); (A.G.); (F.G.); (J.B.)
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- Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Surgery Center, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany; (A.R.); (A.G.); (F.G.); (J.B.)
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- Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Surgery Center, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany; (A.R.); (A.G.); (F.G.); (J.B.)
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Gutenbergstraße 76, 24118 Kiel, Germany;
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- Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Surgery Center, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany; (A.R.); (A.G.); (F.G.); (J.B.)
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- Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Surgery Center, Ulm University Medical Center, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany; (A.R.); (A.G.); (F.G.); (J.B.)
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Yun KI, Han TS. Relationship between enzyme concentration and Michaelis constant in enzyme assays. Biochimie 2020; 176:12-20. [PMID: 32585228 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2020.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Revised: 06/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The upper bound of enzyme concentration for accurately estimating the parameters in Michaelis-Menten (MM) equation is not completely determined and still under discussion, even though many researchers have investigated the equation's validity for a long time. In the paper, we broadly investigated the correlation between the system of ordinary differential equations for monosubstrate irreversible enzyme reaction (HMM-system) and its derivative MM equation focusing on the relationship between initial enzyme concentration [E]0 and Michaelis constant Km by numerical simulation. According to the results, the initial reaction velocity v0 is still a function of initial substrate concentration [S]0 at [E]0<Km. The function is identical to the MM equation at [E]0≦0.01Km, while it is described as a new type of equation at 0.01Km≦[E]0<Km. This function is of great significance in enzyme assays as a comprehensive approximation for the HMM-system.
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- Kyong-Il Yun
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Life Science, KIM IL SUNG University, Taesong District, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Life Science, KIM IL SUNG University, Taesong District, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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Alpha-terpinyl acetate: A natural monoterpenoid from Elettaria cardamomum as multi-target directed ligand in Alzheimer’s disease. J Funct Foods 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2020.103892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Dietz MS, Wehrheim SS, Harwardt MLIE, Niemann HH, Heilemann M. Competitive Binding Study Revealing the Influence of Fluorophore Labels on Biomolecular Interactions. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:8245-8249. [PMID: 31621335 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Fluorescence methods are important tools in modern biology. Direct labeling of biomolecules with a fluorophore might, however, change interaction surfaces. Here, we introduce a competitive binding assay in combination with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy that reports binding affinities of both labeled and unlabeled biomolecules to their binding target. We investigated how fluorophore labels at different positions of a DNA oligonucleotide affect hybridization to a complementary oligonucleotide and found dissociation constants varying within 2 orders of magnitude. We next demonstrated that placing a fluorophore label at position Leu280 in the protein ligand internalin B does not alter the binding affinity to the MET receptor tyrosine kinase, compared to unlabeled internalin B. Our approach is simple to implement and can be applied to investigate the influence of fluorophore labels in a large variety of biomolecular interactions.
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- Marina S Dietz
- Single-Molecule Biophysics, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry , Goethe-University Frankfurt , Max-von-Laue-Straße 7 , 60438 Frankfurt/Main , Germany
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- Single-Molecule Biophysics, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry , Goethe-University Frankfurt , Max-von-Laue-Straße 7 , 60438 Frankfurt/Main , Germany
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- Single-Molecule Biophysics, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry , Goethe-University Frankfurt , Max-von-Laue-Straße 7 , 60438 Frankfurt/Main , Germany
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- Structural Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry , Bielefeld University , Universitätsstraße 25 , 33615 Bielefeld , Germany
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- Single-Molecule Biophysics, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry , Goethe-University Frankfurt , Max-von-Laue-Straße 7 , 60438 Frankfurt/Main , Germany
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Xu Y, Gao Y, Su Y, Sun L, Xing F, Fan C, Li D. Single-Molecule Studies of Allosteric Inhibition of Individual Enzyme on a DNA Origami Reactor. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:6786-6794. [PMID: 30412409 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Unraveling the conformational changes of enzymes together with inhibition kinetics during an enzymatic reaction has great potential in screening therapeutic candidates; however, it remains challenging due to the transient nature of each intermediate step. We report our study on the noncompetitive inhibition of horseradish peroxidase with single-turnover resolution using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. By introducing DNA origami as an addressable nanoreactor, we observe the coexistence of nascent-formed fluorescent product on both catalytic and docking sites. We further propose a single-molecule kinetic model to reveal the interplay between product generation and noncompetitive inhibition and find three distinct inhibitor releasing pathways. Moreover, the kinetic isotope effect experiment indicates a strong correlation between catalytic and docking sites, suggesting an allosteric conformational change in noncompetitive inhibition. A memory effect is also observed. This work provides an in-depth understanding of the correlation between enzyme behavior and enzymatic conformational fluctuation, substrate conversion, and product releasing pathway and kinetics.
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- Yan Xu
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China Normal University , Shanghai 200241 , China
- Division of Physical Biology & Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology , Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 201800 , China
- National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology , Shanghai 200241 , China
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- Division of Physical Biology & Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology , Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 201800 , China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China Normal University , Shanghai 200241 , China
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Shanghai University , Shanghai 200444 , China
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- Division of Physical Biology & Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology , Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 201800 , China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Shanghai University , Shanghai 200444 , China
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- Division of Physical Biology & Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology , Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 201800 , China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China Normal University , Shanghai 200241 , China
- Division of Physical Biology & Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology , Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 201800 , China
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Nesbitt NM, Zheng X, Li Z, Manso JA, Yen WY, Malone LE, Ripoll-Rozada J, Pereira PJB, Mantle TJ, Wang J, Bahou WF. In silico and crystallographic studies identify key structural features of biliverdin IXβ reductase inhibitors having nanomolar potency. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:5431-5446. [PMID: 29487133 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.001803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 02/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Heme cytotoxicity is minimized by a two-step catabolic reaction that generates biliverdin (BV) and bilirubin (BR) tetrapyrroles. The second step is regulated by two non-redundant biliverdin reductases (IXα (BLVRA) and IXβ (BLVRB)), which retain isomeric specificity and NAD(P)H-dependent redox coupling linked to BR's antioxidant function. Defective BLVRB enzymatic activity with antioxidant mishandling has been implicated in metabolic consequences of hematopoietic lineage fate and enhanced platelet counts in humans. We now outline an integrated platform of in silico and crystallographic studies for the identification of an initial class of compounds inhibiting BLVRB with potencies in the nanomolar range. We found that the most potent BLVRB inhibitors contain a tricyclic hydrocarbon core structure similar to the isoalloxazine ring of flavin mononucleotide and that both xanthene- and acridine-based compounds inhibit BLVRB's flavin and dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP) reductase functions. Crystallographic studies of ternary complexes with BLVRB-NADP+-xanthene-based compounds confirmed inhibitor binding adjacent to the cofactor nicotinamide and interactions with the Ser-111 side chain. This residue previously has been identified as critical for maintaining the enzymatic active site and cellular reductase functions in hematopoietic cells. Both acridine- and xanthene-based compounds caused selective and concentration-dependent loss of redox coupling in BLVRB-overexpressing promyelocytic HL-60 cells. These results provide promising chemical scaffolds for the development of enhanced BLVRB inhibitors and identify chemical probes to better dissect the role of biliverdins, alternative substrates, and BLVRB function in physiologically relevant cellular contexts.
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- the State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChangChun, Jilin 130022, China
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- the IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.,the i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal, and
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- the IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.,the i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal, and
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- the IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.,the i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal, and
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- the Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Chemistry and Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8151,
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Structural insights into the mechanism of inhibition of AHAS by herbicides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E1945-E1954. [PMID: 29440497 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1714392115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS), the first enzyme in the branched amino acid biosynthesis pathway, is present only in plants and microorganisms, and it is the target of >50 commercial herbicides. Penoxsulam (PS), which is a highly effective broad-spectrum AHAS-inhibiting herbicide, is used extensively to control weed growth in rice crops. However, the molecular basis for its inhibition of AHAS is poorly understood. This is despite the availability of structural data for all other classes of AHAS-inhibiting herbicides. Here, crystallographic data for Saccharomyces cerevisiae AHAS (2.3 Å) and Arabidopsis thaliana AHAS (2.5 Å) in complex with PS reveal the extraordinary molecular mechanisms that underpin its inhibitory activity. The structures show that inhibition of AHAS by PS triggers expulsion of two molecules of oxygen bound in the active site, releasing them as substrates for an oxygenase side reaction of the enzyme. The structures also show that PS either stabilizes the thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-peracetate adduct, a product of this oxygenase reaction, or traps within the active site an intact molecule of peracetate in the presence of a degraded form of ThDP: thiamine aminoethenethiol diphosphate. Kinetic analysis shows that PS inhibits AHAS by a combination of events involving FAD oxidation and chemical alteration of ThDP. With the emergence of increasing levels of resistance toward front-line herbicides and the need to optimize the use of arable land, these data suggest strategies for next generation herbicide design.
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Holdgate GA, Meek TD, Grimley RL. Mechanistic enzymology in drug discovery: a fresh perspective. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2017; 17:115-132. [PMID: 29192286 DOI: 10.1038/nrd.2017.219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Given the therapeutic and commercial success of small-molecule enzyme inhibitors, as exemplified by kinase inhibitors in oncology, a major focus of current drug-discovery and development efforts is on enzyme targets. Understanding the course of an enzyme-catalysed reaction can help to conceptualize different types of inhibitor and to inform the design of screens to identify desired mechanisms. Exploiting this information allows the thorough evaluation of diverse compounds, providing the knowledge required to efficiently optimize leads towards differentiated candidate drugs. This review highlights the rationale for conducting high-quality mechanistic enzymology studies and considers the added value in combining such studies with orthogonal biophysical methods.
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- Geoffrey A Holdgate
- Discovery Sciences, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Building 310, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WG, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Discovery Sciences, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Building 310, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WG, UK
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Capocchi A, Muccilli V, Cunsolo V, Saletti R, Foti S, Fontanini D. A heterotetrameric alpha-amylase inhibitor from emmer (Triticum dicoccon Schrank) seeds. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2013; 88:6-14. [PMID: 23320956 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2012] [Revised: 12/04/2012] [Accepted: 12/17/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Plants have developed a constitutive defense system against pest attacks, which involves the expression of a set of inhibitors acting on heterologous amylases of different origins. Investigating the soluble protein complement of the hulled wheat emmer we have isolated and characterized a heterotetrameric α-amylase inhibitor (ETI). Based on mass spectrometry data, it is an assembly of proteins highly similar to the CM2/CM3/CM16 found in durum wheat. Our data indicate that these proteins can also inhibit exogenous α-amylases in binary assemblies. The calculated dissociation constants (K(i)) for the pancreatic porcine amylase- and human salivary amylase-ETI complexes are similar to those found in durum and soft wheat. Homology modeling of the CM subunits indicate structural similarities with other proteins belonging to the cereal family of trypsin/α-amylase inhibitors; a possible homology modeled structure for a tetrameric assembly of the subunits is proposed.
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- A Capocchi
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via L. Ghini 5, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Recht MI, Sridhar V, Badger J, Hernandez L, Chie-Leon B, Nienaber V, Torres FE. Fragment-based screening for inhibitors of PDE4A using enthalpy arrays and X-ray crystallography. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 17:469-80. [PMID: 22223051 DOI: 10.1177/1087057111430987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Fragment-based screening has typically relied on X-ray or nuclear magnetic resonance methods to identify low-affinity ligands that bind to therapeutic targets. These techniques are expensive in terms of material and time, so it useful to have a higher throughput method to reliably prescreen a fragment library to identify a subset of compounds for structural analysis. Calorimetry provides a label-free method to assay binding and enzymatic activity that is unaffected by the spectroscopic properties of the sample. Conventional microcalorimetry is hampered by requiring large quantities of reagents and long measurement times. Nanocalorimeters can overcome these limitations of conventional isothermal titration calorimetry. Here we have used enthalpy arrays, which are arrays of nanocalorimeters, to perform an enzyme activity-based fragment screen for competitive inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 4A (PDE4A). Several inhibitors with K ( I ) <2 mM were identified and moved to X-ray crystallization trials. Although the co-crystals did not yield high-resolution data, evidence of binding was observed, and the chemical structures of the hits were consistent with motifs of known PDE4 inhibitors. This study shows how array calorimetry can be used as a prescreening method for fragment-based lead discovery with enzyme targets and provides a list of candidate fragments for inhibition of PDE4A.
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Syeda F, Fagan RL, Wean M, Avvakumov GV, Walker JR, Xue S, Dhe-Paganon S, Brenner C. The replication focus targeting sequence (RFTS) domain is a DNA-competitive inhibitor of Dnmt1. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:15344-51. [PMID: 21389349 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.209882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Dnmt1 (DNA methyltransferase 1) is the principal enzyme responsible for maintenance of cytosine methylation at CpG dinucleotides in the mammalian genome. The N-terminal replication focus targeting sequence (RFTS) domain of Dnmt1 has been implicated in subcellular localization, protein association, and catalytic function. However, progress in understanding its function has been limited by the lack of assays for and a structure of this domain. Here, we show that the naked DNA- and polynucleosome-binding activities of Dnmt1 are inhibited by the RFTS domain, which functions by virtue of binding the catalytic domain to the exclusion of DNA. Kinetic analysis with a fluorogenic DNA substrate established the RFTS domain as a 600-fold inhibitor of Dnmt1 enzymatic activity. The crystal structure of the RFTS domain reveals a novel fold and supports a mechanism in which an RFTS-targeted Dnmt1-binding protein, such as Uhrf1, may activate Dnmt1 for DNA binding.
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- Farisa Syeda
- Structural Genomics Consortium and Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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Myers DK. Competition of the Aliesterase in Rat Serum with the Pseudo Cholinesterase for Diisopropyl Fluorophosphonate. Science 2010; 115:568-70. [PMID: 17759179 DOI: 10.1126/science.115.2995.568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Kaysser L, Eitel K, Tanino T, Siebenberg S, Matsuda A, Ichikawa S, Gust B. A new arylsulfate sulfotransferase involved in liponucleoside antibiotic biosynthesis in streptomycetes. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:12684-94. [PMID: 20157116 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.094490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Sulfotransferases are involved in a variety of physiological processes and typically use 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) as the sulfate donor substrate. In contrast, microbial arylsulfate sulfotransferases (ASSTs) are PAPS-independent and utilize arylsulfates as sulfate donors. Yet, their genuine acceptor substrates are unknown. In this study we demonstrate that Cpz4 from Streptomyces sp. MK730-62F2 is an ASST-type sulfotransferase responsible for the formation of sulfated liponucleoside antibiotics. Gene deletion mutants showed that cpz4 is required for the production of sulfated caprazamycin derivatives. Cloning, overproduction, and purification of Cpz4 resulted in a 58-kDa soluble protein. The enzyme catalyzed the transfer of a sulfate group from p-nitrophenol sulfate (K(m) 48.1 microM, k(cat) 0.14 s(-1)) and methyl umbelliferone sulfate (K(m) 34.5 microM, k(cat) 0.15 s(-1)) onto phenol (K(m) 25.9 and 29.7 mM, respectively). The Cpz4 reaction proceeds by a ping pong bi-bi mechanism. Several structural analogs of intermediates of the caprazamycin biosynthetic pathway were synthesized and tested as substrates of Cpz4. Des-N-methyl-acyl-caprazol was converted with highest efficiency 100 times faster than phenol. The fatty acyl side chain and the uridyl moiety seem to be important for substrate recognition by Cpz4. Liponucleosides, partially purified from various mutant strains, were readily sulfated by Cpz4 using p-nitrophenol sulfate. No product formation could be observed with PAPS as the donor substrate. Sequence homology of Cpz4 to the previously examined ASSTs is low. However, numerous orthologs are encoded in microbial genomes and represent interesting subjects for future investigations.
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- Leonard Kaysser
- Pharmazeutische Biologie, Pharmazeutisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Peptide microarrays for detailed, high-throughput substrate identification, kinetic characterization, and inhibition studies on protein kinase A. Anal Biochem 2009; 387:150-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2009.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2008] [Revised: 01/09/2009] [Accepted: 01/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Small-molecule mediated neuroprotection in an in situ model of tauopathy. Neurotox Res 2009; 15:274-83. [PMID: 19384600 DOI: 10.1007/s12640-009-9028-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2008] [Revised: 05/06/2008] [Accepted: 05/06/2008] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Small-molecule inhibitors of neurofibrillary lesion formation may have utility for treatment of Alzheimer's disease and certain forms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. These lesions are composed largely of tau protein, which aggregates to form intracellular fibrils in affected neurons. Previously it was shown that chronic overexpression of human tau protein within identified neurons (anterior bulbar cells) of the sea lamprey induced a phenotype-resembling tauopathic neurodegeneration, including the formation of tau filaments, fragmentation of dendritic arbors, and eventual cell death. Development of this neurodegenerative phenotype was blocked by chronic administration of a benzothiazole derivative termed N3 ((E)-2-[[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]azo]-6-methoxybenzothiazole) to lamprey aquaria. Here we examined the mechanism of action of N3 and an alkene analog termed N4 ((E)-2-[2-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]ethenyl]-6-methoxybenzothiazole) in vitro and in the lamprey model. Results showed that although both compounds entered the lamprey central nervous system, only N3 arrested tauopathy. On the basis of in vitro aggregation assays, neither compound was capable of directly inhibiting tau filament formation. However, N3, but not N4, was capable of partially antagonizing the binding of Thioflavin S to synthetic tau filaments. The results suggest that occupancy of N3-binding sites on nascent tau filaments may significantly retard the progressive degeneration accompanying tau overexpression in lamprey.
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Wills JH, Dubois KP. The Measurement and Significance Of Changes In The Cholinesterase Activities Of Erythrocytes and Plasma In Man and Animals. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.3109/10408447209104304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Khan M, Goswami U, Rojatkar S, Khan M. A serine protease inhibitor from hemolymph of green mussel, Perna viridis. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2008; 18:3963-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2008] [Revised: 06/02/2008] [Accepted: 06/05/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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BURGEN ASV. The mechanism of action of anticholinesterase drugs. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND CHEMOTHERAPY 2007; 4:219-28. [PMID: 18141083 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1949.tb00540.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Congdon EE, Necula M, Blackstone RD, Kuret J. Potency of a tau fibrillization inhibitor is influenced by its aggregation state. Arch Biochem Biophys 2007; 465:127-35. [PMID: 17559794 PMCID: PMC2048980 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2007.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2007] [Revised: 05/07/2007] [Accepted: 05/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Tau fibrillization is a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Several small-molecule inhibitors of tau aggregation have been developed for this purpose. One of them, 3,3'-bis(beta-hydroxyethyl)-9-ethyl-5,5'-dimethoxythiacarbocyanine iodide (N744), is a cationic thiacarbocyanine dye that inhibits recombinant tau filament formation when present at submicromolar concentrations. To prepare dosing regimens for testing N744 activity in biological models, its full concentration-effect relationship in the range 0.01-60muM was examined in vitro by electron microscopy and laser light scattering methods. Results revealed that N744 concentration dependence was biphasic, with fibrillization inhibitory activity appearing at submicromolar concentration, but with relief of inhibition and increases in fibrillization apparent above 10muM. Therefore, fibrillization was inhibited 50% only over a narrow concentration range, which was further reduced by filament stabilizing modifications such as tau pseudophosphorylation. N744 inhibitory activity also was paralleled by changes in its aggregation state, with dimer predominating at inhibitory concentrations and large dye aggregates appearing at high concentrations. Ligand dimerization was promoted by the presence of tau protein, which lowered the equilibrium dissociation constant for dimerization more than an order of magnitude relative to controls. The results suggest that ligand aggregation may play an important role in both inhibitory and disinhibitory phases of the concentration-effect curve, and may lead to complex dose-response relationships in model systems.
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- Erin E. Congdon
- Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Center for Molecular Neurobiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Center for Molecular Neurobiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
- *Corresponding Author: Jeff Kuret, Ph.D., Center for Molecular Neurobiology 1060 Carmack Rd. Columbus, OH 43210, TEL: (614) 688-5899, FAX: (614) 292-5379,
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Rami Tzafriri A, Edelman ER. Quasi-steady-state kinetics at enzyme and substrate concentrations in excess of the Michaelis-Menten constant. J Theor Biol 2006; 245:737-48. [PMID: 17234216 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2006] [Revised: 11/27/2006] [Accepted: 12/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In vitro enzyme reactions are traditionally conducted under conditions of pronounced substrate excess since this guarantees that the bound enzyme is at quasi-steady-state (QSS) with respect to the free substrate, thereby justifying the Briggs-Haldane approximation (BHA). In contrast, intracellular reactions, amplification assays, allergen digestion assays and industrial applications span a range of enzyme-to-substrate ratios for which the BHA is invalid, including the extreme of enzyme excess. The quasi-equilibrium approximation (QEA) is valid for a subset of enzyme excess states. Previously, we showed that the total QSSA (tQSSA) overlaps and extends the validity of the BHA and the QEA, and that it is at least roughly valid for any total substrate and enzyme concentrations. The analysis of the tQSSA is hampered by square root nonlinearity. Previous simplifications of the tQSSA rate law are valid in a parameter domain that overlaps the validity domains of the BHA and the QEA and only slightly extends them. We now integrate the tQSSA rate equation in closed form, without resorting to further approximations. Moreover, we introduce a complimentary simplification of the tQSSA rate law that is valid in states of enzyme excess when the absolute difference between total enzyme and substrate concentrations greatly exceeds the Michaelis-Menten constant. This includes a wide range of enzyme and substrate concentrations where both the BHA and the QEA are invalid and allows us to define precisely the conditions for zero-order and first-order product formation. Remarkably, analytical approximations provided by the tQSSA closely match the expected stochastic kinetics for as few as 15 reactant molecules, suggesting that the conditions for the validity of the tQSSA and for its various simplifications are also of relevance at low molecule numbers.
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- A Rami Tzafriri
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 16-343, Cambridge, MA 02139, and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston 02115, USA.
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Paul JJ, Kircus SR, Sorrell TN, Ropp PA, Thorp HH. Effects of coordinating metal ions on the mediated inhibition of trypsin by bis(benzimidazoles) and related compounds. Inorg Chem 2006; 45:5126-35. [PMID: 16780335 DOI: 10.1021/ic0516461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The presence of the Zn2+ ion dramatically enhances the inhibition of trypsin and tryptase by amidine-modified benzimidazole inhibitors via coordination to both the catalytically active Ser195 hydroxyl and His57 imidazole residues of the enzyme and the nitrogens of the amidine-modified benzimidazole inhibitor (Janc, J. W.; Clark, J. M.; Warne, R. L.; Elrod, K. C.; Katz, B. A.; Moore, W. R. Biochemistry 2000, 39, 4792-4800). Some new 5-amidino-2-substituted benzimidazoles were synthesized and compared to known related molecules to explore systematically the metal-mediated inhibition of bovine trypsin as a function of coordinating groups and metal ions. These compounds take advantage of the favorable interaction between the amidine group on one side of the inhibitor and the Asp189 carboxylate in the binding pocket of the enzyme. The 5-amidino-2-substituted benzimidazoles all demonstrated similar inhibition constants (Ki) of 20-50 microM in the absence of metal ions. In the presence of Zn2+, inhibition increased to varying extents, depending upon the group substituted at the 2 position of the benzimidazole. The largest increase in inhibition in the presence of Zn2+ was seen with (5-amidino-2-benzimidazolyl)-2-benzimidazolylmethane with an apparent inhibition constant (Ki') of 0.37 +/- 0.06 nM, giving a 59,000-fold increase in inhibition when Zn2+ is present. Other metal ions, including Mn2+, Sc3+, and Hg2+, also increased the inhibition by several of the benzimidazole derivatives synthesized. The compound bis(2-benzimidazolyl)methane (BBIM) was also examined because it lacks the amidine group that provides a favorable hydrogen-bonding interaction with Asp189 in the binding pocket of trypsin. In the absence of metal ions, BBIM did not have a detectable affinity for trypsin; however, in the presence of Zn2+, a Ki' of 127 +/- 3 nM was observed. This result demonstrates that an affinity for the enzyme in the absence of metal ions is not required for potent metal-mediated inhibition, greatly expanding the possibilities for metal mediation of nonmetalloenzymes.
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- Jared J Paul
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA
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HOBBIGER F. The action of carbamic esters and tetraethylpyrophosphate on normal and curarized frog rectus muscle. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND CHEMOTHERAPY 2004; 5:37-48. [PMID: 15405467 PMCID: PMC1509962 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1950.tb00575.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Wu Q, Criscione KR, Grunewald GL, McLeish MJ. Phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase inhibition: re-evaluation of kinetic data. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2004; 14:4217-20. [PMID: 15261273 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2004.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2004] [Revised: 06/03/2004] [Accepted: 06/07/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Inhibitors of phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase [PNMT, the enzyme that catalyzes the final step in the biosynthesis of epinephrine (Epi)] may be of use in determining the role of Epi in the central nervous system. Here we demonstrate that a routinely used assay for screening PNMT inhibitors is not appropriate for those inhibitors having K(i) values less than 1 microM. A revised assay has been developed that shows some inhibitors bind two orders of magnitude more tightly than previously reported.
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- Qian Wu
- College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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GOLDSTEIN A. Properties and behavior of purified human plasma cholinesterase. III. Competitive inhibition by prostigmine and other alkaloids with special reference to differences in kinetic behavior. Arch Biochem Biophys 2004; 34:169-88. [PMID: 14904048 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(51)80023-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ward WH, Holdgate GA. Isothermal titration calorimetry in drug discovery. PROGRESS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY 2002; 38:309-76. [PMID: 11774798 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6468(08)70097-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) follows the heat change when a test compound binds to a target protein. It allows precise measurement of affinity. The method is direct, making interpretation facile, because there is no requirement for competing molecules. Titration in the presence of other ligands rapidly provides information on the mechanism of action of the test compound, identifying the intermolecular complexes that are relevant for structure-based design. Calorimetry allows measurement of stoichiometry and so evaluation of the proportion of the sample that is functional. ITC can characterize protein fragments and catalytically inactive mutant enzymes. It is the only technique which directly measures the enthalpy of binding (delta H degree). Interpretation of delta H degree and its temperature dependence (delta Cp) is usually qualitative, not quantitative. This is because of complicated contributions from linked equilibria and a single change in structure giving modification of several physicochemical properties. Measured delta H degree values allow characterization of proton movement linked to the association of protein and ligand, giving information on the ionization of groups involved in binding. Biochemical systems characteristically exhibit enthalpy-entropy compensation where increased bonding is offset by an entropic penalty, reducing the magnitude of change in affinity. This also causes a lack of correlation between the free energy of binding (delta G degree) and delta H degree. When characterizing structure-activity relationships (SAR), most groups involved in binding can be detected as contributing to delta H degree, but not to affinity. Large enthalpy changes may reflect a modified binding mode, or protein conformation changes. Thus, delta H degree values may highlight a potential discontinuity in SAR, so that experimental structural data are likely to be particularly valuable in molecular design.
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- W H Ward
- AstraZeneca, R & D Mereside, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 4TG, UK
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Topham CM, Gul S, Resmini M, Sonkaria S, Gallacher G, Brocklehurst K. The kinetic basis of a general method for the investigation of active site content of enzymes and catalytic antibodies: first-order behaviour under single-turnover and cycling conditions. J Theor Biol 2000; 204:239-56. [PMID: 10887904 DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The theoretical foundation has been laid for the investigation of catalytic systems using first-order kinetics and for a general kinetic method of investigation of the active site content, E(a), of enzymes, catalytic antibodies, and other enzyme-like catalysts. The method involves a combination of steady-state and single-turnover kinetics to provide Vmax and Km and k(lim)(obs) and K(app)(m), respectively. The validity of the method is shown to remain valid for two extensions of the simple two-step enzyme catalysis model (a) when the catalyst preparation contains molecules (Eb) that bind substrate but fail to catalyse product formation and (b) when the catalyst itself binds substrate non-productively as well as productively. The former is a particularly serious complication for polyclonal catalytic antibodies and the latter a potential complication for all catalysts. For the simple model and for (b) Vmax/k(lim)(obs) provides the value of [Ea]T and for (a) its upper limit. This can be refined by consideration of the relative values of Km and the equilibrium dissociation constant of EbS. For the polyclonal catalytic antibody preparation investigated, the fact that K(app/m) > Km demonstrates for the first time the presence of a substrate-binding but non-catalytic component in a polyclonal preparation. First-order behaviour in catalytic systems occurs not only with a large excess of catalyst over substrate but also with lower catalyst/substrate ratios, including the equimolar condition, when K(app)(m) >> [S]0, a phenomenon that is not widely appreciated.
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- C M Topham
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, CNRS UPR 9062, Toulouse, France
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Ward WH, Holdgate GA, Rowsell S, McLean EG, Pauptit RA, Clayton E, Nichols WW, Colls JG, Minshull CA, Jude DA, Mistry A, Timms D, Camble R, Hales NJ, Britton CJ, Taylor IW. Kinetic and structural characteristics of the inhibition of enoyl (acyl carrier protein) reductase by triclosan. Biochemistry 1999; 38:12514-25. [PMID: 10493822 DOI: 10.1021/bi9907779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Triclosan is used widely as an antibacterial agent in dermatological products, mouthwashes, and toothpastes. Recent studies imply that antibacterial activity results from binding to enoyl (acyl carrier protein) reductase (EACPR, EC 1.3.1.9). We first recognized the ability of triclosan to inhibit EACPR from Escherichia coli in a high throughput screen where the enzyme and test compound were preincubated with NAD(+), which is a product of the reaction. The concentration of triclosan required for 50% inhibition approximates to 50% of the enzyme concentration, indicating that the free compound is depleted by binding to EACPR. With no preincubation or added NAD(+), the degree of inhibition by 150 nM triclosan increases gradually over several minutes. The onset of inhibition is more rapid when NAD(+) is added. Gel filtration and mass spectrometry show that inhibition by triclosan is reversible. Steady-state assays were designed to avoid depletion of free inhibitor and changes in the degree of inhibition. The results suggest that triclosan binds to E-NAD(+) complex, with a dissociation constant around 20-40 pM. Triclosan follows competitive kinetics with respect to NADH, giving an inhibition constant of 38 pM at zero NADH and saturating NAD(+). Uncompetitive kinetics are observed when NAD(+) is varied, giving an inhibition constant of 22 pM at saturating NAD(+). By following regain of catalytic activity after dilution of EACPR that had been preincubated with triclosan and NAD(+), the rate constant for dissociation of the inhibitor (k(off)) is measured as 1.9 x 10(-4) s(-1). The association rate constant (k(on)) is estimated as 2.6 x 10(7) s(-1) M(-1) by monitoring the onset of inhibition during assays started by addition of EACPR. As expected, the ratio k(off)/k(on) = 7.1 pM is similar to the inhibition constants from the steady-state studies. The crystal structure of E. coli EACPR in a complex with coenzyme and triclosan has been determined at 1.9 A resolution, showing that this compound binds in a similar site to the diazaborine inhibitors. The high affinity of triclosan appears to be due to structural similarity to a tightly bound intermediate in catalysis.
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- W H Ward
- AstraZeneca, Mereside, Macclesfield, Cheshire, U.K.
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NANNINGA LB. Investigation on the effect of calcium ions on the splitting of adenosinetriphosphate by myosin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1998; 36:191-202. [PMID: 14425968 DOI: 10.1016/0006-3002(59)90084-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CINADER B. Antibody to enzymes--a three-component system. Introduction: immunochemistry of enzymes. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1998; 103:495-548. [PMID: 14021385 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1963.tb53717.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fraser SJ. Double perturbation series in the differential equations of enzyme kinetics. J Chem Phys 1998. [DOI: 10.1063/1.476578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Desmarets J, Gresser O, Guedin D, Frelin C. Interaction of endothelin-1 with cloned bovine ETA receptors: biochemical parameters and functional consequences. Biochemistry 1996; 35:14868-75. [PMID: 8942650 DOI: 10.1021/bi961238w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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This paper defines the properties of interaction of endothelin-1 (Et-1) with cloned bovine ETA receptors. The Kd value of Et-1/ETA receptor complexes was estimated in membrane preparations to 20 pM using kinetic experiments and saturation experiments performed under quasi equilibrium conditions. Competition experiments yield a wide range of apparent Kd(Et-1) values from 20 pM to 1 nM which were in fact measures of the receptor concentrations rather than of Kd values. This resulted from the fact that complex second-order rate kinetics rather than pseudo-first-order kinetics control the association of Et-1 to its receptor when the receptor concentration is larger than Kd(Et-1). Et-1 induced a production of inositol phosphates with an apparent affinity of 2.3 nM, 100 times higher than the Kd(Et-1) value determined previously. Numerical simulation suggested that under time-limited conditions, sub-nanomolar rather than picomolar concentrations of Et-1 are necessary to occupy an important fraction of picomolar sites. It is concluded that bovine ETA receptors have a single affinity state for Et-1 (Kd = 20 pM) and that this affinity state can account for nanomolar actions of Et-1 in intact cells. It is suggested that the sensitivity of a preparation to Et-1 is a cell property rather than a receptor property. It is also suggested that the main advantage of high-affinity Et-1 binding is to promote autocrine actions rather than a high potency of the peptide.
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- J Desmarets
- Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
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Ward WH, Holdgate GA, Freeman S, McTaggart F, Girdwood PA, Davidson RG, Mallion KB, Brown GR, Eakin MA. Inhibition of squalene synthase in vitro by 3-(biphenyl-4-yl)-quinuclidine. Biochem Pharmacol 1996; 51:1489-501. [PMID: 8630090 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(96)00090-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Squalene synthase (SQS) catalyses a step following the final branch in the pathway of cholesterol biosynthesis. Inhibition of this enzyme, therefore, is an approach for the treatment of atherosclerosis with the potential for low side effects. We have characterised the inhibition of rat liver microsomal SQS by 3-(biphenyl-4-yl)quinuclidine (BPQ). BPQ follows slow binding kinetics in that the rate of accumulation of product decreases with time if the inhibitor is added when the assay is started. Preincubation of BPQ and SQS leads to a biphasic dose-response where accumulation of product is linear with time only for the sensitive phase. When the farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) substrate is present at 19.6 microM, approximately 77% of the SQS activity is sensitive to the inhibitor (vOs) and the remainder is insensitive (vOi). The apparent inhibition constants (K'i values) are respectively K'is = 4.5 nM and K'ii = 1300 nM. Similar biphasic behaviour is exhibited by other inhibitors and in microsomes prepared from human and marmoset liver. As the concentration of FPP is reduced below 19.6 microM, there is a decrease in the relative contribution from vOi. Conversely, the value of K'is for BPQ remains constant when the FPP concentration is changed, showing noncompetitive kinetics with respect to this substrate. Possible causes of the observed kinetics are discussed. Inhibition by BPQ is said to follow tight binding kinetics because the value of K'is is similar to the concentration of inhibitor binding sites. Thus, to avoid an artefactual variation in potency when the enzyme concentration is varied, it is necessary to allow for the effects of depletion of free inhibitor. Furthermore, estimates of potency that average activity across the two phases are influenced by the relative contributions of each phase. These contributions differ according to the FPP concentration and the species used as the source of microsomes. Thus, it is necessary to separate the phases to compare measurements made in different experiments. Our observations indicate that careful experimental design and data analysis are required to characterise the kinetics of SQS inhibitors.
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- W H Ward
- ZENECA Pharmaceuticals, Macclesfield, Cheshire, U.K
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Borghans JA, de Boer RJ, Segel LA. Extending the quasi-steady state approximation by changing variables. Bull Math Biol 1996; 58:43-63. [PMID: 8819753 DOI: 10.1007/bf02458281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The parameter domain for which the quasi-steady state assumption is valid can be considerably extended merely by a simple change of variable. This is demonstrated for a variety of biologically significant examples taken from enzyme kinetics, immunology and ecology.
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- J A Borghans
- Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands,
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- C G Knight
- Department of Cell Adhesion and Signalling, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Russell PJ, Williams A, Avila D, Chinn E, Taulane JP. Characteristics of rabbit muscle adenylate kinase inhibition by sulfur and recovery by dithiothreitol. JOURNAL OF ENZYME INHIBITION 1995; 9:179-94. [PMID: 8847598 DOI: 10.3109/14756369509021484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Structure-function relationships of rabbit muscle adenylate kinase (RMAK) were studied by examining the characteristics of inhibitions by hydrophobic inhibitors and reactivations by sulfhydryl reagents. RMAK is inhibited by 1-butanol,N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) and elemental sulfur (S8) with increasing effectiveness in the order of increasing hydrophobicity. Characteristics of these hydrophobic inhibitors are compared with inhibitors forming covalent bonds or reversible complexes. A mechanism is proposed for hydrophobic inhibitors of RMAK that involves conformational changes promoted by interacting with hydrophobic regions. The reversal of RMAK inhibition by sulfhydryl compounds involves a conformational change that exposes hydrophobic regions and the inhibitor to water. Circular dichroism (CD) data show changes in the secondary structures of RMAK, indicating that the inhibitors and the sulfhydryl compounds promote conformational changes. The results of these studies show that the activity of a small enzyme can be controlled in a manner analogous to the allosteric control of larger enzymes.
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- P J Russell
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA
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Goff DJ, Kull FJ. The inhibition of human salivary alpha-amylase by type II alpha-amylase inhibitor from Triticum aestivum is competitive, slow and tight-binding. JOURNAL OF ENZYME INHIBITION 1995; 9:163-70. [PMID: 8583253 DOI: 10.3109/14756369509042815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A kinetic analysis of the inhibition of human salivary alpha-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) by wheat seed (Triticum aestivum) type II alpha-amylase inhibitor revealed the inhibition was slow and tight-binding. The inhibition was competitive with an inhibition binding constant of the alpha-amylase inhibitor for alpha-amylase of 0.29 nM. The KM of alpha-amylase for soluble starch (calculated per mole of alpha-1,4 linked maltose residues) was 5.87 mM.
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- D J Goff
- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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Simon JF, Vernoux JP. Highly sensitive assay of okadaic acid using protein phosphatase and paranitrophenyl phosphate. NATURAL TOXINS 1994; 2:293-301. [PMID: 7866665 DOI: 10.1002/nt.2620020508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A colorimetric phosphatase-inhibition bioassay was developed for the quantitative measurement of okadaic acid (OA) the main diarrhetic toxin responsible for diarrhetic shellfish poisoning. The assay used an artificial substrate, paranitrophenylphosphate, and a semi-purified protein phosphatase PP2Ac containing extract prepared from rabbit muscle. Calibration dose-inhibition curves were constructed using standard OA and they permitted easy determination of the enzyme concentration Et in their linear portion. In the range of linearity, the slope increased when Et decreased, thus giving a detecting limit of 0.04 pmol in the reaction mixture (1 ml). The lowest assayable concentration of OA was 4 ng/ml in aqueous solutions and 40 ng/ml (i.e., 100 ng of OA per g of mussel tissue) in crude methanol mussels extracts. The intra and interassay coefficients of variation in the measurement of OA for the toxin spiked aqueous samples averaged, respectively, 7.7% and 3.7%, and interexperiments coefficients of variation for the toxin spiked mussel extracts averaged 4.6%. The presence of OA was ascertained by a method in which one assay was performed at two or three different levels of enzyme concentration. The rapidity, accuracy, reproducibility, specificity, and simplicity of the procedure provides a simple way to assay okadaic acid in buffered or complex solutions.
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- J F Simon
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, University of Caen, France
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Jackman AL, Newell DR, Gibson W, Jodrell DI, Taylor GA, Bishop JA, Hughes LR, Calvert AH. The biochemical pharmacology of the thymidylate synthase inhibitor, 2-desamino-2-methyl-N10-propargyl-5,8-dideazafolic acid (ICI 198583). Biochem Pharmacol 1991; 42:1885-95. [PMID: 1741766 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(91)90586-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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2-Desamino-2-methyl-N10-propargyl-5,8-dideazafolic acid (ICI 198583) is a more water-soluble analogue of the quinazoline-based thymidylate synthase (TS) inhibitor, N10-propargyl-5,8-dideazafolic acid (CB3717). A 3-fold loss in TS inhibitory activity (murine and human TS, Ki = 10 nM) was accompanied by a 40-fold increase in growth inhibitory potency against L1210 and W1L2 cells in vitro (IC50 = 0.085 and 0.05 microM, respectively) when compared with CB3717. In L1210 cells a concentrative uptake mechanism was demonstrated for [3H]ICI 198583 (Kt = 2.9 microM). The L1210:1565 cell line, with an impaired ability to transport reduced folates or methotrexate (MTX), was resistant (100-fold relative to the wild-type L1210 line) to ICI 198583 (but not CB3717) and did not take up [3H]ICI 198583 significantly. The measurement of folylpolyglutamate synthetase (FPGS) substrate activity demonstrated a Km of 40 microM for ICI 198583 and a Vmax/Km (relative to folic acid) of 3.5. The formation of intracellular polyglutamate derivatives was demonstrated in both L1210 (mouse) and WIL2 (human) cells grown in vitro after exposure to 1 microM [3H]ICI 198583. In L1210 cells, by 4 hr, approximately 50% of the intracellular 3H(approximately 1 microM) was found as polyglutamate forms of ICI 198583, principally as tri- and tetraglutamates. After 24 hr the ICI 198583 polyglutamate pool had expanded, the tetraglutamate metabolite predominated and there was significant formation of the pentaglutamate. Upon resuspension of L1210 cells in drug free medium, ICI 198583 was largely lost from the cells but the polyglutamates were preferentially retained, after 24 hr approximately 70% remained. Synthetic ICI 198583 polyglutamates were shown to be up to 100-fold more potent as inhibitors of isolated TS than the parent compound. Following in vivo administration (500 mg/kg i.v.) ICI 198583 was cleared rapidly from the plasma of mice (T1/2 beta = 16 min, clearance = 42 mL/min/kg). Despite this clearance there was prolonged, dose-dependent inhibition of TS in L1210:NCI cells in vivo. Thus, following 500 mg/kg i.v. the flux through TS was inhibited by greater than 80% for at least 24 hr. Administration of five doses at 5 mg/kg daily of ICI 198583 to L1210:ICR tumour-bearing mice resulted in greater than 60% of the mice being cured, a 10-fold improvement in potency over CB3717. The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) for ICI 198583 using this schedule was greater than 500 mg/kg/day compared with 200 mg/kg/day of CB3717.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- A L Jackman
- Drug Development Section, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, U.K
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Wetherell JR, French MC. A comparison of the decarbamoylation rates of physostigmine-inhibited plasma and red cell cholinesterases of man with other species. Biochem Pharmacol 1991; 42:515-20. [PMID: 1907148 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(91)90313-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Plasma and red cells from a variety of animal species were used to demonstrate that there is a relationship between the decarbamoylation rates of physostigmine-inhibited plasma and red cell cholinesterases in vitro and the effectiveness of carbamate pretreatment against nerve agent poisoning reported in the literature. Decarbamoylation rates were faster in the non-human primates than in the guinea-pig, and carbamate pretreatment is more effective in these species than in the guinea-pig. The data for the decarbamoylation rates of physostigmine-inhibited enzymes suggests that the non-human primates are the best animal model for extrapolation of protection studies from animal species to man. Control values for red cell acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity (mumol/min/mL blood) using acetylthiocholine (1 mM) were higher in the human (4.98) and the rhesus monkey (4.14) than in the marmoset (0.84) and the guinea-pig (0.83). Plasma cholinesterase (ChE) activity (mumol/min/mL plasma) using butyrylthiocholine (10 mM) was highest in the rhesus monkey (9.29), intermediate in human (5.10) and guinea-pig (6.06), and lowest in the marmoset (4.07). There was a species difference in the relative activity of AChE: ChE in blood, human (65:35), rhesus monkey (45:55), marmoset (30:70) and guinea-pig (20:80). The rate of recovery of red cell AChE and plasma ChE activities, following incubation of whole blood with physostigmine (1 x 10(-7) M), was in the order human greater than rhesus monkey greater than marmoset greater than guinea-pig. During the incubation of red cells with physostigmine there was little recovery of AChE activity for 3-4 hr in any species. During the incubation of plasma with physostigmine there was complete recovery of ChE activity by 2-3 hr in the human and rhesus monkey and a significant recovery by 3 hr in the marmoset and guinea-pig. This suggests that a component of plasma, possibly ChE, was responsible for the degradation of physostigmine, presumably by hydrolysis. There was a marked species difference in the decarbamoylation rates of physostigmine-inhibited enzyme. In the red cell the t1/2 values (min) were 14.8 (human), 21.2 (rhesus monkey), 17.9 (marmoset) and 31.9 (guinea-pig). In the plasma the t1/2 values (min) were 11.2 (human), 32.9 (rhesus monkey), 44.1 (marmoset) and 52.4 (guinea-pig).
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- J R Wetherell
- Biology Division, Chemical Defence Establishment, Salisbury, Wiltshire, U.K
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Jackman AL, Marsham PR, Moran RG, Kimbell R, O'Connor BM, Hughes LR, Calvert AH. Thymidylate synthase inhibitors: the in vitro activity of a series of heterocyclic benzoyl ring modified 2-desamino-2-methyl-N10-substituted-5,8-dideazafolates. ADVANCES IN ENZYME REGULATION 1991; 31:13-27. [PMID: 1877386 DOI: 10.1016/0065-2571(91)90006-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Heterocyclic para-aminobenzoate modifications of 2-desamino-2-methyl-5,8-dideazafolic acid and a series of its N10-substituted analogs have produced a number of interesting compounds that have enabled a deeper understanding of the biochemical events required for activity in this class of antimetabolite. There is a relationship that has become apparent between compound potency and both uptake via the reduced-folate carrier and FPGS substrate activity. Rapid cellular uptake and metabolism of polyglutamate forms that are approximately 100-fold more potent as inhibitors of TS can translate a modest TS inhibitor such as ICI D1694 into a very potent inhibitor of cell growth (approximately 500- and approximately 10-fold more potent than CB3717 or ICI 198583, respectively). Polyglutamation may therefore act as an almost essential activation step and ICI D1694 may be highly specific for tumors expressing both the reduced-folate carrier and FPGS. Polyglutamation of folate analogs also leads to drug retention which may play a major role in the pharmacodynamics of TS inhibition by ICI D1694 in vivo. Current studies with 3H-ICI D1694 are aimed at demonstrating metabolism to polyglutamates in tumor cells. The serious toxic limitations of CB3717, i.e., liver and kidney toxicities, are not seen with ICI D1694 reflecting the good water solubility of the drug compared with CB3717. The toxicities observed in mice are however to hematological tissues and are due to its TS inhibitory effects. Thus ICI D1694 may elicit toxicities in man more typical of an antimetabolite than of CB3717. The clinical evaluation of ICI D1694 may further our understanding of the role that metabolism to polyglutamates may have in therapeutic activity.
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- A L Jackman
- Drug Development Section, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, U.K
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Jarabak R, Westley J. Competitive partial inhibitors of serum albumin-catalyzed sulfur cyanolysis. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY 1990; 5:1-8. [PMID: 2402002 DOI: 10.1002/jbt.2570050102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Efforts to locate the active site for sulfur cyanolysis catalyzed by bovine serum albumin have led to systematic tests of several compounds that inhibit the catalyzed reaction. Hexanoate and 5-dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulfonate bind at the same site and are partial inhibitors competitive with cyanide, uncompetitive with respect to sulfur. Various dansyl amino acids and 1-anilino-8-naphthalene sulfonate display the same inhibitory behavior but bis (1-anilino-8-naphthalene sulfonate) is a total inhibitor competitive with cyanide. These findings are interpreted to indicate that the cyanolysis active site is near, but not at, one of the short-chain fatty acid binding sites on albumin subdomain 2-AB or 3-AB. Both ionic repulsion and steric considerations are implicated in the mechanisms of inhibition.
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- R Jarabak
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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De Bisschop HC, De Meerleer WA, Willems JL. Stereoselective phosphonylation of human serum proteins by soman. Biochem Pharmacol 1987; 36:3587-91. [PMID: 3675615 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(87)90006-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Phosphonylation has been reported as part of the degradation of soman in human serum. The concentration of phosphonylation sites can be quantified by comparing the degradation in serum, preincubated with soman (all sites occupied), with the degradation in serum not preincubated. The mean value of 73 nM of phosphonylation sites is in agreement with the concentration of active sites of butyrylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8.), which is known to be phosphonylated by soman. Hence, it is concluded that butyrylcholinesterase accounts for all the phosphonylation sites present in human serum. The stereoselectivity of the reaction was investigated by using epimeric pairs of soman, in casu C(+)P(+/-)- and C(-)P(+/-)-soman. In a first approach enzymatic hydrolysis was blocked and the ratios of phosphonylation rate constants, C(+)P(+)/C(+)P(-) and C(-)P(+)/C(-)P(-), were determined to be 0.15 and 0.31, respectively. In a second approach, in untreated serum, the bimolecular phosphonylation rate constants of C(+)P(-)- and C(-)P(-)-soman were determined, neglecting their small hydrolysis rate and taking advantage of the fast enzymatically catalysed disappearance of their respective P(+)-epimeric counterparts. Values for C(+)P(-)- and C(-)P(-)-soman are 3.6 X 10(7) and 0.6 X 10(7) M-1.min-1, respectively. Using a combination of both approaches, a relative ranking of phosphonylation rates of the four isomers was found to be C(+)P(-) much greater than C(+)P(+) approximately equal to C(-)P(-) greater than C(-)P(+).
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- H C De Bisschop
- Technical Division of the Army, Department for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection, Vilvoorde, Belgium
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A theory has been developed for the kinetics of coupled enzyme reactions. This theory does not assume that the first reaction is irreversible. The validity of this theory is confirmed by a model system consisting of enoyl-CoA hydratase (EC 4.2.1.17) and 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.35) with 2,4-decadienoyl coenzyme A (CoA) as a substrate. This theory, in contrast to the conventional theory, proves to be indispensible for dealing with coupled enzyme systems where the equilibrium constant of the first reaction is small and/or the concentration of the coupling enzyme is higher than that of the intermediate. Equations derived on the basis of this theory can be used to calculate steady-state velocities of coupled enzyme reactions and to predict the time course of coupled enzyme reactions during the pre steady state.
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- S Y Yang
- Department of Chemistry, City College of the City University of New York, New York 10031
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Channeling of 3-hydroxy-4-trans-decenoyl coenzyme A on the bifunctional beta-oxidation enzyme from rat liver peroxisomes and on the large subunit of the fatty acid oxidation complex from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66723-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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