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Evidence that binding to the s2-subsite of papain may be coupled with catalytically relevant structural change involving the cysteine-25-histidine-159 diad. Kinetics of the reaction of papain with a two-protonic-state reactivity probe containing a hydrophobic side chain.

ABSTRACT: A method is proposed by which site-specific reactivity probes that exhibit different reactivities in two ionization states can be used to detect association-activation phenomena that involve repositioning of acid/base groups in enzyme active centres. The pH-dependences of the apparent second-order rate constants (k) for the reactions of the thiol group of papain (EC 3.4.22.2) with a series of two-protonic-state reactivity probes are compared. The short-chain probes, 2,2'-dipyridyl disulphide and n-propyl 2-pyridyl disulphide, react at pH6 in adsorptive complexes and/or transition states with geometries that do not permit hydrogen-bonding of the pyridyl nitrogen atom with the active-centre imidazolium ion, as evidenced by the rate minima at pH6 and the rate maxima at pH4 provided by reagent protonation. Only when the probe molecule, e.g. 4-(N-aminoethyl 2'-pyridyl disulphide)-7-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole [compound(III)], contains a long hydrophobic side chain is the reaction characterized by maximal rates at about pH6, as in the acylation step of the catalytic act (at pH6, k(compound III)/k(2,2'-dipyridyl disulphide) approximately 100). It is proposed that this striking difference in profile shape may result from binding of the hydrophobic side chain of compound (III) possibly in the S(2)-subsite of papain, which promotes a change in catalytic-site geometry involving repositioning of the imidazolium ion of histidine-159 and hydrogen-bonding with the N atom of the leaving group, as has been postulated to occur in the acylation step of substate hydrolysis.

SUBMITTER: Brocklehurst K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1161550 | biostudies-other | 1979 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:1.2,2'-Dipyridyl disulphide (2-Py-S-S-2-Py) and n-propyl 2-pyridyl disulphide (propyl-S-S-2-Py) were used as two-protonic-state reactivity probes to investigate the active centre of papain (EC 3.4.22.2).2. The existence of a striking rate optimum at pH approx. 4 in the reaction of papain not only with the symmetrical probe but also with the unsymmetrical probe is shown to constitute compelling evidence that the thiolate ion component of the cysteine-25-histidine-159 interactive system of papain possesses appreciable nucleophilic character. It is not a necessary requirement that the probe reagent should engage the imidazolium ion of histidine-159 in hydrogen-bonding for the sulphur atom of the interactive system to display nucleophilic character. The single proton-binding site of propyl-S-S-2-Py cannot simultaneously interrupt the active-centre ion pair and provide for rate enhancement as the pH is lowered towards 4. The possible implication of this for the mechanism of papain-catalysed hydrolysis is discussed. 3. The suspected difference in the active centres of papain and ficin (EC 3.4.22.3), which could be a lack in ficin of a carboxy group conformationally equivalent to that of aspartic acid-158 of papain is confirmed. The reactivity of the papain thiol group towards both probe reagents is controlled by two ionizations with pKa close to 4 that are positively co-operative. 4. In the reaction of papain with 2-Py-S-S-2-Py. the reactivity appears to be controlled also by an addition ionization with pKa approx. 5. Possible origins of this additional ionization are discussed. K. The spectral and ionization characteristics of propyl-S-S-2-Py are reported. 6. The reagent reacts rapidly with thiol groups at the sulphur atom distal from the pyridyl ring to provide, at pH values below 9, stoicheiometric release of 2-thiopyridone. This property, together with the ability of the reagent markedly to increase its electrophilicity consequent on protonation, suggests alkyl-2-pyridyl disulphides in general as valuable two-protonic-state reactivity probes with exceptional specificity for thiol groups.

Project description:1. 2-(N'-Acetyl-D-phenylalanyl)hydroxyethyl 2'-pyridyl disulphide (compound IV) (m.p. 59 degrees C; [alpha]D20 -6.6 degrees (c 1.2 in methanol)) was synthesized. 2. The results of a study of the pH-dependence of the second-order rate constant (k) for its reaction with the catalytic-site thiol group (Cys-25) of papain (EC 3.4.22.2) together with analogous kinetic data for the reactions of related time-dependent inhibitors, notably the L-enantiomer of compound (IV) (compound III) and the L- and D-enantiomers of 2-(N'-acetylphenylalanylamino)ethyl 2'-pyridyl disulphide (compounds I and II respectively), were used to assess the contributions of the (P1)-NH ... O = C < (Asp-158) and (P2) > C = O ... H-N-(Gly-66) hydrogen bonds and enantiomeric P2-S2 hydrophobic contacts in two manifestations of dynamic molecular recognition in papain-ligand association: (a) signalling to the catalytic-site region to provide for a (His-159)-IM(+)-H-assisted transition state and (b) the dependence of P2-S2 stereoselectivity on hydrogen-bonding interactions outside the S2 subsite. The analysis involved determination of the reactivities of individual ionization states of the reactions (pH-independent rate constants, k) and associated macroscopic pKa values and difference kinetic specificity energies (delta delta GKS = -RT1n(k1/k2), where k1 is the pH-independent second-order rate constant for reaction with one inhibitor and k2 is the analogous rate constant in the same ionization state for reaction with another inhibitor so that, when the structural change provides that k2 > k1, delta delta GKS is positive. 3. The kinetic data further illuminate the nature of the interdependence of binding interactions in papain first noted by Kowlessur, Topham, Thomas, O'Driscoll, Templeton & Brocklehurst [(1989) Biochem. J. 258, 755-764] in the S2 subsite, S1-S2 intersubsite and catalytic-site regions. Of particular note is the apparent dependence of the binding of the N-Ac-D-Phe moiety on the binding of the leaving group to (His-159)-Im+H and the fact that the resulting rate enhancement is more effective when (P1)-N-H is absent than when it is present. This result revealed by kinetic analysis goes beyond the conclusion suggested by model building that it is possible to make all of the binding contacts in complexes involving the D-enantiomers [(II) and (IV)] as in those involving the L-enantiomers [(I) and (III)].(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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Evidence that binding to the s2-subsite of papain may be coupled with catalytically relevant structural change involving the cysteine-25-histidine-159 diad. Kinetics of the reaction of papain with a two-protonic-state reactivity probe containing a hydrophobic side chain.

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