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Modification of pig heart lactate dehydrogenase with methyl methanethiosulphonate to produce an enzyme with altered catalytic activity.

ABSTRACT: Methyl methanethiosulphonate was used to produce a modification of the essential thiol group in lactate dehydrogenase which leaves the enzyme catalytically active. Methyl methanethiosulphonate produced a progressive inhibition of enzyme activity, with 2mM-pyruvate and 0.14mM-NADH as substrates, which ceased once the enzyme had lost 70-90% of its activity. In contrast, with 10mM-lactate and 0.4mM-NAD+ as substrates the enzyme was virtually completely inhibited. The observed inhibition was critically dependent on the chosen substrate concentration, since methanethiolation with methyl methanethiosulphonate resulted in a large decrease in affinity for pyruvate. At 0.14mM-NADH, methanethiolation increased the apparent KmPyr from from 40micronM for the control enzyme to 12mM for the modified enzyme. Steady-state kinetics showed that there was not a statistically significant change in either KmNADH or KsNADH. At saturating NADH and pyruvate concentrations, the Vmax. was virtually unaffected for the methanethiolated enzyme. However, a decrease in Vmax. was observed when the modified enzyme was incubated in dilute solution. The modification of lactate dehydrogenase by methyl methanethiosulphonate involved the active site, since inhibition was completely prevented by substrate-analogue pairs such as NADH and oxamate or NAD+ and oxalate. The formation of complexes between methanethiolated lactate dehydrogenase and substrates or substrate analogues can also be shown by re-activation experiments. The methanethiolated enzyme was re-activated in a time-dependent reaction by dithiothreitol and this was prevented by oxamate, by NADH and by NADH plus oxamate in increasing order of effectiveness. The results of this work are interpreted in terms of a role for the essential thiol group in the binding of substrates.

SUBMITTER: Bloxham DP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1164552 | biostudies-other | 1977 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:Pig heart lactate dehydrogenase was studied in the direction of pyruvate and NADH formation by recording rapid changes in extinction, proton concentration, nucleotide fluorescence and protein fluorescence. Experiments measuring extinction changes show that there is a very rapid formation of NADH within the first millisecond and that the amplitude of this phase (phase 1) increases threefold over the pH range 6-8. A second transient rate (phase 2) can also be distinguished (whose rate is pH-dependent), followed by a steady-state rate (phase 3) of NADH production. The sum of the amplitudes of the first two phases corresponds to 1mol of NADH produced/mol of active sites of lactate dehydrogenase. Experiments that measured the liberation of protons by using Phenol Red as an indicator show that no proton release occurs during the initial very rapid formation of NADH (phase 1), but protons are released during subsequent phases of NADH production. Fluorescence experiments help to characterize these phases, and show that the very rapid phase 1 corresponds to the establishment of an equilibrium between E(NAD) (Lactate) right harpoon over left harpoon H(+)E(NADH) (Pyruvate). This equilibrium can be altered by changing lactate concentration or pH, and the H(+)E(NADH) (Pyruvate) species formed has very low nucleotide fluorescence and quenched protein fluorescence. Phase 2 corresponds to the dissociation of pyruvate and a proton from the complex with a rate constant of 1150s(-1). The observed rate constant is slower than this and is proportional to the position of the preceding equilibrium. The E(NADH) formed has high nucleotide fluorescence and quenched protein fluorescence. The reaction, which is rate-limiting during steady-state turnover, must then follow this step and be involved with dissociation of NADH from the enzyme or some conformational change immediately preceding dissociation. Several inhibitory complexes have also been studied including E(NAD+) (Oxamate) and E(NADH) (Oxamate') and the abortive ternary complex E(NADH) (Lactate). The rate of NADH dissociation from the enzyme was measured and found to be the same whether measured by ligand displacement or by relaxation experiments. These results are discussed in relation to the overall mechanism of lactate dehydrogenase turnover and the independence of the four binding sites in the active tetramer.

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