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The rate-determining step in pepsin-catalysed reactions, and evidence against an acyl-enzyme intermediate.


ABSTRACT: To delineate further the pathway of pepsin-catalysed reactions, three types of experiments were performed: (a) the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of a number of di- and tri-peptide substrates was studied with a view to observing the rate-determining breakdown of a common intermediate; (b) the interaction of pepsin with several possible substrates for which ;burst' kinetics might be expected was investigated; (c) attempts were made to trap a possible acyl-enzyme intermediate with [(14)C]methanol in both a hydrolytic reaction (with N-acetyl-l-phenylalanyl-l-phenylalanylglycine) and in a ;virtual' reaction (with N-acetyl-l-phenylalanine) under conditions where extensive hydrolysis or (18)O exchange is known to occur. It is concluded that (i) intermediates in pepsin-catalysed reactions (aside from the Michaelis complex) occur subsequently to the rate-determining transition state, and (ii) an acyl-enzyme intermediate, if such is formed, cannot be trapped with [(14)C]methanol in these systems.

SUBMITTER: Cornish-Bowden AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1184644 | biostudies-other | 1969 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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