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The kinetics of the reversible inhibition of heart lactate dehydrogenase through the formation of the enzyme-oxidized nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide-pyruvate compounds.

ABSTRACT: The inhibition of lactate dehydrogenase at high pyruvate concentration was studied in three ways. First, a rapid decrease in the rate of the enzyme reaction was observed; secondly, the rate of formation of a pyruvate-NAD(+) compound was followed by the change in E(325); thirdly, the rate of quenching of the protein fluorescence was measured. The data obtained at pH6.0 at different temperatures and ionic strengths as functions of pyruvate, NAD(+) and enzyme concentrations show that the extent of inhibition can be correlated with the reversible formation of a compound between pyruvate and enzyme-bound NAD(+). It is suggested that the detailed kinetic analysis of the formation of this abortive ternary compound will give pertinent information about properties of the enzyme-NAD(+) compound involved in the normal catalytic process.

SUBMITTER: Gutfreund H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1198559 | biostudies-other | 1968 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:The stopped-flow kinetic studies described in this and the following paper (Südi, 1974) demonstrate that a Haldane-type description of the reversible lactate dehydrogenase reaction presents an experimentally feasible task. Combined results of these two papers yield numerical values for the six rate constants defined by the following equilibrium scheme, where E represents lactate dehydrogenase: [Formula: see text] The experiments were carried out at pH8.4 at a relatively low temperature (6.3 degrees C) with the pig heart enzyme. Identification of the above two intermediates and determination of the corresponding rate constants actually involve four series of independent observations in these studies, since (a) the reaction can be followed in both directions, and (b) both the u.v. absorption and the fluorescence of the coenzymes are altered in the reaction, and it is shown that these two spectral changes do not occur simultaneously. Kinetic observations made in the reverse direction are reported in this paper. It is demonstrated that the fluorescence of NADH can no longer be observed in the ternary complex E(NADH) (Pyr). Even though the oxidation-reduction reaction rapidly follows the formation of this complex, the numerical values of k(-4) (8.33x10(5)m(-1).s(-1)) and k(+4) (222s(-1)) are easily obtained from a directly observed second-order reaction step in which fluorescent but not u.v.-absorbing material is disappearing. U.v.-absorption measurements do not clearly resolve the subsequent oxidation-reduction step from the dissociation of lactate. It is shown that this must be due partly to the instrumental dead time, and partly to a low transient concentration of E(NAD+) (Lac) in the two-step sequential reaction in which the detectable disappearance of u.v.-absorbing material takes place. It is estimated that about one-tenth of the total change in u.v. absorption is due to a ;burst reaction' in which E(NAD+) (Lac) is produced, and this estimation yields, from k(obs.)=120s(-1), k(-2)=1200s(-1).

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The kinetics of the reversible inhibition of heart lactate dehydrogenase through the formation of the enzyme-oxidized nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide-pyruvate compounds.

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