Structural and mechanistic studies on. beta. -hydroxydecanoly thioester dehydrase and its inhibition by the suicide substrate, 3-decynoic acid, n-acetylcysteamine thioester
..beta..-Hydroxydecanoyl thioester dehydrase catalyzes the interconversion of thioesters of (R)-3-hydroxydecanoic acid, (E)-2-decenoic acid, and (Z)-3-decenoic acid. Dehydrase is irreversibly inactivated by the N-acetylcysteamine thioester of 3-decynoic acid (3-decynoyl-NAC). This is the classic example of suicide enzyme inactivation. The structure of the dehydrase-inactivator adduct is still unclear. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the structure of the inactivator moiety and the stoichiometry of the inactivation of this dimeric enzyme, as well as to conduct structural studies on dehydrase itself. 3-(2-/sup 13/C)Decynoyl-NAC was synthesized and incubated with homogeneous dehydrase. The spectra showed that dehydrase adds to the inactivator so as to quickly produce an (E)-3-(N/sup im/-histidinyl)-3-decenoyl thioester adduct at the active site. This species is slowly converted to the 2-decenoyl thioester congener. Titration of dehydrase with 3-(2/sup 13/C)decynoyl-NAC under these conditions clearly indicated that 2 moles of inactivator are bound to each mole of dehydrase dimer. These experiments provide a self-consistent picture of dehydrase inactivation by 3-decynoyl-NAC and normal dehydrase-catalyzed reactions. Dehydrase was cleaved by chemical fragmentation, and the resulting mixture of peptides were separated by reversed-phase HPLC. Partial N-terminal sequences of purified peptides were obtained by automated Edman technology
- Research Organization:
- Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC
- OSTI ID:
- 5244148
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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