Properties of the histidine residues of indole-chymotrypsin. Implications for the activation process and catalytic mechanism.
Biochem J, 1975/6;147(3):411-16.
PMID: 241327
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Abstract
The use of a linear free-energy relationship shows that both histidine residues of alpha-chymotrypsin and chymotrypsinogen are super-reactive toward 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene. The binding of indole to the specificity site of alpha-chymotrypsin causes both histidine residues to become less reactive. On the basis of these results and those from X-ray-crystallographic studies, the following conclusions are made. (1) The super-reactivity of the catalytic-site histidine-57 is due to charge transfer from aspartic acid-102 by means of hydrogen bonding. (2) The aspartic acid-102-histidine-57-serine-195 'charge-relay' system is not complete in the zymogen or native enzyme and only on binding of a suitable substrate or ligand to the specificity site of the enzyme is the charge transfer to serine-195 completed. (3) The lack of substantial enzymic activity in the zymogen is due to the absence of a completed specificity site, and therefore it cannot bind suitable substrates or ligands to induce completion of the charge-relay system.
MeSH terms
Binding Sites; Binding, Competitive; Catalysis; Chemical Phenomena; Chemistry, Physical; Chymotrypsin; Enzyme Activation; Histidine; Hydrogen Bonding; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Imidazoles; Indoles; Ligands; Protein Binding
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