Description about multienzyme complex (MEC), Inhibitors.

1. An Assignment on
Enzyme Inhibitors, Activation Energy, Enzyme
Kinetics, Multienzyme complex
Submitted to,
Dr. R. Bhatnagar
Professor & Head
Department Of Biochemistry
BACA , AAU, Anand
Submitted by
Joshi Prathmesh Govind
M.Sc (Agri.) Biochemistry.
BACA, AAU, Anand.
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2. WELCOME
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3. Enzyme Inhibitors
 Compounds which convert the enzymes into inactive substances and thus adversely
affect the rate of enzymatically-catalyzed reaction are called as enzyme inhibitors.
Such a process is known as enzyme inhibition.
 Two broad classes of enzyme inhibitors are generally recognized : reversible and
nonreversible itself being subdivided into competitive and noncompetitive
inhibition. depending on whether the enzyme-inhibitor (EI) complex dissociates
rapidly or very slowly.
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4. Feedback Inhibition
Some enzymes catalyze the synthesis of small molecules (such as amino acids) in a
number of steps.
 The enzyme catalyzing the first step in this biosynthesis is inhibited by the end
product of the reaction.
 Such type of regulatory mechanism, which is called feedback inhibition, is
beautifully illustrated by the biosynthesis of isoleucine from threonine.
The reaction completes in 5 steps. The first step reaction is catalyzed by the enzyme
threomine aminase.
The activity of this enzyme is inhibited upon accumulation of high quantities of
isoleucine.
Isoleucine binds to a different site from threonine.
This is called allosteric interaction. However, when the level of isoleucine drops
sufficiently, the enzyme reactivates and isoleucine is resynthesized.
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5. Reversible Enzyme Inhibition
 A reversible inhibitor dissociates very rapidly from its target enzyme because it
becomes very loosely bound with the enzyme.
 Three general types of reversible inhibition are contents distinguished : competitive,
noncompetitive and uncompetitive
Fig. Feedback inhibition of the first enzyme in a multistep
reaction by reversible binding of the end product.
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6. A. Competitive or Substrate analogue inhibition.
 This type of competition occurs at the active site. Here the structure of the inhibitor
(I) closely resembles with that of the substrate (S).
 It may, thus, combine with the enzyme (E), forming an enzyme-inhibitor (EI) complex
rather than an ES complex. the inhibitor, thus, competes with the substrate to
combine with the enzyme.
 The degree of inhibition depends upon the relative concentrations of the substrate
and the inhibitor.
 Thus, by increasing the substrate concentration and keeping the inhibitor
concentration constant, the amount of inhibition decreases and conversely a decrease
In substrate concentration results in an increased inhibition. It may, however, be
noted that in competitive inhibition, the enzyme can bind substrate (forming an ES
complex) or inhibitor (EI), but not both (ESI).
 Thus, we see that a competitive inhibitor diminishes the rate of the reaction by
reducing the proportion of the enzyme molecules bound to a substrate.
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7. Fig:- Competitive or substrate analogue inhibition
 Example of competitive inhibition:
An enzyme, succinic acid dehydrogenase (= succinodehydrogenase) catalyzes the
conversion of succinic acid to fumaric acid. Many organic compounds, which are
structurally related to succinic acid, combine with the enzyme, thus inhibiting the
reaction.
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8. B. Noncompetitive inhibition.
 Here no competition occurs between the substrate, S and the inhibitor.
The inhibitor has little or no structural resemblance with the substrate and it binds with
the enzyme at a place other than the active site (i.e., at the allosteric site).
 Since I and S may combine at different sites, formation of both EI and ESI complexes
takes place.
 Both ES and ESI may break down to produce the reaction product (P). It may, however,
be noted that in noncompetitive inhibition, the inhibitor and substrate can bind
simultaneously to an enzyme molecule since their binding sites are different and hence
do not overlap.
 The enzyme is inactivated when inhibitor is bound, whether or not substrate is also
present.
 Thus, it is apparent that a noncompetitive inhibitor acts by lowering the turnover
number rather than by decreasing the proportion of enzyme molecules that are bound to
the substrate. Noncompetitive inhibition, in contrast to competitive inhibition, cannot be
overcome by increasing substrate concentration.
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9. Fig:- Non competitive inhibition
 Example:-
Various heavy metals ions (Ag+, Hg2+, Pb2+) inhibit the activity of a variety of
enzymes. Urease, for example, is highly sensitive to any of these ions in traces. Heavy
metals form mercaptides with sulfhydryl (-SH) groups of enzymes :
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10. C. Uncompetitive inhibition
 An uncompetitive inhibitor also binds at an allosteric site (like the noncompetitive
inhibitors) but the binding takes place only with the enzyme-substrate (ES) complex, and
not the free enzyme molecule.
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11. Irreversible Enzyme Inhibition
 Although irreversible inhibition was once categorized and tested as noncompetitive
inhibition, it is now recognized as a distinct type of inhibition.
 Irreversible inhibitors are those that combine with or destroy a functional group on the
enzyme that is essential for its activity.
 In fact, an irreversible inhibitor dissociates very slowly from its target enzyme because it
becomes very tightly bound to its active site, thus inactivating the enzyme molecule.
 The bonding between the inhibitor and enzyme may be covalent or noncovalent.
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12. Example
 Alkylating reagents, such as iodoacetamide, irreversibly inhibit the catalytic
activity of some enzymes by modifying cysteine and other side chains. Iodoacetamide
is a widely-used agent for the detection of sulfhydryl group.
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13. Activation Energy
 In all reactions there is an energy barrier that has to be overcome in order for the
reaction to proceed.
 This is the energy needed to transform the substrate molecules into the transition
state an unstable chemical form part-way between the substrates and the products.
 The transition state has the highest free energy of any component in the reaction
pathway.
 The Gibbs free energy of activation (ΔG‡) is equal to the difference in free energy
between the transition state and the substrate.
 An enzyme works by stabilizing the transition state of a chemical reaction and
decreasing ΔG‡ .
 The enzyme does not alter the energy levels of the substrates or the products.
 Thus an enzyme increases the rate at which the reaction occurs, but has no effect on
the overall change in energy of the reaction.
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14. Free energy
 The change in Gibbs free energy (ΔG) dictates whether a reaction will be
energetically favorable or not.
 It should be noted that ΔG is unrelated to ΔG‡. The ΔG of a reaction is independent of
the path of the reaction, and it provides no information about the rate of a reaction
since the rate of the reaction is governed by ΔG‡.
 A negative ΔG indicates that the reaction is thermodynamically favorable in the
direction indicated (i.e. that it is likely to occur without an input of energy), whereas a
positive ΔG indicates that the reaction is not thermodynamically favorable and
requires an input of energy to proceed in the direction indicated.
 In biochemical systems, this input of energy is often achieved by coupling the
energetically unfavorable reaction with a more energetically favorable one (coupled
reactions).
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15.  It is often convenient to refer to ΔG under a standard set of conditions, defined as when
the substrates and products of a reaction are all present at concentrations of 1.0 M and
the reaction is taking place at a constant pH of 7.0.
 Under these conditions a slightly different value for ΔG is found, and this is called ΔG0’.
 An example of an energetically favorable reaction which has a large negative ΔG and is
commonly used to drive less energetically favorable reactions is the hydrolysis of
adenosine triphosphate to form adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and free inorganic
phosphate (Pi).
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16. Fig:
Free energy diagram for a simple chemical
reaction, S P
Fig:
Energy diagram, comparing the
nonenzymatic and enzymatic reactions,
S → P
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17. Enzymes Kinetics
Enzyme velocity:
 The rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is often called its velocity.
 Enzyme velocities are normally reported as values at time zero (initial velocity, symbol
V0; μmol min1), since the rate is fastest at the point where no product is yet present.
 This is because the substrate concentration is greatest before any substrate has been
transformed to product, because enzymes may be subject to feedback inhibition by
their own products and/or because with a reversible reaction the products will fuel
the reverse reaction.
 Experimentally V0 is measured before more than approximately 10% of the substrate
has been converted to product in order to minimize such complicating factors.
 A typical plot of product formed against time for an enzyme-catalyzed reaction
shows an
initial period of rapid product formation which gives the linear portion of the plot.
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18.  This is followed by a slowing down of the enzyme rate as substrate is used upand/or as
the enzyme loses activity.
 V0 is obtained by drawing a straight line through the linear part of the curve, starting
at the zero time-point. The slope of this straight line is equal to V0.
Enzyme units
 Enzyme activity may be expressed in a number of ways. The commonest is by the
initial rate (V0) of the reaction being catalyzed (e.g. μmol of substrate transformed
per minute; μmol min1).
 There are also two standard units of enzyme activity, the enzyme unit (U) and the
katal (kat). An enzyme unit is that amount of enzyme which will catalyze the
transformation of 1 μmol of substrate per minute at 25C under optimal conditions
for that enzyme.
 The katal is the accepted SI unit of enzyme activity and is defined as that catalytic
activity which will raise the rate of a reaction by one mole per second in a specified
system.
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19.  The term activity (or total activity) refers to the total units of enzyme in the sample,
whereas the specific activity is the number of enzyme units per milligram of protein
(units mg1).
 The specific activity is a measure of the purity of an enzyme; during the purification
of the enzyme its specific activity increases and becomes maximal and constant when
the enzyme is pure.
substrate concentration :
 The normal pattern of dependence of enzyme rate on substrate concentration
([S]) is that at low substrate concentrations a doubling of [S] will lead to a doubling of
the initial velocity (V0).
 However, at higher substrate concentrations the enzyme becomes saturated, and
further increases in [S] lead to very small changes in V0.
 This occurs because at saturating substrate concentrations effectively all of the
enzyme molecules have bound substrate.
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20.  The overall enzyme rate is now dependent on the rate at which the product can
dissociate from the enzyme, and adding further substrate will not affect this.
 The shape of the resulting graph when V0 is plotted against [S] is called a hyperbolic
Curve.
Enzyme concentration:
 In situations where the substrate concentration is saturating (i.e. all the enzyme
molecules are bound to substrate), a doubling of the enzyme concentration
will lead to a doubling of V0.
 This gives a straight line graph when V0 is plotted against enzyme concentration.
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21. Temperature:
 Temperature affects the rate of enzyme-catalyzed reactions in two ways.
First, a rise in temperature increases the thermal energy of the substrate molecules.
This raises the proportion of substrate molecules with sufficient energy to overcome
the Gibbs free energy of activation, and hence increases the rate of the reaction.
 However, a second effect comes into play at higher temperatures.
Increasing the thermal energy of the molecules which make up the protein structure
of the enzyme itself will increase the chances of breaking the multiple weak,
noncovalent interactions (hydrogen bonds, van der Waals forces, etc.) which hold the
three-dimensional structure of the enzyme together.
 Ultimately this will lead to the denaturation (unfolding) of the enzyme, but even
small changes in the three-dimensional shape of the enzyme can alter the structure of
the active site and lead to a decrease in catalytic activity.
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22.  The overall effect of a rise in temperature on the reaction rate of the enzyme is a
balance between these two opposing effects.
 A graph of temperature plotted against V0 will therefore show a curve, with a well-
defined temperature optimum.
 For many mammalian enzymes this is around 37oc, but there are also organisms
which have enzymes adapted to working at considerably higher or lower
temperatures.
Cont…
Fig:
Effect of temperature.
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23. pH:
 Each enzyme has an optimum pH at which the rate of the reaction that it
catalyzes is at its maximum.
 Small deviations in pH from the optimum value lead to decreased activity due to
changes in the ionization of groups at the active site of the enzyme.
 Larger deviations in pH lead to the denaturation of the enzyme protein itself,
due to interference with the many weak noncovalent bonds maintaining its
three-dimensional structure.
 A graph of V0 plotted against pH will usually give a bell shaped curve.
 Many enzymes have a pH optimum of around 6.8, but there is great diversity in the pH
optima of enzymes, due to the different environments in which they are adapted to
work.
 For example, the digestive enzyme pepsin is adapted to work at the acidic pH
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24. Michaelis–Menten model
The Michaelis–Menten model uses the following concept of enzyme catalysis:
 The enzyme (E), combines with its substrate (S) to form an enzyme–substrate
complex (ES).
 The ES complex can dissociate again to form E+ S, or can proceed chemically to form E
and the product P.
 The rate constants k1, k2 and k3 describe the rates associated with each step of the
catalytic process.
 It is assumed that there is no significant rate for the backward reaction of enzyme and
product (E+P) being converted to ES complex.
 [ES] remains approximately constant until nearly all the substrate is used, hence the
rate of synthesis of ES equals its rate of consumption over most of the course of the
reaction; that is, [ES] maintains a steady state.
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25. The effect of (a) temperature and (b) pH on enzyme activity.
 From the observation of the properties of many enzymes it was known that the
initial velocity (V0) at low substrate concentrations is directly proportional to
[S], while at high substrate concentrations the velocity tends towards a
maximum value, that is the rate becomes independent of [S].
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26.  This maximum velocity is called Vmax (μmol min1).
 The initial velocity (V0) is the velocity measured experimentally before more than
approximately 10% of the substrate has been converted to product in order to
minimize such complicating factors as the effects of reversible reactions, inhibition of
the enzyme by product, and progressive inactivation of the enzyme.
Fig:
The relationship between substrate
concentration [S] and initial reaction velocity
(V0 ).
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27.  The equation describes a hyperbolic curve of the type shown for the experimental
data.
 In deriving the equation, Michaelis and Menten defined a new constant, Km, the
Michaelis constant [units: Molar (i.e. per mole), M]:
 Km is a measure of the stability of the ES complex, being equal to the sum of the rates
of breakdown of ES over its rate of formation. For many enzymes k2 is much greater
than k3.
 Under these circumstances Km becomes a measure of the affinity of an enzyme for
its substrate since its value depends on the relative values of k1 and k2 for ES
formation and dissociation, respectively.
 A high Km indicates weak substrate binding (k2 predominant over k1), a low Km I
indicates strong substrate binding (k1 predominant over k2).
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28. Lineweaver Burk Plot
 Km can be determined experimentally by the fact that its value is equivalent to the
substrate concentration at which the velocity is equal to half of Vmax.
 Because Vmax is achieved at infinite substrate concentration, it is impossible to
estimate Vmax (and hence Km) from a hyperbolic plot.
 However, Vmax and Km can be determined experimentally by measuring V0 at
different substrate concentrations.
 Then a double reciprocal or Lineweaver–Burk plot of 1/V0 against 1/[S] is made
This plot is a derivation of the Michaelis–Menten equation:
 which gives a straight line, with the intercept on the y-axis equal to 1/Vmax, and
the intercept on the x-axis equal to 1/Km.
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29.  The slope of the line is equal to Km/Vmax .
 The Lineweaver–Burk plot is also a useful way of determining how an inhibitor binds
to an enzyme.
 Although the Michaelis–Menten model provides a very good model of the
experimental data for many enzymes, a few enzymes do not confirm to Michaelis-
Menten kinetics.
 These enzymes, such as aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase), are called allosteric
enzymes.
Fig:
The relationship between
substrate concentration [S]
and initial reaction velocity
(V0 ).
(a) A direct plot,
(b) a Lineweaver–Burk
double-reciprocal plot.
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30. Multienzyme complex
 Defination:-
A multienzyme complex in which a series of chemical intermediates remain bound to
the enzyme molecules as a substrate is transformed into the final product.
 Five cofactors, four derived from vitamins, participate in the reaction mechanism.
 The regulation of this enzyme complex also illustrates how a combination of covalent
modification and allosteric regulation results in precisely regulated flux through a
metabolic step.
Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex
 From Escherichia coli is a large multienzyme cluster (MW = 48,00,000 ; Pigheart
has MW = 1,00,00,000) consisting of pyruvate dehydrogenase or pyruvate
decarboxylase (E1), dihydrolipoyl transacetylase (E2) and dihydrolipoyl
dehydrogenase (E3) and 5 coenzymes viz., thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), lipoic acid
(LA), flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), coenzyme A (CoA) and nicotinamide adenine
dinucleotide (NAD+).
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31.  Four different vitamins required in human diet are vital components of this complex
enzyme.
 These are thiamine (in TPP), riboflavin (in FAD), pantothenic acid (in CoA) and
nicotinamide (in NAD+).
 Lipoic acid, however, is an essential vitamin or growth factor for many
microorganisms but not so for higher animals, where it can be made from readily
available precursors.
Fig:
Space-filling model of the pyruvate
dehydrogenase complex
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33. α-Ketoglutarate dehydrogenase
 A large multienzyme cluster consisting of 3 enzyme components, e.g: α-ketoglutarate
dehydrogenase or α-ketoglutarate decarboxylase (12 moles per mole of the complex),
transsuccinylase (24 moles) and dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (12 moles).
 The complex also requires the same 5 coenzymes, as required by pyruvate
dehydrogenase complex, for activity, e.g: thiamine pyrophosphate (6 moles),lipoic and
(6 moles), flavine adenine dinucleotide (8 moles), coenzyme A and nicotinamide
adenine dinucleotide.
 The compelx enzyme molecule is comparable in size to ribosomes.
 The transsuccinylase (B′) component, like the transacetylase of PDC, forms the ‘core’ of
the multienzyme complex while the α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (A′) and
dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (C′) components are arranged on the periphery.
 Again, A′ binds to B′ and B′ binds to C′ but A′ does not bind directly to C′ .
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34.  The α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (A′) and transsuccinylase (B′) components are
different from the corresponding components (A and B) in the pyruvate dehydrogenase
complex.
 However, the dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase components (C and C′) of the two enzyme
complexes are similar.
 Lipoic acid is attached to the core transsuccinylase by forming an amide bond with
lysine side chains.
 This places the reactive disulfide groups (—S—S—) at the end of a long flexible chain.
 The ability of the chain to swing the disulfide group in contact with the different
proteins is an important feature of the enzyme complex.
 As in the case of pyruvate oxidation, arsenite inhibits the reaction, causing the
substrate α-ketoglutarate to accumulate.
 The α-KDC is inhibited by both succinyl-CoA and NADH, the former being more
effective.
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36. Fatty Acid synthase complex
 The core of the E. coli fatty acid synthase system consists of seven separate
polypeptides , and at least three others act at some stage of the process.
 The proteins act together to catalyze the formation of fatty acids from acetyl-CoA and
malonyl-CoA.
 Throughout the process, the intermediates remain covalently attached as thioesters
to one of two thiol groups of the synthase complex.
 One point of attachment is the OSH group of a Cys residue in one of the seven
synthase proteins (β-ketoacyl-ACP synthase); the other is the OSH group of acyl
carrier protein.
 Acyl carrier protein (ACP) of E. coli is a small protein (Mr 8,860) containing the
prosthetic group 4-phosphopantetheine.
 Hydrolysis of thioesters is highly exergonic, and the energy released helps to make
two different steps in fatty acid synthesis (condensation) thermodynamically
favorable.
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37.  The 4-phosphopante-theine prosthetic group of ACP is believed to serve as a flexible
arm,tethering the growing fatty acyl chain to the surface of the fatty acid synthase
complex while carrying the reaction intermediates from one enzyme active site to the
next.
Proteins of the Fatty Acid Synthase Complex of E.
coli
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39. Tryptophan synthase
 Tryptophan synthase or tryptophan synthetase is an enzyme that catalyzes the
final two steps in the biosynthesis of tryptophan.
 It is commonly found in Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, and Plantae.
 However, it is absent from animalia. It is typically found as an α2β2 tetramer. The α
subunits catalyze the reversible formation of insole and glyceraldehyde-3-
phosphate (G3P) from indole-3-glycerol phosphate (IGP).
 The β subunits catalyze the irreversible condensation of indole and serine to form
tryptophan in a pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) dependent reaction.
 Each α active site is connected to a β active site by a 25 angstrom long hydrophobic
channel contained within the enzyme.
 This facilitates the diffusion of indole formed at α active sites directly to β active
sites in a process known as substrate channeling.
 The active sites of tryptophan synthase are allosterically coupled.
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40. Enzyme Structure:-
 Tryptophan synthase typically exists as an α-ββ-α complex.
 The α and β subunits have molecular masses of 27 and 43 kDa respectively
The α subunit has a TIM barrel conformation.
 The β subunit has a fold type II conformation and a binding site adjacent to the
active site for monovalent cations.
 Their assembly into a complex leads to structural changes in both subunits
resulting in reciprocal activation.
 There are two main mechanisms for intersubunit communication.
 First, the COMM domain of the β-subunit and the α-loop2 of the α-subunit
interact. Additionally, there are interactions between the αGly181 and βSer178
residues.
 The active sites are regulated allosterically and undergo transitions between
open, inactive, and closed, active, states.
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41. Mechanism of Tryptophan Synthase
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