title: Mechanistic implications of the pH independence of inhibition of phosphoglucose isomerase by neutral sugar phosphates.
abstract: In contrast to the strongly pH-dependent inhibition of phosphoglucose isomerase by substrate analogues with a free carboxyl group, inhibition of this enzyme by neutral sugar phosphates is essentially invariant between pH 7 and 9. Competitive inhibition constants for glucitol 6-phosphate (40 muM), arabinose 5-phosphate (50 muM), and erythritol 4-phosphate (100 muM) were found to be of the same order of magnitude as that reported previously for substrate binding constants (50 to 240 muM). The unique exception is erythrose 4-phosphate whose Ki (0.7 muM, independent of pH) reflects a tightness of binding similar to that found at pH values near or below neutrality for the transition state analogue 5-phosphorarabinonate. The pH independence of inhibition by erythrose 4-phosphate and other neutral sugar phosphates may reflect a mode and locus of binding to phosphoglucose isomerase different from that of the aldonate inhibitors.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005956:Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D011817:Rabbits; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013403:Sugar Phosphates / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D013403:Sugar Phosphates; D005956:Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase