title: beta-deuterium kinetic isotope effects in the purine nucleoside phosphorylase reaction.
abstract: 1. [2'-2H]Inosine was made from inosine by tetraisopropyldisiloxanyl protection of the 3'- and 5'-positions, oxidation with dimethyl sulphoxide and acetic anhydride, immediate NaB2H4 reduction of the oxo sugar product and inversion at C-2' of the resultant protected [2'-2H]arabino-inosine by trifluoromethanesulphonylation and reaction with caesium propionate, followed by deprotection. 2. The equilibrium-perturbation technique was used to measure beta 2H(V/K) for phosphorolysis of this compound by the purine nucleoside phosphorylase of Escherichia coli as a function of pH. 3. The pH variation indicates an intrinsic effect of 1.068 masked by isotopically silent steps near the pH optimum. 4. The similar pH variation of these beta-deuterium effects and the alpha-deuterium effects measured previously [Stein & Cordes (1981) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 767-772; Lehikoinen, Sinnott & Krenitsky (1989) Biochem. J. 257, 355-359] for this reaction provides the first experimental reassurance for the common assumption that pH changes merely mask and unmask the chemical steps in an enzyme-catalysed reaction, and do not detectably alter transition-state structure. 5. The dihedral angle between the C-H-2' bond and the electron-deficient p-orbital at the transition state is in the range 32-48 degrees, in accord with an essentially planar furanose ring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680.
authors.forename: X M
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ashwell
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Sinnott
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Krenitsky
mesh_terms: D003903:Deuterium / Q000737:chemistry*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007288:Inosine / Q000737:chemistry; D007554:Isotopes; D007700:Kinetics; D011683:Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase / Q000737:chemistry*; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D007554:Isotopes; D007288:Inosine; D003903:Deuterium; D011683:Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase