title: The sulphatase of ox liver. XXV. Sulphatase A as a hysteretic enzyme.
abstract: The kinetic behaviour of the system native--substrate-modified sulphatase A (arylsulphate sulphohydrolase, EC 3.1.6.1) has been investigated and it has been shown that the progress curve of the complete reaction, including both the inactivation and reactivation stages, can be treated as that of a simple hysteretic system in which the substrate-modified enzyme is activated by a product of the reaction. It has been concluded that the early suggestions that the modification of sulphatase A was accompanied by the exposure of a second ligand-binding site are incorrect. It has been shown that, in the absence of sulphate, the rate of reversion of substrate-modified to native sulphatase A is increased by 4-nitrocatechol but not by the same concentration of 2-nitrophenol. A detailed reaction sequence is proposed. This explains the kinetic behaviour of sulphatase A with nitrocatechol sulphate or 2-nitrophenyl sulphate as substrate and in the presence or absence of sulphate.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D002553:Cerebroside-Sulfatase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D010710:Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D013429:Sulfatases / Q000378:metabolism*; D013431:Sulfates / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010710:Phosphates; D013431:Sulfates; D013429:Sulfatases; D002553:Cerebroside-Sulfatase