title: A comparison of the mechanisms of CO2 hydration by native and Co2+-substituted carbonic anhydrase II.
abstract: We have measured the pH dependence of kcat and kcat/Km for CO2 hydration catalyzed by both native Zn2+-and metallo-substituted Co2+-bovine carbonic anhydrase II in the absence of inhibitory ions. For the Zn2+-enzyme, the pKa values controlling kcat and kcat/Km profiles are similar, but for the Co2+-enzyme the values are about 0.6 pH units apart. Computer simulations of a metal-hydroxide mechanism of carbonic anhydrase suggest that the data for both native and Co2+-carbonic anhydrase can be accounted for by the same mechanism of action, if we postulate that the substitution of Co2+ for Zn2+ in the active site causes a separation of about 0.6 pH units in the pKa values of His-64 and the metal-bound water molecule. We have also measured the activation parameters for kcat and kcat/Km for Co2+-substituted carbonic anhydrase II-catalyzed CO2 hydration and have compared these values to those obtained previously for the native Zn2+-enzyme. For kcat and kcat/Km we obtain an enthalpy of activation of 4.4 +/- 0.6 and approximately 0 kcal mol-1, respectively. The corresponding entropies of activation are -18 +/- 2 and -27 +/- 2 cal mol-1 K-1.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D003035:Cobalt / Q000378:metabolism*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008433:Mathematics; D013696:Temperature; D015032:Zinc / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D003035:Cobalt; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases; D015032:Zinc