title: Large kinetic isotope effects in enzymatic proton transfer and the role of substrate oscillations.
abstract: We propose an interpretation of the experimental findings of Klinman and coworkers [Cha, Y., Murray, C. J. & Klinman, J. P. (1989) Science 243, 1325-1330; Grant, K. L. & Klinman, J. P. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 6597-6605; and Bahnson, B. J. & Klinman, J. P. (1995) Methods Enzymol. 249, 373-397], who showed that proton transfer reactions that are catalyzed by bovine serum amine oxidase proceed through tunneling. We show that two different tunneling models are consistent with the experiments. In the first model, the proton tunnels from the ground state. The temperature dependence of the kinetic isotope effect is caused by a thermally excited substrate mode that modulates the barrier, as has been suggested by Borgis and Hynes [Borgis, D. & Hynes, J. T. (1991) J. Chem. Phys. 94, 3619-3628]. In the second model, there is both over-the-barrier transfer and tunneling from excited states. Finally, we propose two experiments that can distinguish between the possible mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Antoniou
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D006631:Amine Oxidase (Copper-Containing); D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D000587:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D011522:Protons; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D011522:Protons; D006631:Amine Oxidase (Copper-Containing); D000587:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors