title: Catalytically important ionizations along the reaction pathway of yeast pyrophosphatase.
abstract: Five catalytic functions of yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase were measured over wide pH ranges: steady-state PP(i) hydrolysis (pH 4. 8-10) and synthesis (6.3-9.3), phosphate-water oxygen exchange (pH 4. 8-9.3), equilibrium formation of enzyme-bound PP(i) (pH 4.8-9.3), and Mg(2+) binding (pH 5.5-9.3). These data confirmed that enzyme-PP(i) intermediate undergoes isomerization in the reaction cycle and allowed estimation of the microscopic rate constant for chemical bond breakage and the macroscopic rate constant for PP(i) release. The isomerization was found to decrease the pK(a) of the essential group in the enzyme-PP(i) intermediate, presumably nucleophilic water, from >7 to 5.85. Protonation of the isomerized enzyme-PP(i) intermediate decelerates PP(i) hydrolysis but accelerates PP(i) release by affecting the back isomerization. The binding of two Mg(2+) ions to free enzyme requires about five basic groups with a mean pK(a) of 6.3. An acidic group with a pK(a) approximately 9 is modulatory in PP(i) hydrolysis and metal ion binding, suggesting that this group maintains overall enzyme structure rather than being directly involved in catalysis.
authors.affiliation: A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology and School of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Belogurov
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Fabrichniy
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pohjanjoki
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Kasho
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lehtihuhta
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Turkina
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Cooperman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Baykov
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lahti
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D002021:Buffers; D002384:Catalysis; D002413:Cations, Divalent / Q000737:chemistry; D003902:Detergents / Q000737:chemistry; D011756:Diphosphates / Q000737:chemistry; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D006868:Hydrolysis; D043564:Inorganic Pyrophosphatase; D007700:Kinetics; D008274:Magnesium / Q000737:chemistry; D011755:Pyrophosphatases / Q000737:chemistry*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D002021:Buffers; D002413:Cations, Divalent; D003902:Detergents; D011756:Diphosphates; D011755:Pyrophosphatases; D043564:Inorganic Pyrophosphatase; D008274:Magnesium