title: Probing the role of dynamics in hydride transfer catalyzed by lactate dehydrogenase.
abstract: The dynamic nature of the interconversion of pyruvate to lactate as catalyzed by lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is characterized by laser-induced temperature jump relaxation spectroscopy with a resolution of 20 ns. An equilibrium system of LDH.NADH plus pyruvate and LDH.NAD+ plus lactate is perturbed by a sudden T-jump, and the relaxation of the system is monitored by NADH emission and absorption changes. The substrate binding pathway is observed to be similar, although not identical, to previous work on substrate mimics: an encounter complex is formed between LDH.NADH and pyruvate, which collapses to the active Michaelis complex. The previously unresolved hydride transfer event is characterized and separated from other unimolecular isomerizations of the protein important for the catalytic mechanism, such as loop closure, a slower step, and faster events on the nanosecond-microsecond timescales whose structural basis is not understood. The results of this study show that this approach can be applied quite generally to enzyme systems and report on the dynamic nature of proteins over a very wide time range.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
authors.forename: Nickolay
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhadin
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gulotta
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Callender
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D007700:Kinetics; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009243:NAD / Q000737:chemistry*; D019289:Pyruvic Acid / Q000138:chemical synthesis*
chemical_list: D009243:NAD; D019344:Lactic Acid; D019289:Pyruvic Acid; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase