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  • Title: Hydrolysis of peptides by carboxypeptidase A: equilibrium trapping of the ES2 intermediate.
    Author: Geoghegan KF, Galdes A, Hanson G, Holmquist B, Auld DS, Vallee BL.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1986 Aug 12; 25(16):4669-74. PubMed ID: 3021197.
    Abstract:
    The cobalt absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of cobalt carboxypeptidase undergo unique variations on formation of catalytic peptide and ester intermediates as previously recorded in cryoenzymologic experiments employing rapid-scanning spectroscopy and cryotrapping [Geoghegan, K. F., Galdes, A., Martinelli, R. A., Holmquist, B., Auld, D.S., & Vallee, B. L. (1983) Biochemistry 22, 2255-2262]. We here describe a means of stabilizing these intermediates, which we have termed "equilibrium trapping". It allows peptide intermediates to be observed for longer periods (much greater than 1 min) at ambient as well as subzero temperatures. The reaction intermediate with the rapidly turned over peptide substrate Dns-Ala-Ala-Phe is trapped when the cobalt enzyme (greater than 10 microM) has catalyzed the attainment of chemical equilibrium between high concentrations of the hydrolysis products Dns-Ala-Ala, 10 mM, and L-phenylalanine, 50 mM, and the product of their coupling Dns-Ala-Ala-Phe. Under these conditions, Dns-Ala-Ala-Phe is present in the equilibrated substrate-product reaction mixture at a level that exceeds the one predicted on the basis of K'eq for hydrolysis of this substrate and is close to the enzyme concentration. Other pairs of peptide hydrolysis products yield similar results. Visible absorption and EPR spectra of the cobalt enzyme show that the synthesized peptide binds to the active site in the mode previously recognized as the ES2 catalytic intermediate in peptide hydrolysis. Equilibrium trapping of the ES2 intermediate allows analysis of its physicochemical properties by methods that could not be employed readily under cryoenzymological conditions, e.g., circular dichroic and magnetic circular dichroic spectra.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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