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  • Title: Complex competitive and non-competitive inhibition of rat lung angiotensin-converting enzyme by inhibitors containing thiol groups: captopril and SA 446.
    Author: Mendelsohn FA, Csicsmann J, Hutchinson JS.
    Journal: Clin Sci (Lond); 1981 Dec; 61 Suppl 7():277s-280s. PubMed ID: 6172236.
    Abstract:
    1. The kinetics of the inhibitory action of four different angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors was evaluated in vitro with rat lung enzyme and the substrate hippuryl-histidyl-leucine. 2. Enzyme velocity against substrate concentration curves were fitted squares to hyperbolae by a weighted least squares iterative method to obtain apparent values of Km, Vmax. and K/V at each concentration of inhibitor. 3. The inhibitory constants Ki and Ki' were obtained by weighted linear regressions of K/V against i and 1/V against i respectively. 4. Teprotide was the least potent inhibitor with a Ki of near 20 nmol/l whereas captopril (SQ 14 225) and SA 446 were both approximately 10 times and MK 421 approximately 20 times more potent. 5. Two inhibitors which lacked thiol groups [teprotide or SQ 20 881 and N-(1-S-1-carboxy-3-phenylpropyl)-L-Ala-L-Pro or MK 421] produced a purely competitive pattern of inhibition with increased apparent Km but no change in apparent Vmax.. 6. Two inhibitors containing thiol groups [captopril or SQ 14 225 and 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(3-mercaptopropanoyl)-4-thiazolidine carboxylic acid or SA 446] both produced a mixed competitive and non-competitive pattern of inhibition with increased apparent Km and decreased Vmax.. 7. It is possible that thiol-containing inhibitors might produce non-competitive inhibition of converting enzyme by forming strong bonds with zinc near the active site of the enzyme.
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