Ueber Triamminchromisalze, ein Beitrag zur Chemie der Hydrate, V. Mittheilung in der Serie: Zur Kenntniss der Verbindungen des Chroms

Investigation of substrate specificity of creatine kinase using chromium(III) and cobalt(III) complexes of adenosine 5'-diphosphate

The specificity for substrate binding to creatine kinase for metal-nucleotide complexes of the type Cr-(H2O)4-n(NH3)nADP (where n = 0, 3, or 4) and Co-(H2O)4-m(NH3)mADP (for m = 3 or 4) has been investigated over the pH range 5.5-7.8 with the delta-alpha, beta-bidentate diastereoisomers. These inert nucleotide complexes acted as competitive inhibitors vs. MgADP over this range. In addition, the pH dependence of the V, V/K, and Km values for MgADP has been determined. Metal-nucleotide binding to the enzyme is strongest below an approximate pK of 6.45 but again becomes pH independent above pH 7. This pK is not associated with the metal-nucleotide complex. Instead, we conclude that the pK of the acid-base catalyst (thought to be histidine) is about 6.45 in the absence of nucleotide but is raised to 7.2 in its presence. This perturbation of the pK may result from a protein conformational change that allows a hydrogen bond to form between the phosphorylated nitrogen of phosphocreatine and the acid-base catalyst. The pK of the water in Cr(H2O)(NH3)3ADP has been determined to be 6.6, and by comparison of the binding affinity of this complex with that of Cr(NH3)4ADP or Cr(H2O)4ADP, it can be deduced that the hydroxo species binds more strongly than the aquo complex. In general, chromium nucleotides are bound more strongly than cobalt complexes, and binding affinity increases as water replaces ammonia in the first coordination sphere of the metal. Both trends are a result of stronger hydrogen-bond interactions between the metal complex and protein.

Yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase substrate recognition

Monodentate Co(NH3)5PPi was determined not to be a substrate for yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase while P1,P2-bidentate Co(NH3)4PPi was turned over by the enzyme at a rate of 7.5 min-1. A kinetic analysis of the substrate activities of the P1,P2-bidentate complexes, Co(en)2PPi, Cr(NH3)4PPi, Cr(H2O)(NH3)3PPi, and Cr(H2O)2(NH3)2PPi, and Cr(H2O)4PPi was carried out in order to access the potential role of the metal-water ligands in productive binding. While substitution of the H2O ligands with NH3 ligands had a minimal affect on the Km for Mg2+, the binding affinity of the complexes decreased with an increasing NH3/H2O ligand ratio as did the turnover number of the corresponding central complexes. The Co(en)2PPi complex was hydrolyzed at a rate approximately 0.6% of that for the Co(NH3)4PPi complex. The substrate activities of beta, gamma-bidentate Co(NH3)4PPPi and alpha, beta, gamma-tridentate Co(NH3)3PPP with pyrophosphatase were also tested. While both complexes were shown to bind tightly to the Mg2+-activated enzyme neither was hydrolyzed. On the other hand, in the presence of the Zn2+-activated enzyme the tridentate complex was turned over at a rate of 0.17 min-1 while the bidentate complex remained inert to hydrolysis.