The enhancement of electrostriction caused by lowering the solvent dielectric constant leads to the decrease of activation energy in trypsin catalysis
- Authors
- Park, H; Chi, YM
- Issue Date
- 7-11월-2001
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- tetrahedral transition state; electrostriction; high-pressure kinetics; dielectric constant; trypsin; activation volume
- Citation
- BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS, v.1568, no.1, pp.53 - 59
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS
- Volume
- 1568
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 53
- End Page
- 59
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/123626
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0304-4165(01)00199-4
- ISSN
- 0304-4165
- Abstract
- The contribution of electrostriction of the solvent to the stabilization of the negatively charged tetrahedral transition state of a trypsin-catalyzed reaction was probed by means of kinetic studies involving high-pressure and solvent dielectric constant. A good correlation was observed between the increased catalytic efficiency of trypsin and the decreased solvent dielectric constant. When the dielectric constant of the solvents was lowered by 4.68 units, the loss of activation energy and that of free energy of activation were 2.26 kJ/mol and 3.09 kJ/mol, respectively. The activation volume for k(cat) decreased significantly as the dielectric constant of the solvent decreased, indicating that the degree of electrostriction of the solvent around the charged tetrahedral transition state has been enhanced. These observations demonstrate that the increase in the catalytic efficiency of the trypsin reaction with decreasing dielectric constant resulted from the stabilization of electrostatic energy for the formation of an oxyanion hole, and this stabilization was caused by the increase of electrostricted. water around the charged tetrahedral transition state. Therefore, we conclude that control of the solvent dielectric constant can stabilize the tetrahedral transition state, and this lowers the activation energy. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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