Kinetic Studies on the Mechanism of the Penicillin Amidase-Catalysed Synthesis of Ampicillin and Benzylpenicillin
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Hoppe-Seyler´s Zeitschrift Für Physiologische Chemie
- Vol. 365 (2), 1435-1444
- https://doi.org/10.1515/bchm2.1984.365.2.1435
Abstract
Hydrophobic protein chromatography was used to prepare homogeneous fractions of penicillin amidase (EC 3.5.1.11) from Escherichia coli. The apparent ratios of the rate constants for the deacylation of the acyl-penicillin amidase formed in the hydrolysis of phenylacetylglycine or D-phenylglycine methyl ester, by H2O and 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA), were determined at different concentrations of the latter compound. The ratios were obtained from direct measurements of the initial rates of formation of phenylacetic acid and benzylpenicillin or D-phenylglycine and ampicillin. For the semisynthesis of ampicillin as well as of benzylpenicillin the ratio was found to depend on the concentration of 6-APA. This was observed for heterogeneous and homogeneous enzyme preparations. These results show that 6-APA must be bound to the acyl-enzyme before the deacylation, yielding ampicillin and benzylpenicillin, occurs. The dissociation constant KN for the formation of the complex was estimated to be .apprx. 10 mM. This mechanism in which acyl-enzyme with and without bound nucleophile is involved, is in agreement with the principle of microscopic reversibility. Both acyl-enzymes can be deacylated by H2O. The finding that there is a specific binding site for 6-APA adjacent to the binding site for the phenylacetyl-(D-phenylglycyl-) group in the active site of the enzyme is supported by the observation that 6-APA acts as a mixed inhibitor in the hydrolysis of D-phenylglycine methyl ester. The ionic strength dependence indicates that the binding site for 6-APA of the acyl-enzyme is positively charged.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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