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Unraveling Entropic Rate Acceleration Induced by Solvent Dynamics in Membrane Enzymes
Published on: January 16, 2016
Linear and non-linear pressure dependence of enzyme catalytic parameters
1Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Département de Toxicologie, Unité d'Enzymologie, BP. 87, 38702 La Tronche cédex, France. pmasson@unmc.edu
Abstract:
The pressure dependence of enzyme catalytic parameters allows volume changes associated with substrate binding and activation volumes for the chemical steps to be determined. Because catalytic constants are composite parameters, elementary volume change contributions can be calculated from the pressure differentiation of kinetic constants. Linear and non-linear pressure-dependence of single-step enzyme reactions and steady-state catalytic parameters can be observed. Non-linearity can be interpreted either in terms of interdependence between the pressure and other environmental parameters (i.e., temperature, solvent composition, pH), pressure-induced enzyme unfolding, compressibility changes and pressure-induced rate limiting changes. These different situations are illustrated with several examples.
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