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. 1992 Nov 1;287(Pt 3):881–889. doi: 10.1042/bj2870881

Evaluation of hydrogen-bonding and enantiomeric P2-S2 hydrophobic contacts in dynamic aspects of molecular recognition by papain.

M Patel 1, I S Kayani 1, W Templeton 1, G W Mellor 1, E W Thomas 1, K Brocklehurst 1
PMCID: PMC1133089  PMID: 1445247

Abstract

1. 2-(N'-Acetyl-D-phenylalanyl)hydroxyethyl 2'-pyridyl disulphide (compound IV) (m.p. 59 degrees C; [alpha]D20 -6.6 degrees (c 1.2 in methanol)) was synthesized. 2. The results of a study of the pH-dependence of the second-order rate constant (k) for its reaction with the catalytic-site thiol group (Cys-25) of papain (EC 3.4.22.2) together with analogous kinetic data for the reactions of related time-dependent inhibitors, notably the L-enantiomer of compound (IV) (compound III) and the L- and D-enantiomers of 2-(N'-acetylphenylalanylamino)ethyl 2'-pyridyl disulphide (compounds I and II respectively), were used to assess the contributions of the (P1)-NH ... O = C < (Asp-158) and (P2) > C = O ... H-N-(Gly-66) hydrogen bonds and enantiomeric P2-S2 hydrophobic contacts in two manifestations of dynamic molecular recognition in papain-ligand association: (a) signalling to the catalytic-site region to provide for a (His-159)-IM(+)-H-assisted transition state and (b) the dependence of P2-S2 stereoselectivity on hydrogen-bonding interactions outside the S2 subsite. The analysis involved determination of the reactivities of individual ionization states of the reactions (pH-independent rate constants, k) and associated macroscopic pKa values and difference kinetic specificity energies (delta delta GKS = -RT1n(k1/k2), where k1 is the pH-independent second-order rate constant for reaction with one inhibitor and k2 is the analogous rate constant in the same ionization state for reaction with another inhibitor so that, when the structural change provides that k2 > k1, delta delta GKS is positive. 3. The kinetic data further illuminate the nature of the interdependence of binding interactions in papain first noted by Kowlessur, Topham, Thomas, O'Driscoll, Templeton & Brocklehurst [(1989) Biochem. J. 258, 755-764] in the S2 subsite, S1-S2 intersubsite and catalytic-site regions. Of particular note is the apparent dependence of the binding of the N-Ac-D-Phe moiety on the binding of the leaving group to (His-159)-Im+H and the fact that the resulting rate enhancement is more effective when (P1)-N-H is absent than when it is present. This result revealed by kinetic analysis goes beyond the conclusion suggested by model building that it is possible to make all of the binding contacts in complexes involving the D-enantiomers [(II) and (IV)] as in those involving the L-enantiomers [(I) and (III)].(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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