kinetic analysis of PTPN2 inhibition by BQ.
A, recombinant PTPN2 was incubated with increasing concentrations of BQ. Aliquots were taken every 30 s, and residual PTPN2 activity was measured using a pNPP assay. For each BQ concentration, the natural logarithm (ln) of the percentage of residual PTPN2 activity was plotted as a function of time. The apparent first-order inhibition constant (kobs) was calculated from the linear regression (slope). B, kobs values were plotted against BQ concentrations, and the second-order inhibition constant (kinact) was extracted from the slope. C, ln(kobs) were plotted as a function of ln[BQ], and the stoichiometry of the reaction was extracted from the slope.