6-(Difluoromethyl)tryptophan as a probe for substrate activation during the catalysis of tryptophanase.

Abstract:

:A substrate analogue, 6-(difluoromethyl)tryptophan, was developed and characterized for mechanistic investigation of tryptophanase. The utility of this derivative was based on its ability to partition between fluoride elimination and carbon-carbon bond scission during tryptophan metabolism. The non-enzymatic hydrolysis to 6-formyltryptophan occurred slowly under neutral conditions with a first-order rate constant of 0.0039 min-1. This process, however, was accelerated by 10(4)-fold upon deprotonation of the indolyl nitrogen (N-1) at high pH. Tryptophanase did not detectably facilitate this hydrolysis reaction, since no protein-dependent conversion of the difluoromethyl group was detected. Instead, the enzyme accepted the fluorinated species as an analogue of tryptophan and catalyzed the corresponding formation of 6-(difluoromethyl)indole, pyruvate, and ammonium ion. Anionic intermediates are therefore not expected to form during the catalytic activation of the indolyl moiety. Instead, aromatic protonation likely promotes the release of indole during enzymatic degradation of tryptophan.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Woolridge EM,Rokita SE

doi

10.1021/bi00221a018

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-02-19 00:00:00

pages

1852-7

issue

7

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

journal_volume

30

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