Kinetics and mechanism of jack bean urease inhibition by Hg2+

Chemistry Central Journal

Nana Du¹  Mingming Chen²  Zhaodi Liu¹  Liangquan Sheng²  Huajie Xu¹  Shuisheng Chen¹ 

[1] Fuyang Normal College, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuyang, 236037, People’s Republic of China

[2] Anhui University, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei, 230039, People’s Republic of China

关键词: Kinetics;    Inhibition;    Hg2+ ion;    Jack bean urease;   

Others  :  788001
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-153X-6-154

 received in 2012-10-11, accepted in 2012-11-30,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Jack bean urease (EC 3.5.1.5) is a metalloenzyme, which catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea to produce ammonia and carbon dioxide. The heavy metal ions are common inhibitors to control the rate of the enzymatic urea hydrolysis, which take the Hg²⁺ as the representative. Hg²⁺ affects the enzyme activity causing loss of the biological function of the enzyme, which threatens the survival of many microorganism and plants. However, inhibitory kinetics of urease by the low concentration Hg²⁺ has not been explored fully. In this study, the inhibitory effect of the low concentration Hg²⁺ on jack bean urease was investigated in order to elucidate the mechanism of Hg²⁺ inhibition.

Results

According to the kinetic parameters for the enzyme obtained from Lineweaver–Burk plot, it is shown that the K_m is equal to 4.6±0.3 mM and V_m is equal to 29.8±1.7 μmol NH₃/min mg. The results show that the inhibition of jack bean urease by Hg²⁺ at low concentration is a reversible reaction. Equilibrium constants have been determined for Hg²⁺ binding with the enzyme or the enzyme-substrate complexes (K_i =0.012 μM). The results show that the Hg²⁺ is a noncompetitive inhibitor. In addition, the kinetics of enzyme inhibition by the low concentration Hg²⁺ has been studied using the kinetic method of the substrate reaction. The results suggest that the enzyme first reversibly and quickly binds Hg²⁺ and then undergoes a slow reversible course to inactivation. Furthermore, the rate constant of the forward reactions (k₊₀) is much larger than the rate constant of the reverse reactions (k_-0). By combining with the fact that the enzyme activity is almost completely lost at high concentration, the enzyme is completely inactivated when the Hg²⁺ concentration is high enough.

Conclusions

These results suggest that Hg²⁺ has great impacts on the urease activity and the established inhibition kinetics model is suitable.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Du et al.; licensee Chemistry Central Ltd.

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