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CHAPTER 2:
ENZYME AND ENZYME KINETICS
Objectives:
1. To define what enzyme is.
2. Give the classification of enzyme and the nomenclature for which.
3. Show the two approaches in deriving the enzyme kinetic equation.
4. Describe the enzyme kinetic equation by applying the different plot schemes used
for obtaining maximum velocity and specific rate of reaction of Micheali’s constant.
5. Describe the inhibition of enzyme activity and the manner of regulation of enzyme
activity.
6. Analyze the impact of pH, temperature and other factors affecting enzyme kinetics
and activity.
1. ENZYMES
Enzymes are proteins produced by living cells which catalyze biochemical reactions
necessary for the functioning of cells. Enzymes have high molecular weight (15,000 < MW <
several million Daltons). Holoenzyme is an enzyme that contains non-protein group called
cofactors such as metal ions: Mg, Zn, Mn, and Fe; or coenzyme such as a complex organic
molecules: NAD or vitamins. Apoenzyme is the protein part of the holoenzyme.
The biomolecules which are acted upon by enzymes are collectively termed substrates.
Enzymes are highly specific to target substrates, and their specificity and activity are related
to their protein structure (Lee, 1992).
An active site of the enzyme molecule, often due to its molecular conformation, is the region
which targets a specific biochemical reaction. Here, physical and chemical interactions with
the substrate lead to the catalysis of the chemical reaction.
Enzyme is named by adding the suffix –ase to the end of the substrate name that is to be
converted to the desired product or to the reaction which is catalyzed. Example: (1) urease
that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, (2) protease that converts protein or
polypeptides to smaller molecules such as amino acids; and, (3) phosphoglucose isomerase
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Since 1926, more than 3000 enzymes are identified. The Commission on Enzymes of the
International Union of Biochemistry classified enzymes last 1864 into six major classes as
shown in Table 6 (Refer to Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992, Academic Press, San Diego,
California, ISBN 0-12-227164-5). Each of the major classes is further divided into numerical
subclasses and sub-subclasses depending on the reaction involved. Examples of enzymes
with their enzyme classification numbers proposed by the Enzyme Commission (EC) are
shown in Table 6.
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Due to the complexity of the classification system difficulties are often experienced in
accurately describing the reaction involved. This is compounded by the fact that a trivial
enzyme nomenclature was already well established before the introduction of the
international system. Table 7 shows some enzyme categories used in the trivial enzyme
classification.
2. ENZYME CATALYSIS
Enzyme acts as a catalyst which increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being
consumed or transformed. It participates in reactions but is neither a chemical reactant nor a
chemical product. It provides an alternative pathway of lower activation energy for a reaction
to proceed while remaining at equilibrium or no permanent change on the catalyst themselves
by binding the substrate and forming a substrate-enzyme complex which produces the desired
product. It lowers the activation energy of the catalyzed reaction, but does not affect free
energy change or equilibrium constant.
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Free energy (G) is the energy stored in the bonds of a chemical that can be harnessed to do
work. Free energy change (ΔG) of a reaction refers to the change between the free energy in
the product(s) and that in the substrate (s). The free energy change determines the reaction
equilibrium – the maximum amount of the product that could be theoretically produced.
Reaction equilibrium is represented by reaction equilibrium constant
The catalyst activity increases the amount of the product at reaction equilibrium and
accelerates the reaction rate to reach the reaction equilibrium.
3. Enzyme Kinetics
The mechanistic models for simple enzyme kinetics (i.e., single-substrate single-enzyme) is
based on the formation of the enzyme-substrate complex, and followed by a dissociation step
of the complex to form the product and free enzyme. Schematically, the reactions are
represented as,
k1
ES ES
k2
EP
⇄
k 1 (1)
where E is the free enzyme, S is the substrate, ES is the enzyme-substrate complex, and P is
the product. The rate expressions for the enzyme catalyzed reactions can be derived from
either of two approaches: (1) the rapid equilibrium assumption (Michaelis-Menten approach),
which assumes the product releasing step (k2) is the rate limiting step while the reversible
reaction (k1, k-1) is at equilibrium, or by (2) the quasi-steady state assumption (Briggs and
Haldane approach), which assumes that the rate of change of the intermediate
d ES
enzyme-substrate complex is negligible (i.e., 0 ) . Both approaches yield the same
dt
expression and differ only in the interpretation of the constant, Km. If the rate of product
dP
formation is represented by v , the final form of the rate expression for this simple type
dt
of enzyme kinetics is:
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v m a xS
v (2)
Km S
where [S] is the substrate concentration, vmax is the maximum reaction rate and Km is a
constant. In the Michaelis-Menten approach, Km is commonly known as the Michaeli’s
constant, which is equal to k-1/k1. In the Briggs and Haldane approach, Km is interpreted as
[(k-1+ k2)/k1]. Both will be the same if the product releasing step is slower than the
dissociation of the enzyme-substrate complex (i.e. k2<<k-1). In many biochemical
engineering literature, equation (2) is often known as the Michaelis-Menten equation.
Equation (2) is representative of a saturation type kinetics (i.e., the reaction rate achieves a
maximum saturated value at high reactant concentrations).
Reaction velocity, v
vma
x
½ vmax
[S]=Km
Linearized plots of the Michaelis-Menten equation have been used to evaluate the values of
the constants vmax and Km.
Lineweaver-Burk 1
1 Km 1 1 Km 1
plot v
v v max [ s] v max v max v max 1
v max
1 1
Km S
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Km v max v max
Eadie-Hofstee 1 v
plot v Km v max
[S ] v max
Km
v
[S ]
Hanes-Woolf [ s]
[S ] 1 Km 1 Km
plot [S ] v
v v max v max v max v max Km
v max
Km [S ]
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Uncompetitive inhibition v [S ]
inhibitor binds to the ES
1/ v I>0 v max, app
I=0
Km, app [ S ]
complex only and has no 1/ v max app
affinity for the enzyme where
itself v max, app, Km, app are
1/ v max
similarly defined above
-1/ Km, app -1/ Km 1/ [S]
Substrate inhibition occurs when when high substrate concentrations decreases the activity of
the enzyme. It is shown graphically below:
1/ v With substrate
inhibition
no substrate
inhibition
1/ v max
-1/ Km 1/ [S]
Figure 5. Lineweaver-Burke Plots of a System With Substrate Inhibition.
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Table 11. Different Models Which May be Used to Predict the Specific Growth Rate (Shuler,
2002).
Equation
Substrate Monod mS
limited Ks S (3)
growth
Blackman m , iff S 2 Ks
m S iff S 2 Ks
2 Ks (4)
Moser mSn n 1
m(1 KsS )
Ks Sn (5)
Contois mS
Ksx S (6)
Substrate Non-competitive mS
inhibited substrate Ks S
growth inhibition 1 1
S Ki (7)
Competitive mS
substrate S
inhibition Ks 1 S
Ki (8)
Product Non-competitive mS
inhibited product inhibition Ks P
1 1
S Kp
growth
(9)
Competitive mS
product inhibition P
Ks1 S
Kp (10)
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