The Kinetics of N-Ethylmaleimide Inhibition of a Vacuolar H+-ATPase and Determination of Nucleotide Dissociation Constants.

AUTOR(ES)

Hunt, I. E.

RESUMO

All eukaryotic vacuolar (V-type) ATPases share the property of being inhibited by low concentrations (1-2 [mu]M) if N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). This distinguishes them from P-type ATPases, which are inhibited by higher concentrations of NEM (0.1-1 mM), and F-type ATPases, which are virtually resistant to inhibition by NEM. Using tonoplast vesicles from Beta vulgaris we have determined the kinetics of NEM inactivation of the V-type ATPase to be pseudo-first order. The concentration dependence of the reaction indicates interaction with a single class of inhibitory site with a rate constant of 4.1 x 104 M-1 min-1. Nucleotides protect against inactivation with an efficacy that agrees with their capacity to act as enzyme substrates. The dissociation constant for MgATP has been determined from protection experiments to be 0.44 mM, which is close to the observed Km for hydrolysis (0.39 mM). Likewise, the dissociation constant for protection by MgADP (127 [mu]M) is close to its inhibition constant as a competitive inhibitor (110 [mu]M). Taken together, these findings suggest that NEM inactivation is associated with nucleotide protectable exposure of a single cysteine residue on the catalytic subunit and confirm the utility of this residue for the determination of ligand dissociation constants through protection of maleimide inhibition.

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