THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF RIBONUCLEASE

AUTOR(ES)

Roberts, Gordon C. K.

RESUMO

The possible mechanisms of action of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease are discussed in the light of the detailed knowledge of the geometry of the active site that has been derived from studies of inhibitor binding by X-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance. When combined with a knowledge of the mechanism of phosphate ester hydrolysis, this information imposes severe geometric constraints on possible mechanisms of action of the enzyme. Two types of mechanism can be distinguished, the linear and the pseudorotation. The linear mechanism includes a catalytic role for both histidine residues at the active site and does not involve pseudorotation of the intermediate. In contrast, in the pseudorotation mechanism one histidine residue performs all the catalytic functions, while the other serves only to bind the phosphate anion; this necessarily involves pseudorotation of the intermediate and specific protonation of the leaving group by the enzyme.

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