摘要:
p-(Diethylamino)-o-hydroxy-alpha-methylcinnamoyl (CINN) was used as an acylating moiety for the formation of stable CINN-enzymes at the active site serine residues of the enzymes chymotrypsin, Factor Xa, and thrombin. Photolysis of the stable CINN-enzymes generates enzymatic activity via the proposed consecutive steps of photoisomerization (rate-determining step) and thermal lactonization (fast). Photochemical studies were undertaken to assess how an enzyme active site could alter the photochemistry of the cinnamoyl derivative. Quantum yields for E to Z photoisomerization (PHI(E-->Z)) were measured for the three CINN-enzymes at 366 nm (20-degrees-C in pH 7.4 Tris buffer) and for the model system ethyl p-(diethylamino)-o-hydroxy-alpha-methylcinnamate (CINN-OEt). Relative to the value of PHI(E-->Z) = 0.13 for CINN-OEt, CINN actually displayed an enhanced isomerization efficiency while bound at the active sites of chymotrypsin and Factor Xa (PHI(E-->Z) = 0.17 and 0.23, respectively) and a decreased isomerization efficiency (PHI(E-->Z) = 0.04) while bound to thrombin. The influence of chymotrypsin's active site on cinnamoyl photoisomerization was investigated further by measuring the photostationary state isomeric ratios for MeCINN-chymotrypsin and MeCINN-OEt, the methyl ether analogue of the corresponding CINN photolytes, in pH 7.4 Tris buffer. MeCINN-chymotrypsin displayed a value of 2.7 for PHI(Z-->E)/(PHI(E-->Z = quantum yield for E to Z and PHI(Z-->E) = quantum yield for Z to E), and MeCINN-OEt exhibited a value of 1.7. This difference could not be attributed to the greater hydrophobicity of chymotrypsin's active site since values of PHI(Z-->E/PHI(E-->Z) for MeCINN-OEt in organic solvents were less than unity. Photoisomerization quantum yields were also measured for the isomers of MeCINN-chymotrypsin and MeCINN-OEt. Both acyl-enzyme isomers exhibited less efficient photoisomerization (E to Z and Z to E) than their respective model system, MeCINN-OEt.