J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 260, Issue 5, 2757-2762, 03, 1985
Kinetics of lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase reaction with discoidal complexes of apolipoprotein A-I.phosphatidylcholine.ether phospholipid.cholesterol
A Jonas, JL Daehler and ER Wilson
Discoidal substrates for purified human lecithin-cholesterol
acyltransferase were prepared with human apolipoprotein A-I, cholesterol,
and egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) or dipalmitoyl PC, including dihexadecyl
PC in various proportions as an enzymatically inert dilutor of the
interfacial PC substrate. All the complexes, prepared by the sodium cholate
dialysis method, were found to be very similar in size,
lipid/apolipoprotein stoichiometry, and apolipoprotein spectral properties
to the small discoidal complexes without any dihexadecyl PC, described
previously (Jonas, A., and Matz, C.E. (1982) Biochemistry 21, 6867-6872;
Jonas, A., and McHugh, H. T. (1984) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 794, 361-372).
The kinetic results presented in the form of double reciprocal plots of
initial velocity against bulk PC or interfacial PC concentration were
linear according to the Verger et al. kinetic model (Verger, R., Mieras, M.
C. E., and de Haas, G. H. (1973) J. Biol. Chem. 248, 4023-4034) for an
initial enzyme binding via an interfacial recognition site followed by
interfacial substrate binding and catalysis, in the presence of a
competitive interfacial inhibitor. The results indicate, furthermore, that
the affinity of the active site for the substrate and inhibitor is quite
similar.