J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 14, 6671-6675, May, 1988

Studies on the activity and activation of rat liver microsomal glutathione transferase, in particular with a substrate analogue series

R Morgenstern, G Lundqvist, V Hancock and JW DePierre
Department of Biochemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

A number of potential substrates for the microsomal glutathione transferase have been investigated. Out of 11 epoxides tested, only two, i.e. androstenoxide and benzo(a)pyrene-4,5-oxide, were found to be substrates. Upon treatment of the enzyme with N-ethylmaleimide, its activity toward only certain substrates is increased. It appeared upon inspection of the bimolecular rate constants from the corresponding nonenzymatic reactions that the substrates for which the activity is increased are the more reactive ones. This hypothesis was investigated further using a series of para-substituted 1-chloro-2-nitrobenzene derivatives as substrates. Activation was seen only with the more reactive nitro-, aldehyde-, and acetaldehyde-substituted compounds and not with the amide and chloroanalogues, thus demonstrating the predicted effect with a related series of compounds. Interestingly, kcat values are increased 7-20-fold by N-ethylmaleimide treatment, whereas the corresponding kcat/Km value is increased only for the p- nitro derivative. Effective molarity and rate enhancement values were found to increase with decreasing reactivity of the substrate, attaining maximal values of 10(5) M and 10(8), respectively. It is concluded that the glutathione transferases are quite effective catalysts with their less reactive substrates. Hammett rho values for the kcat values of unactivated and activated enzyme were 0.49 and 2.0, respectively. The latter value is close to those found for cytosolic glutathione transferases, indicating that activation changes the catalytic mechanism so that it more closely resembles that of the soluble enzymes. The rho values for kcat/Km values were 3 and 3.5 for the unactivated and activated enzyme, respectively, values close to those observed for the nonenzymatic bimolecular rate constants and thereby demonstrating that these reactions have similar properties. The high coefficients of correlation between resonance sigma- values and all of these parameters demonstrate a strong dependence on substrate electrophilicity, as expected for nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
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