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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 27, 17737-17740, 09, 1991

Evidence for a phosphoryl-enzyme intermediate in phosphate ester hydrolysis by purple acid phosphatase from bovine spleen

JB Vincent, MW Crowder and BA Averill
Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22901.

The possibility of the existence of a covalent enzyme-phosphoryl intermediate, E-PO3, during catalysis of phosphate ester hydrolysis by the purple acid phosphatase (PAP) from bovine spleen has been examined. Transphosphorylation experiments show that up to 22% of the phosphoryl group from p-nitrophenyl phosphate (PNPP) can be transferred to primary alcohols. Burst experiments at high pH (9.1 or 8.1 for reduced or oxidized PAP, respectively), where hydrolysis of a phosphoenzyme intermediate is expected to be rate-limiting, show clear evidence for stoichiometric bursts of p-nitrophenolate from PNPP. The formation of base-stable, acid-sensitive adducts between PAP and the 32PO3 group of [gamma-32P]ATP has been demonstrated. The pH dependence of the kinetics parameters for reduced PAP has been determined over the range pH 3-8; a feature with a pKa of approximately 6.75 that is attributable to the enzyme-substrate complex is observed. Taken together, the present results are consistent with a two-stem pseudo Uni Bi mechanism that utilizes a covalent enzyme-phosphoryl intermediate, possibly a phosphohistidine.
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