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Enzyme Regulation What Factors Influence Enzymatic Activity?

Principle means of regulating activity • Reversible, non-covalent (allosteric and simple- MM) – typically small molecules • Reversible, covalent • -Protein interactions • Zymogen activation • Protein expression and degradation • Availability (both of enzyme and )

Reversible Noncovalent: Reversible Noncovalent Allosteric

Simple activation and inhibition by small molecules – Action at "another site" substrate, natural regulators of Enzymes situated at key steps in metabolic pathways are modulated by allosteric effectors MM kinetics Km, Vmax – competitive, non These effectors are usually produced elsewhere in competitive… the pathway Effectors may be feed-forward activators or Substrate inhibition or activation inhibitors Kinetics are sigmoid ("S-shaped") The availability of substrates and cofactors usually determines how fast the reaction goes As product accumulates, the apparent rate of the enzymatic reaction will decrease

General Features of Allosteric activation/inhibition

In most metabolic pathways there is at least 1 key enzyme Usually these pacemaker enzymes are in the first committed step in the pathway. Many times regulated by both feed forward and feedback mechanisms

A B C D E Sigmoid v versus [S] plot. The dotted line represents the hyperbolic plot characteristic of normal Michaelis=Menten kinetics.

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Allosteric activation/inhibition Reversible Covalent

In most metabolic pathways there is at least 1 key enzyme Examples include: - Usually these pacemaker enzymes are in the first committed step in the pathway. dephosphorylaton, lipid modification. Many times regulated by both feed forward and feedback mechanisms This method is important because it does not alter the total amount of protein and it is easily A B C D E reversed depending on cellular needs Allosteric alterations allow the enzyme to respond to changes in intracellular conditions If the allosteric modifying ligands influence the binding of an identical , the effects are homotropic If the binding of a ligand affects the binding of a different ligand then the

allosterism is heterotropic. This is also called cooperatively

Covalent modification - Protein Protein – the dogma

Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation Most common method of reversible modification - activation and localization Up one-third of all cellular are phosphorylated (so since there are ~30,000 genes, that would be ~10,000 phosphoproteins/organism, and perhaps a third of that in any given type, not including alternatively spliced isoforms). Leads to a very fast response to cellular stress, hormonal changes, learning processes transcription regulation .... Tony Hunter (Salk Institute) ‘87 predicted 1001 protein kinases - more like 2000, but what is 999 proteins among friends?

Protein Kinases and Signal Transduction Pathways What Kinds of Covalent Modification Regulate the Activity of Enzymes?

Specificity in and biological diversity Protein kinases phosphorylate Ser, Thr, and Tyr Tyr Tyr Thr Ser residues in target proteins Protein substrate! Protein substrate! Protein substrate! Kinases typically recognize specific amino acid sequences in their targets Tyr Specific Dual Specificity Ser (Thr) Specific Protein Kinases Protein Kinases Protein Kinases In spite of this specificity, all kinases share a common catalytic mechanism based on a conserved core kinase pTyr pTyr pThr pSer domain of about 260 residues (see Figure 15.9) Kinases are often regulated by intrasteric control, in Phosphoprotein! Phosphoprotein! Phosphoprotein! which a regulatory subunit (or domain) has a pseudosubstrate sequence that mimics the target Over-expression and constitutive activation of protein kinases sequence, minus the phosphorylatable residue exist in many human cancers; >80% of the proto-oncogenes and oncogenes identified encode protein tyrosine kinases.

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Covalent modification - Protein kinases Covalent modification - Protein kinases

Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation Regulation of protein phosphorylation varies depending on Different than allosteric or Michealis Menten regulation protein Phosphorylation stabilized thermodynamically - some turned on or off - only half-available energy used in adding phosphoryl to - most kinases are regulated protein - generally not regulated - change in free energy forces phosphorylation reaction in - can lead to large amplification of original signal one direction Four general classes of protein kinases, based on substrate Phosphatases reverse direction (both sequence and amino acid phosphorylated), homology and The rate of reaction of most phosphatases are 1000 times faster regulation mechanisms (thousands of kinases) Phosphorylation occurs on serine threonine or tyrosine residues

What differences occur due to the addition of a phosphoryl group?

Other Kinds of Covalent Modification Protein-Protein Interaction

Based on interface between two proteins - can cause allosteric regulation but this style of interaction is different than between enzyme subunits

Protein binding can alter structure of second protein – one of the pairs are often regulated by a or covalent regulation

GTP Binding Proteins as an example

Zymogen Activity Zymogen Activation

Zymogen / proteolytic activation - this is an irreversible mechanism and must Zymogens are inactive precursors of enzymes. have tight control for the activation. Typically, proteolytic cleavage produces the active – most digestive enzymes such as and enzyme. – clotting proteins are also commonly activated by this means. Why is this important? Irreversible activation by cleavage of one or more peptide bonds. Usually protein is made in one organ and secreted in the inactive form and then made active at a distal site/tissue • some hormones (insulin) • digestive enzymes

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Protein Concentration Availability

Protein lifetime in cells is not indefinite Availability - there are several means by which the • – regulated activity within cells cell controls this way. • Proteins are usually tagged for selective destruction in proteolytic • altering the physical location of the enzyme complexes called proteasomes by covalent attachment of ubiquitin, a small, compact protein that is highly conserved. with or away from the substrate obviously N-end rule: On average, a protein's half-life correlates with its N-terminal controls the activity. Translocation of proteins residue. from one organelle to another is the mode of • Proteins with N-terminal Met, Ser, Ala, Thr, Val, or Gly have half lives operation. greater than 20 hours. • Sequestering or controlling the enzyme from it's • Proteins with N-terminal Phe, Leu, Asp, Lys, or Arg have half lives of 3 substrate (-6 phosphate is in the cytosol min or less. whereas the enzyme glucose 6 is PEST proteins, rich in Pro (P), Glu (E), Ser (S) and Thr (T), are more rapidly degraded than other proteins. in the inside of the endoplasmic reticulum. The Protein expression – RNA levels influence protein production substrate is transported across the ER Total levels of protein is a balance of both degradation and production membrane when the reaction is needed)

Availability

• Turnover - proteins generally have a defined half-life in the cell. Proteins are regularly being made and degraded. Altering either of these processes changes the total concentration of enzyme in the cell available for metabolism. The genetic control or rate of protein expression will play an important role in this regulation. • Various pathways can be differentially regulated by the use of Isozymes - Enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but are different kinetic properties and regulation

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