Secondary kinetic isotope effects as probes of environmentally-coupled enzymatic hydrogen tunneling reactions

Sam Hay, Jiayun Pang, Phillip J. Monaghan, Xi Wang, Rhiannon M. Evans, Michael J. Sutcliffe, Rudolf K. Allemann, Nigel S. Scrutton

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    Abstract

    The secondary kinetic isotope effect for hydride transfer from NADPH to dihydrofolate catalyzed by dihydrofolate reductase (see traces) is neither temperature dependent nor exalted. In environmentally coupled models of H-tunneling, the secondary isotope effects do not report on promoting motions, but reflect the active site geometry attained immediately prior to H transfer (i.e. the 'tunnelling ready configuration'). (Graph Presented). © 2008 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1536-1539
    Number of pages3
    JournalChemPhysChem
    Volume9
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 4 Aug 2008

    Keywords

    • Catalysis
    • Enzyme
    • Kinetic isotope effects
    • Quantum chemistry
    • Reaction mechanisms

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