Enzyme Regulation Flashcards
regulation by reversible covalent modification
- alters enzyme activity by”
- causing a conformational change that affects catalysis
- altering cellular localization of the enzyme
- altering interactions with other proteins
- common reversible-phosphorylation, methylation, acetylation, glutathionylation, addition of ubiquitin
phosphorylation
-very common reversible covalent reactions modifications
glycogen phosphorylase
- regulated by reversible phosphorylation
- kinase activates enzyme
- phosphatase deactivates enzyme
regulation of irreversible covalent modification
-enzymes are synthesized in an inactive form and activated irreversibly in the time and/or place they are needed
zymogen
- inactive precursor form of a protease that is activated by a specific proteolytic cleavage by another protease
- digestive enzymes in stomach and pancreas-pepsin and chymotrypsin
- enzymes of clotting cascade
- caspases
digestive enzymes
- synthesized as zymogens and stored in pancreas
- activated upon release into the small intestine- and in response to hormones
- pancreas has tripsinogen, chymotripsinogen, and other zymogens in zymogen granules
- they are released to duodenum
- enteropeptidase cleave trypsinogen to trypsin, which cleaves all the others
irreversible enzyme activations in blood clotting
- maintenance of blood volume requires three rapid responses to injury
1. rapid activation of blood coag
2. localization of clot to injury
3. rapid termination after clot formation to prevent thrombosis - accomplished by series of sequential zymogen activations, most enzymes are serine proteases
clotting cascade
- each activated factor is a protease for the next factor
- factor VIIIa is a protein modulator missing in hemophiliacs
- potential for signal amplification at each step because each protease can cleave molecules then all those can cleave more
- thrombin in final-activates fibrinogen to fibrin for clot
- very confusing pathway and much communication between intrinsic and extrinsic
- need something to turn it off
- rapid activation of blood coagulation
- cascade of zymogen activations allows sequential activation of a series of serine proteases
- each activated protease can activate many target proteases, so signal is amplified
- regulation by irreversible covalent mod
- localization of clot to site of injury
- glutamate residues are modified to gamma-carboxyglutamate on several of the serine proteases of the cascade in a vitamin K dependent pathway
- calcium bridges the gamma carboxyglutamate (on serine protease) and membrane of site of injury
- regulation by reversible covalent mod and localization
pathway with vit K
-clotting protein —> (vit K dependent enzyme)–>
clotting protein with GLA modification
-can now bind via Ca to membrane that is injured
-anticoagulants (warfarin) block the enzyme and stop GLA modifications-leads to slow clotting
- rapid termination after clot formation to prevent thrombosis
- reverse zymogen activation cascade hydrolyzes clot
- irreversible covalent mod
opposing cascade
- plasminogen to plasmin via TPA (lose TPA-too many clots)
- fibrin stopped by plasmin and clot is hydrolyzed
anti-thrombin
- regulation by protein protein interaction
- serpin-binds at the active site of the protease and is cleaved and inhibits the enzyme
- inactivates thrombin and a number of other proteases of clotting cascade
- binds to thrombin and stops it with heparin
pancreatic trypsin inhibitor
- regulation by protein protein interaction
- inhibits inappropriately activated digestive proteases in pancreas