Abstract
An experimental strategy has been developed to analyze the pH dependence of kinetic parameters in two-substrate enzyme kinetics based upon model discrimination, parameter refinement, and optimal discrete design. The experimental protocol proposed includes obtaining reproducible experimental results in different sessions, replicates of each experimental determination, and rejection of outliers. This strategy leads to an empirical kinetic equation that fits the experimental results. As a practical application of this strategy we studied the pH dependence of kinetic parameters of chicken liver xanthine dehydrogenase. We obtained an empirical rate law from the determination of the initial rates at different substrate concentrations and pH. Finally, we have proposed a plausible kinetic mechanism that may explain the experimental findings. This model is not the only one leading to the empirical equation, but it is based on previous experimental findings (Bruguera, P., López-Cabrera, A., and Canela, E. I., 1988, Biochem. J. 249, 171-178).
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