Abstract
Comparative kinetic studies with glycon inhibitors were used to investigate the properties of the active site of human acid beta-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.45) from normal placenta and spleens of type 1 Ashkenazi Jewish Gaucher disease (AJGD) patients. With the pure normal enzyme, the specificity of glycon binding was assessed with 35 glucose derivatives and epimers. Most glycons were mixed type inhibitors with a predominantly competitive nature (i.e., Kis much less than Kii) and had low apparent affinity for the enzyme (Kisapp = 20-500 mmol/l). beta-Glucose-1-phosphate was unusual, since it inhibited 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-glucoside hydrolysis in an uncompetitive pattern (Kiapp = 0.55 mmol/l) but had no effect on glucosyl ceramide hydrolysis. C-1- (1-deoxy-1-amino-beta-D-glucose) and C-3- (3-deoxy-3-amino-D-glucose) amino and C-5-imino [1-deoxynojirimycin (dNM), nojirimycin and castanospermine] substituted sugars were highly potent inhibitors with Kisapp(beta-glucose)/Kisapp approximately equal to 10(3)-10(5); an amine at C-2 did not alter Kisapp compared to beta-glucose. The variation of Kisapp with pH for the 5-imino- and 1-deoxy-1-aminoglycosides conformed to a model for the unprotonated inhibitors binding to the protonated forms (EH and EH2) of the diprotic (Vmaxapp and Vmaxapp/Kmapp) normal enzyme (pK1 = 4.7; pK2 = 6.7) with pH-independent Kisapp values of 2.9-9.0 mumol/l and 0.22 mmol/l, respectively. Several of the amine-containing inhibitors competitively protected the enzyme from inactivation by conduritol B epoxide, a covalent active site-directed inhibitor, indicating interaction with residues at that site. With the partially purified AJGD splenic enzymes, the results were the same except that Kisapp(AJGD)/Kisapp(normal) = 4-17 for dNM and 1-deoxy-1-amino-beta-glucose; this ratio was approximately equal to 1 with most other glycons, and particularly, nojirimycin and castanospermine. The results of these studies indicated that the glycon binding site of the normal acid beta-glucosidase contains important residues for interaction with the C-2, C-3 and C-4 hydroxyl groups of beta-glucose and a residue with pKa = 6.7 which was critical to the binding of amine-containing inhibitors and the hydrolysis of substrates. The findings were consistent with a specific alteration in or near the glycon binding site which results in the functional abnormalities of the mutant AJGD acid beta-glucosidase.
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