Suicide inactivation of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase

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Abstract
2-Keto-4,4,4,-trifluorobutyl phosphate (HTFP) was prepared from 3,3,3-trifluoropropionic acid. HTFP acts as an irreversible inhibitor of rabbit muscle aldolase: the loss of activity was time dependent and the inactivation followed a pseudo-first-order process. Values of 1.4 mM for the dissociation constant and 2.3 .times. 10-2 s-1 for the reaction rates constant were determined. The kinetic constants do not depend on the enzyme concentration. No effect of thiols on the inactivation rate was detected. Only 1-2 mol of F- ions was liberated per inactivated subunit, indicative of a low partition ratio. Dihydroxyacetone phosphate protected the enzyme against the inactivation in a competitive manner, and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate protected as if it formed a condensation product with HTPF. 5,5''-Dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) thiol titration showed the loss of one very reactive thiol group per enzyme subunit after inactivation. All those observations seem to agree with a suicide substrate inactivation of aldolase by HTPF.