How important are entropic contributions to enzyme catalysis?
- 24 October 2000
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 97 (22) , 11899-11904
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.22.11899
Abstract
The idea that enzymes accelerate their reactions by entropic effects has played a major role in many prominent proposals about the origin of enzyme catalysis. This idea implies that the binding to an enzyme active site freezes the motion of the reacting fragments and eliminates their entropic contributions, (delta S(cat)(double dagger))', to the activation energy. It is also implied that the binding entropy is equal to the activation entropy, (delta S(w)(double dagger))', of the corresponding solution reaction. It is, however, difficult to examine this idea by experimental approaches. The present paper defines the entropic proposal in a rigorous way and develops a computer simulation approach that determines (delta S(double dagger))'. This approach allows us to evaluate the differences between (delta S(double dagger))' of an enzymatic reaction and of the corresponding reference reaction in solution. Our approach is used in a study of the entropic contribution to the catalytic reaction of subtilisin. It is found that this contribution is much smaller than previously thought. This result is due to the following: (i) Many of the motions that are free in the reactants state of the reference solution reaction are also free at the transition state. (ii) The binding to the enzyme does not completely freeze the motion of the reacting fragments so that (delta S(double dagger))' in the enzymes is not zero. (iii) The binding entropy is not necessarily equal to (delta S(w)(double dagger))'.Keywords
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