Relationships between inhibition constants, inhibitor concentrations for 50% inhibition and types of inhibition: new ways of analysing data

Author:

CORTÉS Antoni1,CASCANTE Marta1,CÁRDENAS María Luz2,CORNISH-BOWDEN Athel2

Affiliation:

1. Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franqués 1, 08028 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

2. Institut Fédératif ‘Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie’, Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 31 chemin Joseph-Aiguier, B.P. 71, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France

Abstract

The concentration of an inhibitor that decreases the rate of an enzyme-catalysed reaction by 50%, symbolized i0.5, is often used in pharmacological studies to characterize inhibitors. It can be estimated from the common inhibition plots used in biochemistry by means of the fact that the extrapolated inhibitor concentration at which the rate becomes infinite is equal to −i0.5. This method is, in principle, more accurate than comparing the rates at various different inhibitor concentrations, and inferring the value of i0.5 by interpolation. Its reciprocal, 1/i0.5, is linearly dependent on v0/V, the uninhibited rate divided by the limiting rate, and the extrapolated value of v0/V at which 1/i0.5 is zero allows the type of inhibition to be characterized: this value is 1 if the inhibition is strictly competitive; greater than 1 if the inhibition is mixed with a predominantly competitive component; infinite (i.e. 1/i0.5 does not vary with v0/V) if the inhibition is pure non-competitive (i.e. mixed with competitive and uncompetitive components equal); negative if the inhibition is mixed with a predominantly uncompetitive component; and zero if it is strictly uncompetitive. The type of analysis proposed has been tested experimentally by examining inhibition of lactate dehydrogenase by oxalate (an uncompetitive inhibitor with respect to pyruvate) and oxamate (a competitive inhibitor with respect to pyruvate), and of cytosolic malate dehydrogenase by hydroxymalonate (a mixed inhibitor with respect to oxaloacetate). In all cases there is excellent agreement between theory and experiment.

Publisher

Portland Press Ltd.

Subject

Cell Biology,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry

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