Binary complex dissociation constants and kinetic di values of liver alcohol dehydrogenase were determined for 3-acetyl pyridine NAD' and NADH. The reduced analog was bound 24 times less tightly than NADH to liver alcohol dehydrogenase whereas no significant difference was found between the binding of 3-acetyl pyridine NAD' and NAD' to liver alcohol dehydrogenate. The rates of interaction of substrates with binary complexes were one tenth as fast when the acetyl pyridine analogs were used. These results were interpreted with reference to the significance of thc pyridine ring amide group in binding, and the interaction of binary complexes with substrates.The reaction mechanism of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase has been studied extensively by Theorell and Chance [l 1, Dalziel [2], and Theorell andIt is now generally agreed that, from a kinetic point of view, the sequence is ordered with the first step being binding of coenzyme and the last step dissociation of coenzyme. Several recent publications [4,5] indicate that the enzyme can bind substrate first but this reaction is not kinetically significant.The binding of pyridine nucleotide coenzymes to the LADH has also been thoroughly investigated [6,7], indicating that NADH is much more tightly bound than NAD+. It had previously been postulated [S] that the amino group and the nitrogen atom in position 9 of the adenine ring of NAD' and NADH formed a bidentate chelate with the Zn atom at the active center of LADH. Subsequent studies by Yonetani [9] and Yonetani and Theorell [lo] demonstrated that it was possible to create an o-phenanthroline-enzyme-ADPR complex, and that the NAD' competitive inhibitions by ADPR and o-phenanthroline are additive. It therefore now seems probable that the ADPR part of the NAD+ is not involved in the formation of a bidentate Zn chelate. The fact that o-phenanthroline is an inhibitor competitive with NAD+ and NADH [ i l l indicates that the pyridine ring must interact with Zn.The 3-acetyl-pyridine analog of NAD' was first prepared by Kaplan and Ciotti [i2]. Subsequent studies indicated that the activity of this analog Abbreviations used. E or LADH, horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.1.); 0 or NADf, oxidized nicotinaniide adenine dinucleotide; R or NADH, reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; 3-AP, 3-acetyl pyridinc.
____with LADH was much faster than with NAD' under standard assay conditions at high alcohol concentrations [13], and that the binding of the reduced analog to LADH is accompanied by spectral [I41 and fluorescence emission [I51 shifts.The purpose of this study is to investigate the kinetics and equilibria of the LADH reaction using 3-acetyl-pyridine analogs of NAD' and NADH as coenzymes. Since the sequences of the LADH reactions with ordinary NAD' and NADH are fairly well established, and the steady-state equations describing them are known, the significance of the amide group on the pyridine ring in binding of the coenzyme can be to some extent evaluated. METHODS LADH (F,) was prepared according to Dalziel[1...