6825 methyllithium in ether. The solution was refluxed for 2 days A 2,4-DNP derivative of the product was made in the usual under nitrogen, then quenched with water. The ether layer was manner, mp 196", undepressed on admixture with an authentic drawn off, and the aqueous layer was further extracted with ether, sample of 14. 2c~-Isopropyl-4ap-methyl-l~-toluenesulfonyloxy-l,2,3,4,4a,7,8,- The organic layers were combined, washed with brine, dried (MgS04),filtered, and evaporated. Ir showed complete absence 8ap-octahydronaphthalen-5(6H)-one (16). The keto1 15 (460 mg, of carbonyl absorption, and the presence of hydroxyl absorption 2.04 mmol) was dissolved in 7 ml of dry pyridine under nitrogen. at 3430 cm-I. This crude alcohol was dissolved in 4 ml of dry Toluenesulfonyl chloride (1.0 g, 5 mmol) was added and the solution let stand for 3 days at room temperature. Water (10 ml) was pyridine under nitrogen at 0". Thionyl chloride (0.1 ml) was added, and the reaction was stirred 30 min at 0". Water was added and added to hydrolyze the excess tosyl chloride, and the solution was placed in the refrigerator for crystallization; 775 mg (100%) of the the mixture extracted several times with ether. The ether extracts desired keto tosylate 16, mp 145.5-146", was collected. were washed with cold 6 N hydrochloric acid and with saturated 3-Isopropyl-6-methyltricyclo[4.4.O.Oz~~]decan-7-one (17). A sodium bicarbonate, then were dried (MgS04), filtered, and evap0.50 M solution of dimethylsulfinyl carbanion in DMSO was preorated. The clear oily residue was distilled to yield 50 mg of pared according to the procedure of Corey.'7 This solution ( 5 ml) df-sativene. The analytical sample was prepared by preparative was added to a solution of keto tosylate 16 (775 mg, 0.00204 mol) vpc on a 10-ft 15% Carbowax 20M on Chromosorb W column: in 5 ml of DMSO under nitrogen, and the resulting solution was ir (CCla) 3060, 1660, and 885 cm-'; nmr (CC14) T 5.60 and 5.28 heated at 60" for 2 hr. After this period, the reaction was cooled, (singlets, 2 H), 8.95 (s, 3 H), 9.10 (d, 3 H, J = 5 Hz), and 9.13 (d diluted with water, and extracted several times with ether. The 3 H, J = Hz); mass spectrum Pf m/e 204. ether extracts were washed with water and with brine, were dried Anal. Calcd for ClSH2a: C, 88.16; H, 11.84. Found: C, (MgSOa), filtered, and evaporated. The residue was distilled to 87.88; H, 11.83. yield 370 mg (90%) of the desired tricyclic product, homogeneous by vpc. An analytical sample was prepared by preparative vpc on a IO-ft 15% Carbowax 20M on Chromosorb W column: ir (neat) Acknowledgment. We wish to thank the donors of 1745 cm-I (C=O); nmr (CC14)T 9.01 (s, 3 H) and 9.02 (d, 6 H, J = 5 Hz). the Petroleum Research Fund and the Division of Anal. Calcd for Cl4H*20: C, 81.49; H, 10.75. Found: C, Natural Sciences, UCSC, for their support of this work. 81.10; H, 10.80. We also thank Professor P. de Mayo for kindly carrying df-Sativene (1). The tricyclic ketone 17 (60 mg, 0.30 mmol) was out the spectral comparisons on dl-sativene. dissolved in 5 ml of dry ether and added to 20 ml of a 5 % solution of
Isotope Effects on the Succinate DehydrogenaseL-Chlorosuccinate System*" Oscar Gawron, Andrew J. Glaid, 111, Kishan P. Mahajan, Gerald Kananen, and Marie Limetti Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. Receiued December 4, 1968
Abstract: Relative rates, rateE/rateD, at p H 7.8, 30°, of succinate dehydrogenase, soluble and particulate-bound, catalyzed ferricyanide oxidation of several deuterated L-chlorosuccinatesare, a-deuterio-, 1.I ; P-erythro-deuterio-, 1.O; a,@-threo-dideuterio-, 2.1 ; @-threo-deuterio-, 2.0. A kinetic isotope effect is thereby established for breaking the @-threo-carbon-hydrogen bond of substrate and analysis of steady-state kinetic data obtained with normal substrate and a,@-threo-dideuterio-L-chlorosuccinatesuggests that this isotope effect occurs at reduction of enzyme by substrate. Interpretation of steady-state data obtained with soluble enzyme is made on the basis of a previously proposed kinetic mechanism involving reoxidation of reduced enzyme before and after dissociation of product. Steady-state data obtained with particulate-bound enzyme require a mechanism involving reoxidation of reduced enzyme after dissociation of product and, in addition, competitive inhibition by ferricyanide. Experiments regarding application of an enol-hydride mechanism t o the succinate dehydrogenase catalyzed oxidation of L-chlorosuccinate indicate little or no exchange prior to oxidation.
as well as the dehydrogenation of the natural substrate, uccinate dehydrogenase (succinate: (acceptor) oxisuccinate, and in both instances the u n s a t u r a t e d trans doreductase, EC 1.3.99.1), a nonheme iron- and acid is obtained. Assuming the same trans arrangeflavin-containing protein, is of considerable interest ment of carboxyl groups for the reactive conformation with respect to its mechanism of a ~ t i o n . The ~ enzyme catalyzes the dehydrogenation of ~-chlorosuccinate~~~ of the substrates, then the hydrogens removed are also trans.'r8 L-Chlorosuccinate thus possesses one set of (1) Supported by grant GM-06245 from the General Medical Sciences Division, National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service. oxidizable hydrogens while the natural substrate pos(2) A preliminary account of this work has appeared: 0. Gawron, sesses two such sets.'s9 L-Chlorosuccinate with one A. J. Glaid, 111, K . Mahajan, G . Kananen, and M . Limetti, Biochem. set of trans-oxidizable hydrogens is, then, particularly Biophys. Res. Commun., 25, 518 (1966).
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(3) T. P. Singer in "Comprehensive Biochemistry," Vol. 14, M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz, Ed., Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1966, Chapter 3. (4) D. V. DerVartanian, W. P. Zeylemaker, and C. Veeger in "Flavins and Flavoproteins," E. C. Slater, Ed., Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1966, p 183. ( 5 ) 0. Gawron, A. J. Glaid, 111, T. P. Fondy, and M . M . Bechtold, Nature, 189, 1004 (1961).
(6) D. V. DerVartanian and C. Veeger, Biochim. Biophys. Acra, 105, 424 (1965). (7) 0 . Gawron, A. J. Glaid, 111, T. P. Fondy, and M. M . Bechtold, J . Am. Chem. SOC.,84, 3877 (1962). (8) T. T. Tchen and H. VanMilligan, ibid., 82,994 (1960). (9) H. R. Levey, P. Talalay, and B. Vennesland, Progr. Sfereochem., 3, 299 (1962).
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/ Isotope Effects on Succinate Dehydrogenase Systems
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well suited for a study of isotope effects on the enzymecatalyzed oxidation. In this report we are concerned with the effects of stereospecific substitution of deuterium for substrate hydrogen on steady-state kinetics and other aspects of the enzyme-catalyzed reaction. For the study a-deuterio-L-chlorosuccinate, P-erythrodeuterio-L-chlorosuccinate, P-threo-deuterio-L-chlorosuccinate, and a$-threo-dideuterio-L-chlorosuccinate were utilized, the compounds being synthesized with retention of configuration by nitrosyl chloride treatment of the corresponding L-aspartic acids, the deuterated L-aspartic acids being obtained by the procedures (Figure 1) of Tamiya and Oshima.'O In the course of the study, particulate-bound enzyme as well as soluble enzyme was employed, the preparations showing, as previously observed, different behavior with respect to the oxidant, ferricyanide.
Experimental Section12 Deuterated L-Aspartic Acids. The several deuterated L-aspartic acids were obtained by the enzyme-catalyzed reactions depicted in Figure 1, the procedures of Tamiya and OshimalO being followed in detail. For reactions involving transaminase-catalyzed exchange, glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase suspension, Sigma Chemical Co., was employed. For reactions involving aspartase, a partially purified preparation, made from P. uulgaris by the method of Williams and McIntyre,I3 was utilized. The aspartase-catalyzed additions were based on the method of Krasna,14 the aspartasecatalyzed addition being trans. 16,16 oc,a'-Dideuteriofumaric acid, required for the synthesis of Lu,P-threo-dideuterio-L-asparticacid, was prepared by catalytic hydrogenation of dimethylacetylene dicarboxylate with deuterium (Matheson Coleman and Bell) according to the procedure of Hoberman and D'Adamo." Deuterium oxide, 99.77 Z, was obtained from Bio-Rad Laboratories. Deuterated L-Chlorosuccinic Acids. The deuterated L-aspartic acids were converted to the corresponding deuterated L-chlorosuccinic acids with nitrosyl chloride by published procedures.7 Typical data are: oc-deuterio-L-chlorosuccinic acid, 18.65 atom % deuterium, 0.933 atom of deuterium/mol; a-deuterio-L-aspartic acid, 13.75 atom % deuterium, 0.964 atom of deuterium/mol; P-erythro-deuterio-L-chlorosuccinic acid, 18.00 atom % deuterium, 0.900 atom of deuterium/mol; P-erythro-deuterio-L-aspartic acid, 12.75 atom % deuterium, 0.895 atom of deuterium/mol; 0-threodeuterio-L-chlorosuccinic acid, 19.75 atom % deuterium, 0.988 ( I O ) N. Tamiya and T. Oshima, J . Biochem. Japan, 51, 78 (1962). (1 1) 0. Gawron, I
