The thermodynamic essence of the reversible inactivation of Na+/K+-transporting ATPase by various digitalis derivatives is relaxation of enzyme conformational energy

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This paper reports on the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters describing the interaction of selected digitalis derivatives with hog and guinea-pig cardiac (Na+ + K+)-ATPase (Na+/K+-transporting ATPase EC 3.6.1.37). 32 digitalis derivatives were characterized as to the values of the ΔG°′, ΔG, and ΔG quantities in their interaction with (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from hog cardiac muscle in the presence of ATP, Mg2+, Na+ and K+. Nine derivatives were additionally characterized as to the values of the ΔH°′, ΔS°′, ΔH, ΔS, ΔH, ΔS, and ΔS quantities in their interaction with the hog enzyme promoted by ATP, Mg2+ and Na+ in the presence or absence of K+. The formation of the inhibitory complexes is in any case an endothermic, entropically driven process. The Gibbs energy barriers in the formation and dissociation of the complexes, ΔG and ΔG, are imposed by large, unfavourable ΔH values. K+ decreases the ΔG°′ value by increasing the ΔG value more than the ΔG value. In comparison with hog (Na+ + K+)-ATPase, the interaction of three derivatives with guinea-pig cardiac enzyme in the presence of ATP, Mg2+, Na+ and K+ is characterized by lower ΔG°′ values caused by lower favourable ΔS°′ values, and is accompanied by lower ΔG values. The magnitude of the kinetic parameters and the characteristic of the thermodynamic quantities describing the interaction between various digitalis derivatives and (Na+ + K+)-ATPase, indicate the induction of substantial conformational changes in the enzyme protein. A large entropy gain in the enzyme protein, observed irrespective of enzyme origin and ligation, appears to be the common denominator of the inhibitory action of all digitalis derivatives studied, suggesting that the digitalis-elicited relaxation of high conformational energy (negentropy strain) of the enzyme protein is the thermodynamic essence of the reversible inactivation of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.

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