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The FASEB Journal, Vol 4, 2899-2905, Copyright © 1990 by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

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Secondary 18O isotope effects as a tool for studying reactions of phosphate mono-, di-, and triesters

WW Cleland
Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705.

Secondary 18O isotope effects have been developed as a tool for determining transition state structures in enzymatic and nonenzymatic phosphoryl transfer reactions. 18O substitution in the nonbridge oxygens of a phosphoryl group makes the reaction go faster when the bond order is higher to these oxygens in the transition state than in the reactant, whereas the reaction goes slower if the bond order is less. The isotope effects are measured by the remote label method, using an isotope ratio mass spectrometer for analysis. The bond order to p-nitrophenolate ion when it is the leaving group is indicated by the secondary 15N isotope effect in the nitro group, with a value of 1.0028 representing nearly complete bond cleavage. It appears that the transition states for phosphoryl transfer have no more than one negative charge on the nonbridge oxygens, so that reactions of monoesters are dissociative, reactions of triesters are associative, and reactions of diesters are SN2 with half bond order to entering and leaving groups.


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