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The traditional method used to investigate the reaction specificity of an enzyme with different substrates is to perform individual kinetic measurements. In this case, a series of varied concentrations are required to study each substrate and a non-regression analysis program is used several times to obtain all the specificity constants for comparison. To avoid the large amount of experimental materials, long analysis time, and redundant data processing procedures involved in the traditional method, we have developed a novel strategy for rapid determination of enzyme substrate specificity using one reaction system containing multiple competing substrates. In this multiplex assay method, the electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) technique was used for simultaneous quantification of multiple products and a steady-state kinetics model was established for efficient specificity constant calculation. The system investigated was the bacterial sulfotransferase NodH (NodST), which is a host specific nod gene product that catalyzes the sulfate group transfer from 3′-phosphoadenosine 5′-phosphosulfate (PAPS) to natural Nod factors or synthetic chitooligosaccharides. Herein, the reaction specificity of NodST for four chitooligosaccharide acceptor substrates of different chain length (chitobiose, chitotriose, chitotetraose, and chitopentaose) was determined by both individual kinetic measurements and the new multiplex ESI-MS assay. The results obtained from the two methods were compared and found to be consistent. The multiplex ESI-MS assay is an accurate and valid method for substrate specificity evaluation, in which multiple substrates can be evaluated in one assay.
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Pi, N., Leary, J.A. Determination of enzyme/substrate specificity constants using a multiple substrate ESI-MS assay. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 15, 233–243 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasms.2003.10.009
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