Mechanism-based inhibition of proline dehydrogenase by proline analogues.

D Tritsch, H Mawlawi, J F Biellmann
Author Information
  1. D Tritsch: Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Biologique, URA CNRS 31, Faculté de Chimie, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

Abstract

The inactivation of proline dehydrogenase by several L-Pro analogues was investigated with the aim to block the essential metabolic pathway of tsetse flies allowing the degradation of L-Pro to L-Glu. In vitro studies on rat liver mitochondria showed that only 4-methylene-L-proline was able to inactivate proline dehydrogenase. The inactivation kinetics agreed with a mechanism-based inhibition. The other tested analogues E- and Z-4-fluoromethylene-L-proline, and cis and trans-5-ethynyl-D,L-proline were neither substrate nor inactivator of the enzyme. In vivo 4-methylene-L-proline showed no toxicity against Drosophila flies, but was lethal for Glossina pallidipes flies. This result allows the consideration of 4-methylene-L-proline as an attractive compound molecule in the struggle against tsetse flies.

MeSH Term

Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Enzyme Activation
Mitochondria, Liver
Proline
Proline Oxidase
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Tsetse Flies

Chemicals

4-methyleneproline
Proline
Proline Oxidase

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