A NEW APPROACH TO TIME-RESOLVED STUDIES OF ATP-REQUIRING BIOLOGICAL-SYSTEMS - LASER FLASH-PHOTOLYSIS OF CAGED ATP
A NEW APPROACH TO TIME-RESOLVED STUDIES OF ATP-REQUIRING BIOLOGICAL-SYSTEMS - LASER FLASH-PHOTOLYSIS OF CAGED ATP
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.77.12.7237
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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TRENTHAM, DR
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MCCRAY, JA;HERBETTE, L;TRENTHAM, DR
2-Nitrobenzyl derivatives are useful photolabile protecting groups in synthetic organic chemistry. Recently, P3-1-(2-nitro)phenylethyladenosine 5''-triphosphate caged ATP, was synthesized and its photolysis was shown to generate ATP in situ. This and related reactions have great potential for structural and kinetic studies of both intact and soluble biological systems and it is thus important to define the kinetic characteristics of the photolytic reaction. Caged ATP (2.5 mM) was photolyzed at 347 nm by a single 30 ns pulse from a frequency-doubled ruby laser of 25 mJ energy to generate 500 .mu.M ATP. The kinetics of the overall reaction were determined by monitoring the kinetics of ATP-induced dissociation of [rabbit muscle] actomyosin, a reaction of known kinetic characteristics. Release of 500 .mu.M ATP was controlled by a process having a rate constant of 2.2 .times. 109 [H+] s-1 at 22.degree. C at pH 5.8-9.5, which corresponds to 220 s-1 at pH 7. This process is believed to be the breakdown of an aci-nitro compound, which was identified on the basis of its spectral properties and the photochromicity of related 2-nitrobenzyl compounds.