SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE - COMPARISON OF RATE CONSTANTS
SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE - COMPARISON OF RATE CONSTANTS
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(73)90636-x
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
FRIDOVICH, I
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作者:
FORMAN, HJ;FRIDOVICH, I
O2−was introduced, at a constant rate, into buffered aqueous solutions, either by mechanical infusion of KO2, dissolved in tetrahydrofuran, or by thein situaction of xanthine oxidase on xanthine plus oxygen. This O2−was allowed to react with ferricytochromecor with tetranitromethane and the formation of the reaction products, ferrocytochromecor nitroform, respectively, was monitored spectrophotometrically. That concentration of Superoxide dismutase, which competed equally with given levels of cytochromecor tetranitromethane and which thus caused 50% inhibition of the rates of accumulation of ferrocytochromecor of nitroform, was determined. The rate constant for the enzymatic dismutation of O2−by the copper and zinc containing enzyme from bovine erythrocytes was then calculated from the known rate constants for the reaction of O2−with ferricytochromecand with tetranitromethane and was found to be 2 × 109m−1sec−1at pH 7.8 and 8.5. This rate constant was obtained at steady-state concentrations of O2−in the 10−8m→ 10−13mrange and is in full agreement with the results of pulse radiolytic investigations which were performed at O2−concentrations in the 10−5mrange. The second order rate constant for the enzymatic dismutation of O2−is thus independent of the concentration of O2−in the range 10−5→ 10−13m.Several distinct types of Superoxide dismutase have been described. These include the mangano-enzymes fromEscherichia coliand from chicken liver mitochondria and the iron-enzyme fromE. coli. The rate constants for the dismutations catalyzed by these enzymes have also been investigated as a function of pH.