INTERACTION OF FLUORESCENCE PROBES WITH ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE - SITE AND SPECIFICITY OF PROPIDIUM BINDING
INTERACTION OF FLUORESCENCE PROBES WITH ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE - SITE AND SPECIFICITY OF PROPIDIUM BINDING
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00680a029
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
LAPPI, S
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作者:
TAYLOR, P;LAPPI, S
A bis-quaternary fluorescence probe, propidium diiodide, has been found to exhibit a tenfold enhancement of fluorescence when bound to acetylcholinesterase from Torpedo californica. The complex is characterized by a high affinity, ÁTd= 3.0 X 10-7 M, and 1: 1 stoichiometry with the 82,000 molecular weight subunit of acetylcholines-terase. A wide variety of other quaternary ammonium lig-ands such as decamethonium, gallamine, rf-tubocurarine, tetraethylammonium, and tetramethylammonium will com-pletely dissociate propidium from the enzyme as will mono-valent and divalent inorganic cations. The competitive dis-sociation does not show cooperative behavior or a distinct requirement for occupation of multiple sites of different af-finity to produce displacement. While a directly competitive relationship can be illustrated macroscopically, the various quaternary ligands show a different susceptibility toward inorganic cation displacement. The affinity of propidium relative to gallamine increases with ionic strength. This finding indicates that there is not complete equivalence inFrom steady-state kinetic studies using natural and syn-thetic substrates, it has become evident that various quaternary ammonium ligands and inorganic cations interact strongly with acetylcholinesterase at more than a single site (Changeux, 1966; Kitz et al., 1970; Wombacher and Wolf, 1971; Belleau et al., 1970). This evidence has been reinforced by nuclear magnetic resonance(Kato, 1972) and, more recently, fluorescence spectroscopicmeasurements of ligand association with acetylcholinesterase (Mooser et al., 1972; Mooser and Sigman, 1974). The latter approaches possess the inherent advantage that ligand association can be measured directly ratherthan relying upon the influence