MEMBRANE COARCTATION BY CALCIUM AS A REGULATOR FOR BOUND ENZYMES
MEMBRANE COARCTATION BY CALCIUM AS A REGULATOR FOR BOUND ENZYMES
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DOI:
10.1016/0005-2736(73)90389-1
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
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通讯作者:
SOVAK, M
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作者:
HORVATH, C;SOVAK, M
The enzyme activity of spherical membranes formed by conjugates of trypsin and chymotrypsin with a polycarboxylic polymer decreases with increasing Ca2+concentration in the surrounding solution. This phenomenon is reversible and attributed to the coarctation of the membrane structure rather than to changes in the intrinsic behavior of the bound enzymes. Coarctation decreases the swelling and increases the virtual cross-linking of the membrane so that the diffusion rate of the substrate to the catalytic sites is reduced. As a result the overal enzymic activity decreases and the observed reaction departs from the Michaelis-Menten kinetics. The activity of the trypsin conjugate decreases with increasing Ca2+concentration unlike that of trypsin in free solution, because the effect of membrane coarctation masks the enhancement of tryptic activity by Ca2+. The physical and chemical properties of these polycarboxylic membranes, which contain about 40% enzyme protein, resemble those of some cell membranes such as erythrocyte ghosts. The results suggest that a similar indirect regulation of the activity of bound enzymesviamembrane coarctation by Ca2+or other multivalent metal ions may occur in living systems also.