scholarly journals Preparation and characterization of frog muscle myosin subfragment 1 and actin

1978 ◽  
Vol 171 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
M A Ferenczi ◽  
E Homsher ◽  
D R Trentham ◽  
A G Weeds
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Rana Temporaria ◽  
Kinetic Properties ◽  
Steady State Kinetic ◽  
Myosin Subfragment ◽  
Myosin Subfragment 1 ◽  
Fast Twitch ◽  
Muscle Myosin ◽  
State Kinetic

The preparation, structural and steady-state kinetic characteristics of contractile proteins from the leg muscle of frogs Rana temporaria and Rana pipiens are described. Actin and myosin from the two frog species are indistinguishable. The proteins have structural and steady-state kinetic properties similar to those from rabbit fast-twitch skeletal muscle. Chymotrypsin digestion of frog myosin or myofibrils in the presence of EDTA yields subfragment 1, which is separated by chromatography into two components that are distinguished by their alkali light-chain content.

scholarly journals Characterization of Nicotinamidases: Steady State Kinetic Parameters, Classwide Inhibition by Nicotinaldehydes, and Catalytic Mechanism

Biochemistry ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (49) ◽  
pp. 10421-10439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod B. French ◽  
Yana Cen ◽  
Tracy L. Vrablik ◽  
Ping Xu ◽  
Eleanor Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Kinetic Parameters ◽  
Catalytic Mechanism ◽  
Steady State Kinetic ◽  
State Kinetic

A Kinetic Method for Characterization of Heterogenous Fibrinogen and Its Application to Fibrinogen Grand Rapids, a Congenital Dysfibrinogenemia

1982 ◽  
Vol 48 (02) ◽  
pp. 182-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
D L Higgins ◽  
S D Lewis ◽  
J A Penner ◽  
J A Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Kinetic Parameter ◽  
Kinetic Analysis ◽  
Kinetic Method ◽  
Plasma Fibrinogen ◽  
Normal Value ◽  
Steady State Kinetic ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
State Kinetic

SummaryA kinetic analysis was developed to determine the steady state kinetic parameter kcat/KM for the thrombin-catalyzed release of FPA from abnormal and normal fibrinogen in mixtures of the two. Such mixtures are likely to comprise the fibrinogen of individuals with congenital dysfibrinogenemia. The analysis was used to characterize fibrinogen Grand Rapids, a new congenital dysfibrinogenemia. It indicated that fibrinogen from affected individuals was composed of normal and abnormal fibrinogen in roughly equal amounts, and that the value of kcat/KM for the thrombin-catalyzed release of FPA from the fibrinogen variant was 77fold lower than that for the release of FPA from the normal fibrinogen. In separate studies, fibrinogen Grand Rapids was found to exhibit a reduced clottability. Additionally, affected individuals appeared to have plasma fibrinogen concentrations which were about one-third the normal value.

Effect of diethyl pyrocarbonate modification on spectral and steady-state kinetic properties of bovine heart cytochrome oxidase

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 565-572
Author(s):  
John D. Doran ◽  
Bruce C. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Proton Pumping ◽  
Kinetic Properties ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Bovine Heart ◽  
Diethyl Pyrocarbonate ◽  
Steady State Kinetic ◽  
State Kinetic

The histidine-specific reagent diethyl pyrocarbonate has been used to chemically modify bovine heart cytochrome oxidase. Thirty-two of sixty-seven histidine residues of cytochrome oxidase are accessible to modification by diethyl pyrocarbonate. Effects on the Soret and α bands of the heme spectrum indicate disturbance in the environment of one or both of the heme groups. However, diethyl pyrocarbonate modification does not alter the 830-nm absorbance band, suggesting that the environment of CuA is unchanged. Maximal modification of cytochrome oxidase by diethyl pyrocarbonate results in loss of 85–90% of the steay-state electron transfer activity, which can be reversed by hydroxylamine treatment. However, modification of the first 20 histidines does not alter either activity or the heme spectrum, but only when 32 residues have been modified are the activity and heme spectral changes complete. The steady-state kinetic profile of fully modified oxidase is monophasic; the phase corresponding to tight cytochrome c binding and low turnover is retained, whereas the high turnover phase is abolished. Proteoliposomes incorporated with modified oxidase have a 65% lower respiratory control ratio and 40% lower proton pumping stoichiometry than liposomes containing unmodified oxidase. These results are discussed in terms of a redox-linked proton pumping model for energy coupling via cytochrome oxidase.Key words: cytochrome oxidase, histidine modification, electron transfer, proton pumping, diethyl pyrocarbonate.

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