Iron-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)-catalyzed superoxide dismutation revisited: An explanation of why the dismutase activity of Fe-EDTA cannot be detected in the cytochrome c/xanthine oxidase assay system |
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| Authors: | C Bull JA Fee P O&#x;Neill EM Fielden |
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| Institution: | 1. Biophysics Research Division and Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A.;2. Division of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research, Clifton Avenue, Surrey SM2 2PX, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | The recent assertion of J. Diguiseppi and I. Fridovich (1980, Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 203, 145–150) that Fe-EDTA does not catalyze superoxide dismutation is disputed. By directly observing superoxide generated during pulse radiolysis, we have confirmed the results of a previous study (G. J. McClune, J. A. Fee, G. A. McClusky, and J. T. Groves, 1977, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 99, 5220–5222) which concluded that Fe-EDTA catalyzed superoxide dismutation. We also demonstrate that the reaction of Fe(II)-EDTA, formed during catalyzed superoxide dismutation, with cytochrome c, the probe molecule in the cytochrome c/xanthine oxidase/xanthine assay system for superoxide dismutase activity, is sufficiently rapid (H. L. Hodges, R. A. Holwerda, and H. B. Gray, 1974, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 96, 3132–3137) to obscure the weak catalysis of superoxide dismutation by Fe-EDTA. |
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