Inhibitory Effect of Magnesium Ion on the Human Placental Alkaline Phosphatase-Catalyzed Reaction in a Reverse Micellar System |
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Authors: | Hui-Chih Hung Ter-Mei Huang Gu-Gang Chang |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |
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Abstract: | Human placental alkaline phosphatase is a membrane-anchored protein. Entrapping the enzyme into a reverse micellar vesicle mimics the in vivo conditions and allows examination of the properties of the enzyme. Placental alkaline phosphatase is enzymatically active in Aerosol-OT/isooctane reverse micelles. Substantially different kinetic behavior of the enzyme has been observed in aqueous or reverse micellar systems. In aqueous solution, Mg2+ is a nonessential activator of the enzyme. In the experiments described in the present report Mg2+ was found to be an inhibitor for the enzyme in reverse micelles. This inhibition is presumably due to a time-dependent conformational change of the enzyme molecule, which resulted in a curvature in the recorder tracings of the enzyme assays. The Mg2+-induced conformational change of the enzyme was completely prevented by phosphate and partially reserved by EDTA. High concentrations of Zn2+ also strongly inhibited enzyme activity in both aqueous and reverse micellar solvent systems, presumably by occupying the Mg2+ (M3) site of the enzyme. However, binding of Zn2+ at the M3 site did not cause conformational change of the enzyme and the enzyme assay tracing was linear. The M3 site of the enzyme is proposed to have a modulatory role in vivo using magnesium ion as the modulator. |
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Keywords: | Alkaline phosphatase metal site hysteresis reverse micelles Aerosol-OT |
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