8-Anilino naphthalene sulfonate binding as a probe for conformational changes induced in glutamate dehydrogenase by regulatory reagents

Autor: K.Lemone Yielding, Wynelle D. Thompson
Rok vydání: 1968
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Zdroj: Archives of biochemistry and biophysics. 126(2)
ISSN: 0003-9861
Popis: 8-Anilinonaphthalene sulfonate binds to a limited number of sites on bovine glutamate dehydrogenase and exhibits a large increase in fluorescence with a shift in the emission peak. The enzyme-enhanced fluorescence of the dye is sensitive to changes in enzyme tertiary structure, thus serving as a useful “probe” to study structure transitions evoked by a variety of regulatory reagents. Using this technique, reagents previously known to affect the structure and activity of the enzyme may be shown to to result in different conformational states. In addition, such reagents as diethylstilbestrol, Zn ++ , and phenanthridine, which have been shown to require NAD + or NADH for maximum effect on the enzyme, influence fluorescence of the enzyme-dye mixture independent of the presence of the nucleotide.
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