Non-Essential Activation of Co2+ and Zn2+ on Mushroom Tyrosinase: Kinetic and Structural Stability

作者：Gheibi N^*; Saboury A A; Sarreshtehdari M

来源：Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 2011, 32(5): 1500-1506.

DOI：10.5012/bkcs.2011.32.5.1500

• Mushroom tyrosinase
• Non-essential activation
• Co2+
• Zn2+
• pH

Tyrosinase is a widespread enzyme with great promising capabilities. The Lineweaver-Burk plots of the catecholase reactions showed that the kinetics of mushroom tyrosinase (MT), activated by Co2+ and Zn2+ at different pHs (6, 7, 8 and 9) obeyed the non-essential activation mode. The binding of metal ions to the enzyme increases the maximum velocity of the enzyme due to an increase in the enzyme catalytic constant (k(cat)). From the kinetic analysis, dissociation constants of the activator from the enzyme-metal ion complex (K-a) were obtained as 5 x 10(4) M-1 and 8.33 x 10(3) M-1 for Co2+ and Zn2+ at pH 9 and 6 respectively. The structural analysis of MT through circular dichroism (CD) and intensive fluorescence spectra revealed that the conformational stability of the enzyme in these pHs reaches its maximum value in the presence of each of the two metal ions.

• 出版日期2011-5-20