Succinylated copper, zinc superoxide dismutase. A novel approach to the problem of active subunits
- 8 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 21 (12), 2853-2856
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00541a007
Abstract
Bovine erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (BESOD) was extensively succinylated with succinic anhydride. Succinylated BESOD has an identical EPR spectrum but only 10% as much activity as the native enzyme, showing that an increase of the negative charge of the protein surface lowers the activity without alteration of the active site structure. On the other hand, sodium dodecyl sulfate SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that interaction between subunits is strongly weakened by succinylation. SDS has no effect on either the activity or EPR spectrum of the protein. BESOD was immobilized by coupling to a Sepharose matrix with no alteration of the EPR spectrum. Succinylation of the immobilized protein led to detachment from the gel of .apprx. 50% of the molecules, as estimated by parallel EPR measurements of the gel and activity determinations on the eluate. The succinylation leads to dissociation of BESOD into nondenatured subunits, having lower activity than the native protein possibly because of charge effects on the enzyme.sbd.O2- interaction.Keywords
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