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L Schachinger

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PubMed1985

Effect of irradiation on immobilized enzymes compared with that on enzymes in solution.

Glucose oxidase and catalase were immobilized by attaching them to nylon fibers that had been treated with triethyloxonium-tetrafluoroborate, diaminohexane and glutardialdehyde according to Morris, Campbell and Hornby (1975). This method assures that the enzymes are bound to a side chain of the polyamide structure. Enzyme activity (as measured by the O2-uptake and by microcalorimetry) was found to be unchanged after 2 years. The apparent Km-constants of the immobilized enzymes with glucose were the same as those for enzymes in solution. GOD and catalase immobilized in poly(acrylamide) gel had the same Km-value. Despite the high stability during storage, the radiation induced inactivation of enzymes immobilized on gel or chromosorb, an inorganic carrier, was of the same order of magnitude as that of the dissolved enzymes. The enzymes bound to nylon fibers showed a higher radiation sensitivity. This might have been caused by an additional attack on the binding site of the carrier.

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PubMed1983

Effect of irradiated dib-cAMP on the tonic and phasic activity of human myometrium.

Cyclic AMP, used as dibutyryl derivative for better permeability, has a relaxing effect on smooth muscle preparations from human uterine tissue (surgical material). The observed decrease of tonus and frequency depends on the concentration applied, shown in the range between 50 and 300 microM. cAMP looses its physiological activity by irradiation in vitro; in addition an inhibitory action of the irradiation products on uterine tissue could be proved. From the data of the Lineweaver-Burk plots, showing the competition between non-irradiated and irradiated cAMP, a ten-to twentyfold higher affinity of the irradiation products to the receptor compared to that of this transmitter could be calculated. The results show that preparations of human origin with beta-receptors behave similarly to animal tissues with beta-receptors. They are further discussed with respect to a better understanding of dose-response curves for chemical and physiological inactivation.

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PubMed1982

Effect of ionizing irradiation on the physiological activity of cyclic adenosine monophosphate on smooth muscle preparations.

The effect of ionizing irradiation on the physiological activity of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in smooth muscle preparations from frog lung was studied. cAMP, given as dibutyryl salt (dib-cAMP) inhibited the radiation induced contractions of the muscle in a manner similar to the action of theophylline. In vitro irradiation of dib-cAMP resulted in an alteration of the chemical structure of this substance, i.e., formation of monobutyryl-cAMP and further derivatives as well as a decomposition of the purine structure. There was also a loss of the relaxing activity of irradiated cAMP on the muscle tone of frog lung preparations. The physiologically measured inactivation of dib-cAMP was far more pronounced than the chemical alteration. An inhibitory effect of the reaction products is postulated.

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