Electron spin resonance investigations of Na+,K+-ATPase.
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M Esmann
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A revised boundary lipid count for Na,K-ATPase from Squalus acanthias.
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Saturation-transfer electron spin resonance studies on the mobility of spin-labeled sodium and potassium ion activated adenosinetriphosphatase in membranes from Squalus acanthias.
The sodium and potassium ion activated adenosinetriphosphatase [(Na+,K+)-ATPase] in membranous preparations from Squalus acanthias has been spin-labeled on sulfhydryl groups after prelabeling with N-ethylmaleimide. Saturation-transfer electron spin resonance spectroscopy has been used to study the rotational motions of the labeled protein on the microsecond time scale. Effective rotational correlation times deduced from the diagnostic line-height ratios in the second-harmonic, 90 degrees out-of-phase (V2') spectra are much larger than those deduced from the spectral integrals, indicating the presence of large-scale segmental motions, in addition to rotation of the protein as a whole. Experiments involving controlled cross-linking of the protein by glutaraldehyde, as well as measurements of the line broadening of the conventional electron spin resonance spectra, support this interpretation. Both the spectral integrals and diagnostic line-height ratios are found to increase irreversibly with time on incubation at temperatures greater than 20 degrees C, corresponding to a decrease in the segmental motion of the protein and probably also in the overall protein rotation. The native enzyme displays a marked nonlinearity in the Arrhenius temperature dependence of the activity at temperatures above 20 degrees C, and the activity decreases with a half-life of ca. 70 min on incubation at 37 degrees C (but not on incubation at low temperature), paralleling the time- and temperature-dependent changes in the saturation-transfer spectra of the labeled protein. Both of these observations suggest that the changes observed in the molecular dynamics could correspond to functional properties of the protein.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from shark rectal gland and ox kidney--an inactivation study.
The bi-exponential time-course of detergent inactivation at 37 degrees C of C12E8-solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from shark rectal glands and ox kidney was investigated. The data for shark enzyme, obtained at detergent/protein weight ratios between 2 and 16, are interpreted in terms of a simple model where the membrane bound enzyme is solubilized predominantly as (alpha-beta)2 diprotomers at low detergent concentrations and as alpha-beta protomers at high C12E8 (octaethyleneglycoldodecylmonoether) concentrations. It is observed that the protomers are inactivated 15-fold more rapidly than the diprotomers, and that the rate of inactivation of both oligomers is proportional to the detergent/protein ratio. Inactivation of kidney enzyme was biexponential with a very rapid inactivation of up to 40% of the enzyme activity. The observed rate of inactivation of the slower phase varied with the detergent/protein ratio, but the inactivation pattern for the kidney enzyme could not readily be accommodated within the model for inactivation of the shark enzyme. The rates of inactivation at 37 degrees C were about the same in KCl and NaCl, i.e., in the E2(K) and E1 X Na forms, for both enzymes.
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Spin-label studies on the origin of the specificity of lipid-protein interactions in Na+,K+-ATPase membranes from Squalus acanthias.
The pH dependence and salt dependence of the lipid-protein interactions of phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylserine, and stearic acid with Na+,K+-ATPase membranes from Squalus acanthias have been studied with spin-label electron spin resonance spectroscopy, using lipids with nitroxide labels on the 14-position C atom of the sn-2 chain. For phosphatidic acid and stearic acid, the fraction of motionally restricted spin-label increases with increasing pH, with pKa's of 6.6 and 8.0, respectively. In contrast, the pKa of stearic acid in the bulk lipid environment of the membrane is estimated from spin-label spectroscopy to be approximately equal to 6.6. The fraction of motionally restricted phosphatidylserine spin-label remains constant over the pH range 4.7-9.2. In the fully dissociated state the fractions of motionally restricted spin-labeled phosphatidic and stearic acids decrease with increasing salt concentration, reaching an approximately constant value at [NaCl] = 0.5-1.0 M. For stearic acid the net decrease is comparable to that obtained on protonation, but for phosphatidic acid the decrease is considerably smaller (by approximately 55%) than that obtained on protonating the lipid. The fraction of motionally restricted phosphatidylserine spin-label varies relatively little with salt concentration up to 1 M NaCl. Direct electrostatic effects alone cannot account for the whole of the observed specificity of interaction of the two phospholipids with Na+,K+-ATPase membranes.
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Occlusion of Rb+ by detergent-solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from shark salt glands.
Occlusion of Rb+ by C12E8-solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from shark salt glands has been measured. The rate of de-occlusion at room temperature is about 1 s-1, which is the same as for the membrane-bound enzyme. The amount of Rb+ occluded is 3 moles Rb+ per mole membrane-bound shark enzyme, whereas only about 2 moles Rb+ are occluded by the C12E8-solubilized enzyme.
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Occlusion of Na+ by the Na,K-ATPase in the presence of oligomycin.
Oligomycin occludes Na+ in an E1-form of the Na,K-ATPase. The rate constants for the release of Na+ from the E1-form and for the transition to the E2-form are about 0.5 s-1. The effect of oligomycin is not seen using other cations which also have a Na+-like effect on the enzyme conformation. The inhibitory effect of oligomycin on the ADP-ATP dependent Na:Na exchange but not on the accompanying ADP-ATP exchange can be explained from a decrease in the rate of release of Na+ from an E1 approximately phosphoform with Na+ occluded, E'1 approximately P (Na3), i.e. with Na+ in the membrane phase, to an E"1 approximately PNa3 form with Na+ not occluded. E"1 approximately PNa3 is at a step before formation of E2-P, and disappears at a high rate when ADP reacts with E"1 approximately P (Na3).
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Spin-label studies of lipid-protein interactions in (Na+,K+)-ATPase membranes from rectal glands of Squalus acanthias.
Lipid-protein interactions in (Na+,K+)-ATPase-rich membranes from the rectal gland of Squalus acanthias have been studied by using spin-labeled lipids in conjunction with electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. Lipid-protein associations are revealed by the presence of a second component in the ESR spectra of the membranes in addition to a component which corresponds very closely to the ESR spectra obtained from dispersions of the extracted membrane lipids. This second component corresponds to spin-labeled lipids whose motion is very significantly restricted relative to that of the fluid lipids in the membrane or the lipid extract. A stoichiometry of approximately 66 lipids per 265 000-dalton protein is found for the motionally restricted component of those spin-labeled lipids (e.g., phosphatidylcholine) which show least specificity for the protein. This corresponds approximately to the number of lipids which may be accommodated within the first shell around the alpha 2 beta 2 protein dimer. A selectivity of the various spin-labeled lipids for the motionally restricted component associated with the protein is found in the following order: cardiolipin greater than phosphatidylserine approximately stearic acid greater than or equal to phosphatidic acid greater than phosphatidylglycerol approximately phosphatidylcholine approximately phosphatidylethanolamine approximately androstanol.
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Kinetic properties of C12E8-solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.
The properties of the rectal gland (Na+ + K+)-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.8) solubilized in octaethyleneglycol dodecylmonoether ( C12E8 ) have been investigated. The kinetic properties of the solubilized enzyme resemble those of the membrane-bound enzyme to a large extent. The main difference is that Km for ATP for the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is about 30 microM for the solubilized enzyme and about 100 microM for the membrane-bound enzyme. The Na+-form (E1) and the K+-form (E2) can also be distinguished in the solubilized enzyme, as seen from tryptic digestion, the intrinsic fluorescence and eosin fluorescence responses to Na+ and K+. The number of vanadate-binding sites is unchanged upon solubilization, and it is shown that vanadate binding is much more resistant to detergent inactivation than the enzymatic activities. The number of phosphorylation sites on the 95-100% pure supernatant enzyme is about 3.8 nmol/mg, and is equal to the number of vanadate sites. Inactivation of the enzyme by high concentrations of detergent can be shown to be related to the C12E8 /protein ratio, with a weight ratio of about 4 being a threshold for the onset of inactivation at low ionic strength. At high ionic strength, more C12E8 is required both for solubilization and inactivation. It is observed that the commercially available detergent polyoxyethylene 10-lauryl ether is much less deleterious than C12E8 , and its advantages in the assay of detergent-solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase are discussed. The results show that (Na+ + K+)-ATPase can be solubilized in C12E8 in an active form, and that most of the kinetic and conformational properties of the membrane-bound enzyme are conserved upon solubilization. C12E8 -solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is therefore a good model system for a solubilized membrane protein.
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The distribution of C12E8-solubilized oligomers of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.
Gel filtration of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.8) solubilized in octaethyleneglycol dodecylmonother ( C12E8 ) has been performed under conditions where active (alpha beta)2 dimers (Mr 265000) are obtained, and under conditions where dissociation into alpha beta monomers occurs without appreciable loss of activity. It is shown that the alpha beta monomers aggregate with time to form (alpha beta)2 dimers at low detergent concentrations with no change in enzymatic activity. At high detergent concentrations the aggregation is much slower, but the enzymatic activity is lost rapidly. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of C12E8 also suggest that high concentrations of detergent dissociate the (alpha beta)2 dimer into smaller particles, and conditions for gel electrophoresis are described. The inactivating effect of C12E8 at high C12E8 /protein ratios can be related to a delipidation of the enzyme, with about 0.19 mg phospholipid required per mg protein for optimal activity. The experiments suggest that the solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase can be disrupted into particles containing only one alpha-chain and one or two beta-chains without irreversible loss of activity, and that the stable form of the enzyme is an (alpha beta)2 dimer.
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The effect of K+ on the equilibrium between the E2 and the K+-occluded E2 conformation of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.
The rate of the transition from the E2 form to the E1 form of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) has been monitored by the fluorescence changes of eosin. The equilibrium between E1 and E2 is poised towards E2 in the absence of added cations. A stopped-flow tracing of the transition from E2 in the presence of 2 microM K+ (contamination) to E1 (in 150 mM Na+) is multiexponential with a large, rapidly decaying component (t 1/2 about 50 ms) and a smaller component which has a t 1/2 of about 2 s. KCl in microM concentrations decreases the amplitude of the rapidly decaying component and increases the amplitude of the slow component. The stopped-flow tracings can be satisfactorily fitted by a sum of three exponentials. An apparent Kd for K+ of about 5 microM is obtained for the conversion of the rapidly decaying component to the slowly decaying component. The experiments show that the E2 form is a mixture of at least two enzyme conformations. One E2 conformation - without K+ bound, (E2) - is transferred rapidly to the E1 conformation when Na+ is added, whereas the other E2-conformation--with K+ bound with an apparent high affinity, Kocc E2--is transferred slowly to the E1 conformation.
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The effects of Na+ and K+ on the conformational transitions of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.
The equilibrium between the E1 form and the E2 form of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is poised towards E2 in the absence of cations when monitored by the fluorescence of eosin. Na+ converts the enzyme to the E1 form with a K0.5 of 1.9 mM (pH 7.4 and 2 microM eosin). The titration curves indicate that more than one Na+ is necessary. K0.5 for K+ for reversal of the Na+ effect is 0.8 mM with 10 mM Na+, 5.8 mM K+ with 30 mM Na+ and 37.7 mM with 100 mM Na+. In the absence of K+ the rate of transition from E2 to E1 is rapid when Na+ is added, t1/2 is about 50 ms at 6 degrees C (pH 7.4). K+ in low concentrations decreases the rate with a K0.5 for K+ of about 10 microM, and t1/2 is about 2 s at 1 mM K+. K+ in concentrations from 1 to 50 mM (the highest tested) increases the rate of transition from E2 to E1. E2 thus consists of a non-K+ form (E2), a K+ both with K+ bound with apparent high affinity, the 'occluded' form (KoccE2), and a form with K+ bound both at high and low affinity sites (KE2). K+ bound to the low-affinity sites facilitates the transition from KoocE2 to E1. So does an increase in the Na+ concentration, but Na+ is less effective than K+. The rate of transition from E1 to E2 is rapid when K+ is added to enzyme in 20 mM Na+. The rate increases with the K+ concentration, and the effect of K+ does not saturate at the concentrations of K+ sufficient to displace the equilibrium fully to E2. Na+ decreases the rate of transition from E1 to E2. A model is suggested for the effect of the cations on the transition between the different forms of the enzyme. The physiological implications of the effect of K+ at a low-affinity site are discussed.
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Effect of magnesium ions on the high-affinity binding of eosin to the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.
(1) The fluorescence of eosin Y in the presence of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is enhanced by Mg2+. The enhancement by Mg2+ is larger than that obtained with Na+ (Skou, J.C. and Esmann, M. (1981) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 647, 232-240). Mg2+ shifts the excitation maximum from 518 to 524 nm, the emission maximum from 538 to 542 nm. Also a shoulder appears at about 490 nm on the excitation curve, as was also observed with Na+. (2) The Mg2+-dependent enhancement of fluorescence can be reversed by K+ as well as by ATP. In the presence of Mg2+ + Pi (i.e. under conditions of phosphorylation), the fluorescence enhancement can be reversed by ouabain. With Mg2+ and a low concentration of K+ (i.e. conditions for vanadate binding), the enhancement of fluorescence can be reversed by vanadate. (3) There is a low-affinity binding of eosin which increases with the Mg2+ concentration. This is observed as a slight increase in the fluorescence when the excitation wavelength is above 520 nm. The low-affinity binding is K+-, ATP-, ouabain- and vanadate-insensitive. (4) Scatchard analysis of the binding experiments suggests that there are two high-affinity eosin-binding sites per 32P-labelling site in the presence of 5 mM Mg2+ both of which are ouabain-, vanadate- and ATP-sensitive. With 5 mM Mg2+ + 0.25 Pi, the Kd values are 0.14 microM and 1.3 microM, respectively. With 5 mM Mg2+, 150 mM Na+, the Kd values are 0.45 microM and 3.2 microM, respectively. With 5 mM Mg2+, the addition of K+ gives a pronounced decrease in affinity but does not decrease the number of binding sites (which remains at two per 32P-labelling site). With 5 mM Mg2+ + 150 mM K+, the affinities of the two binding sites become identical, at a Kd of 17 microM. (5) The rate of conformational transitions was measured using the stopped-flow method. The rate of the transition from the Mg2+-form to the K+-form is high. Oligomycin has only a small (if any) effect on the rate. Addition of Na+ in the presence of Mg2+ does not appreciably change the rate of conversion to the K+-form, giving a rate constant of about 110 s-1. However, the addition of oligomycin in the presence of Mg2+ + Na+ had a profound effect: the rate of conversion to the K+-form was decreased by a factor of 2000 to about 0.063 s-1. This suggests that the conformation with Mg2+ alone is different from the conformation with Na+ alone. (6) The effects of K+, ouabain, vanadate and ATP on the high-affinity binding of eosin suggest that the two eosin molecules bound per 32P-labelling site are bound to ATP sites.
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Sulphydryl groups of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rectal glands of Squalus acanthias. Titrations and classification.
1. (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rectal glands of Squalus acanthias contains 34 SH groups per mol (Mr 265000). 15 are located on the alpha subunit (Mr 106000) and two on the beta subunit (Mr 40000). The beta subunit also contains one disulphide bridge. 2. The reaction of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase with N-ethylmaleimide shows the existence of at least three classes of SH groups. Class I contains two SH groups on each alpha subunit and one on each beta subunit. Reaction of these groups with N-ethylmaleimide in the presence of 40% glycerol or sucrose does not alter the enzyme activity. Class II contains four SH groups on each alpha subunit, and the reaction of these groups with 0.1 mM N-ethylmaleimide in the presence of 150 mM K+ leads to an enzyme species with about 16% activity. The remaining enzyme activity can be completely abolished by reaction with 5-10 mM N-ethylmaleimide, indicating a third class of SH groups (Class III). This pattern of inactivation is different from that of the kidney enzyme, where only one class of SH groups essential to activity is observed. 3. It is also shown that N-ethylmaleimide and DTNB inactivate by reacting with the same Class II SH groups. 4. Spin-labelling of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase with a maleimide derivative shows that Class II groups are mostly buried in the membrane, whereas Class I groups are more exposed. It is also shown that spin label bound to the Class I groups can monitor the difference between the Na+- and K+-forms of the enzyme.
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Sulphydryl groups of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rectal glands of Squalus acanthias. Detection of ligand-induced conformational changes.
1. Modification of the Class II sulphydryl groups on the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rectal glands of Squalus acanthias with N-ethylmaleimide has been used to detect conformational changes in the protein. The rates of inactivation of the enzyme and the incorporation of N-ethylmaleimide depend on the ligands present in the incubation medium. With 150 mM K+ the rate of inactivation is largest (k1 = 1.73 mM-1 . min-1) and four SH groups per alpha-subunit are modified. The rate of inactivation in the presence of 150 mM Na+ is smaller (k1 = 1.08 mM-1 . min-1) but the incorporation of N-ethylmaleimide is the same as with K+. 2. ATP in micromolar concentrations protects the Class II groups in the presence of Na+ (k1 = 0.08 mM-1 . min-1 at saturating ATP) and the incorporation is drastically reduced. ATP in millimolar concentrations protects the Class II groups partially in the presence of K+ (k1 = 1.08 mM-1 . min-1) and three SH groups are labelled per alpha subunit. 3. The K+-dependent phosphatase is inhibited in parallel to the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase under all conditions, and the ligand-dependent incorporation of N-ethylmaleimide was on the alpha-subunit only. 4. It is shown that the difference between the Na+ and K+ conformations sensed with N-ethylmaleimide depends on the pH of the incubation medium. At pH 6 there is a very small difference between the rates of inactivation in the presence of Na+ and K+, but at higher pH the difference increases. It is also shown that the rate of inactivation has a minimum at pH 6.9, which suggests that the conformation of the enzyme changes with pH. 5. Modification of the Class III groups with N-ethylmaleimide--whereby the enzyme activity is reduced from about 16% to zero--shows that these groups are also sensitive to conformational changes. As with the Class II groups, ATP in micromolar concentrations protects in the presence of Na+ relative to Na+ or K+ alone. ATP in millimolar concentrations with K+ present increases the rate of inactivation relative to K+ alone, in contrast to the effect on the Class II groups. 6. Modification of the Class II groups with a maleimide spin label shows a difference between Class II groups labelled in the presence of Na+ (or K+) and Class II groups labelled in the presence of K + ATP, in agreement with the difference in incorporation of N-ethylmaleimide. The spectra suggest that the SH group protected by ATP in the presence of K+ is buried in the protein. 7. The results suggest that at least four different conformations of the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase can be sensed with N-ethylmaleimide: (i) a Na+ form of the enzyme with ATP bound to a high-affinity site (E1-Na-ATP); (ii) a Na+ form without ATP bound (E1-Na); (iii) a K+ form without ATP bound (E2-K); and (iv) an enzyme form with ATP bound to a low-affinity site in the presence of K+, probably and E1-K-ATP form.
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ESR spin-label studies of lipid-protein interactions in membranes.
Lipid spin labels have been used to study lipid-protein interactions in bovine and frog rod outer segment disc membranes, in (Na+, K+)-ATPase membranes from shark rectal gland, and in yeast cytochrome oxidase-dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine complexes. These systems all display a two component ESR spectrum from 14-doxyl lipid spin-labels. One component corresponds to the normal fluid bilayer lipids. The second component has a greater degree of motional restriction and arises from lipids interacting with the protein. For the phosphatidylcholine spin label there are effectively 55 +/- 5 lipids/200,000-dalton cytochrome oxidase, 58 +/- 4 mol lipid/265,000 dalton (Na+, K+)-ATPase, and 24 +/- 3 and 22 +/- 2 mol lipid/37,000 dalton rhodopsin for the bovine and frog preparations, respectively. These values correlate roughly with the intramembrane protein perimeter and scale with the square root of the molecular weight of the protein. For cytochrome oxidase the motionally restricted component bears a fixed stoichiometry to the protein at high lipid:protein ratios, and is reduced at low lipid:protein ratios to an extent which can be quantitatively accounted for by random protein-protein contacts. Experiments with spin labels of different headgroups indicate a marked selectivity of cytochrome oxidase and the (Na+, K+)-ATPase for stearic acid and for cardiolipin, relative to phosphatidylcholine. The motionally restricted component from the cardiolipin spin label is 80% greater than from the phosphatidylcholine spin label for cytochrome oxidase (at lipid:protein = 90.1), and 160% greater for the (Na+, K+)-ATPase. The corresponding increases for the stearic acid label are 20% for cytochrome oxidase and 40% for (Na+, K+)-ATPase. The effective association constant for cardiolipin is approximately 4.5 times greater than for phosphatidylcholine, and that for stearic acid is 1.5 times greater, in both systems. Almost no specificity is found in the interaction of spin-labeled lipids (including cardiolipin) with rhodopsin in the rod outer segment disc membrane. The linewidths of the fluid spin-label component in bovine rod outer segment membranes are consistently higher than those in bilayers of the extracted membrane lipids and provide valuable information on the rate of exchange between the two lipid components, which is suggested to be in the range of 10(6)-10(7) s-1.
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Eosin, a fluorescent probe of ATP binding to the (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.
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Hydrodynamic properties of solubilized (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rectal glands of Squalus acanthias.
(1) (Na+ + K+)-ATPas from the rectal glands of Squalus acanthias, solubilized in octaethylene glycol dodecyl monoether (2 mg detergent/mg protein), retains its activity for days when stored at 0 degrees C both with and without 20% glycerol. Glycerol protects partially against inactivation at higher temperatures. (2) Solubilization leads to a decrease in the amount of lipids bound per mg protein. 50 mol phospholipids and 40 mol cholesterol are bound per 265 000 g protein. 90% of the phospholipid is phosphatidylcholine (72%) and phosphatidylethanolamine (18%) and there is about 1 mol acidic phospholipid per 265 000 g. In addition, the protein has about 27 000 g carbohydrate as hexose, hexosamine and sialic acid bound per 265 000 g. (3) The calculation of the molecular weight from an In C vs. r2 plot obtained by sedimentation equilibrium centrifugaton in the presence of 560 microM detergent gives a molecular weight of the protein part of the active solubilized enzyme of 265 000 using the measured values for bound detergent, lipid (phospholipid + cholesterol) and carbohydrate. The sedimentation coefficient (S20,w) is 10.1 S, giving a Stokes' radius of 77 A. (4) An increase in detergent concentration to 56 mM dissociates the 10.1 S particle into particles with a sedimentation coefficient of 5.8 S and a molecular weight of 139 000 (Stokes' radius, 66 A). In the presence of this detergent concentration the enzyme is inactive. (5) The molecular weights of the soijm dodecyl sulphate-solubilized, isolated alpha- and beta-chains are found to be 106 000 and 40 000, respectively. (6) It is concluded that the active solubilized enzyme is an (alpha beta)2 structure and that it dissociates into an enzymatically inactive alpha beta structure when the detergent-to-protein ratio is increased.
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