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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 45, Issue 21, Pages 8724-8733Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5dt04790k
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- German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) [BE 2234/10-1/2]
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) [02NUK030F]
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The complexation of Eu(III) and Cm(III) with the protein a-amylase (Amy), a major enzyme in saliva and pancreatic juice, was investigated over wide ranges of pH and concentration at both ambient and physiological temperatures. Macroscopic sorption experiments demonstrated a strong and fast binding of Eu(III) to Amy between pH 5 and 8. The protein provides three independent, non-cooperative binding sites for Eu(III). The overall association constant of these three binding sites on the protein was calculated to be log K = 6.4 +/- 0.1 at ambient temperature. With potentiometric titration, the averaged deprotonation constant of the carboxyl groups (the aspartic and glutamic acid residues) of Amy was determined to be pKa = 5.23 +/- 0.14 at 25 degrees C and 5.11 +/- 0.24 at 37 degrees C. Time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (TRLFS) revealed two different species for both Eu(III) and Cm(III) with Amy. In the case of the Eu(III) species, the stability constants were determined to be log beta(11) = 4.7 +/- 0.2 and log beta(13) = 12.0 +/- 0.4 for Eu : Amy = 1 : 1 and 1 : 3 complexes, respectively, whereas the values for the respective Cm(III) species were log beta(11) = 4.8 +/- 0.1 and log beta(13) = 12.1 +/- 0.1. Furthermore, the obtained stability constants were extrapolated to infinite dilution to make our data compatible with the existing thermodynamic database.
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