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ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 331, 期 1, 页码 115-121出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2004.04.020
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urease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Canavalia ensiformis; enzyme activity; hydrolysis; urea; Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
A novel assay method was investigated for urease (EC 3.5.1.5) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Canavalia ensiformis by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. This enzyme catalyzed the hydrolysis of urea in phosphate buffer in deuterium oxide ((H2O)-H-2). The intensities of the bicarbonate bands maxima at 1625 and 1365 cm(-1) and of the amide I band at 1605 cm(-1) were measured as a function of time to study the kinetics of urea hydrolysis. The extinction coefficients E of urea and bicarbonate were determined to be 0.72, 0.48, and 0.56 mM(-1) cm(-1) at 1625, 1605, and 1365 cm(-1), respectively. The initial velocity is proportional to the enzyme concentration by using the ureases from both C ensiformis and P. aeruginosa. The kinetic constants (V-max, K-m, and K-cat) determined by Lineweaver-Burk plot were 532.2 U mg(-1) protein, 6.4 mM, and 806.36 s(-1), respectively. These data are in agreement with the results obtained by a spectrophotometric method using a linked assay based on glutamate dehydrogenase in aqueous media. Therefore, this spectroscopic method is highly suited to assay for urease activity and its kinetic parameters by using either cell-free extracts or purified enzyme preparations with an additional advantage of performing a real-time measurement of urease activity. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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