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| H. Seki, W. Schnabel | Requires cookie* | | | Title
| On the Free Radical-Induced Aggregation of Ribonuclease — A Pulse Radiolysis Study Using the Light Scattering Detection Method  | | | | Abstract
| The aggregation of bovine ribonuclease (RNase) induced by either -OH or BrJradicals has been studied. These radicals, which were generated by pulse radiolysis of aqueous solutions with 16 MeV electrons, readily attack the enzyme thus producing RNase-radicals which subsequently combine. At initial radical concentrations low enough (^ 0.1 radical per enzyme molecule) to prevent multimerizations other than dimerization, rate constants for the latter process were determined from the increase o f the light scattering intensity after the pulse: 2 k2 = (2.2 ± 0.3) 10® 1/mol s (Brj initiated dimerization) and (5.4 ± 0.4) 10® 1/mol s (O H initiated dimerization). The G-values for dimerization are: 1.3 (BrJ) and 0.85 (O H). Transient optical absorption measurements revealed the existence o f phenoxyl radicals of_tyrosine (TyrO-) that decayed with a rate constant o f 2 k2 (total) = (5.5 ± 0.7) 10® 1/mol s (Brj-case). The difference between k2 and k2 (total) presumably indicates the occurrence o f disproportionation. | | | |
Reference
| Z. Naturforsch. 37c, 63—69 (1982); received September 161981 | | | |
Published
| 1982 | | | |
Keywords
| Free Radical-Induced Aggregation, Ribonuclease, Light Scattering Detection Method | | | |
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