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J Appl Physiol 68: 2443-2450, 1990;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 68, Issue 6 2443-2450, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Comparison of 18O exchange and pH stop-flow assays for carbonic anhydrase

S. J. Dodgson, G. Gros, J. A. Krawiec, L. Lin, N. Bitterman and R. E. Forster
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6085.

The hydration velocity of CO2 (0.002 M) catalyzed by bovine carbonic anhydrase (BCA) was measured at 25 degrees C and pH 7.4 by three different techniques: two initial-rate (steady-state) stop-flow methods, one using a glass pH electrode (in Hannover, method 1) and one using spectrophotometric measurements of a pH indicator (in Philadelphia, method 2), and an exchange method in which the disappearance of C18O16O from a bicarbonate solution was determined at equilibrium (in Philadelphia, method 3). The Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) and the inhibition constants for chloride (Ki,Cl) and ethoxzolamide (Ki,ez) were the same for methods 1, 2, and 3. The turnover numbers were 270,000, 400,000, and 555,000 s-1 by methods 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Values for CO2 hydration velocity measured by methods 2 and 3 on the same solution of BCA at the same time were the same. Km, maximal reaction velocity (Vmax), Ki,ez, and Ki,Cl obtained from normal human hemolysate at 37 degrees C and pH 7.2 by methods 2 and 3 were the same. Km and Vmax of the carbonic anhydrase isozyme CA III of homogenate from rabbit soleus were also identical by methods 1 and 3. According to Michaelis-Menten theory, the values of Km and Vmax obtained by method 3 should have been significantly smaller than those obtained by methods 1 and 2. We conclude that the catalytic step itself is apparently not rate limiting under physiological conditions and that method 3 can be used to obtain Michaelis-Menten characteristics of carbonic anhydrase.


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