Kinetic behaviour of calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase with pNPP.
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2013-02
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The hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl phosphate (pNPP) by calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase (CIAP) was investigated with respect to kinetic parameters such as Vmax, Km and Kcat under varying pH, buffers, substrate concentration, temperature and period of incubation. Highest activity was obtained with Tris-HCl at pH 11, while in the case of glycine-NaOH buffer the peak activity was recorded at pH 9.5. The enzyme showed the following kinetic characteristics with pNPP in 50 mM Tris-HCl at pH 11 and 100 mM glycine-NaOH at pH 9.5 at an incubation temperature of 37°C: Vmax, 3.12 and 1.6 µmoles min-1 unit-1; Km, 7.6 × 10-4 M and 4 × 10-4 M; and Kcat, 82.98 s-1 and 42.55 s-1, respectively. CIAP displayed a high temperature optimum of 45°C at pH 11. The kinetic behaviour of the enzyme under different parameters suggested that the enzyme might undergo subtle conformational changes in response to the buffers displaying unique characteristics. Bioprecipitation of Cu2+ from 50 ppm of CuCl2 solution was studied where 64.3% of precipitation was obtained. Pi generated from CIAP-mediated hydrolysis of pNPP was found to bind with copper and precipitated as copper-phosphate. Thus, CIAP could be used as a test candidate in bioremediation of heavy metals from industrial wastes through generation of metal-phosphate complexes.
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Calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase, Glycine-NaOH buffer, Hydrolysis, p-Nitrophenyl phosphate, Temperature, Tris-HCl buffer, Bioremediation
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Chaudhuri Gouri, Chatterjee Saswata, Venu-Babu P, Ramasamy K, Thilagaraj W Richard. Kinetic behaviour of calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase with pNPP. Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics. 2013 Feb; 50(1): 64-71.