title: [Artificial oligomerization of enzymes--a new way of regulating their catalytic activity in reversed micellar systems].
abstract: Comparative studies were carried out in the catalytic activity regulation of native alpha-chymotrypsin and its artificially produced hexameric form as an example of non-dissociating oligomeric enzyme (covalently cross-linked by means of succinimidyl-3-(2-pyridylthiopropionate] in the Aerosol OT reversed micelles in octane. Native (monomeric) alpha-chymotrypsin exhibits maximal catalytic activity in the reversed micelles at the hydration degree w0 = 10, when the radius of the micelle inner cavity is equal to the radius of the alpha-chymotrypsin globule. For the alpha-chymotrypsin hexamer, optimum is observed at w0 = 45, with the inner micellar cavity radius (r = 68 A) being approximately equal to the radius of the sphere surrounding the octahedral combination of the six monomeric alpha-chymotrypsin molecules (r = 61 A). Thus, construction of the corresponding oligomeric structures is made easy, with the optimal catalytic activity in a preset range of the hydration degrees.
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Nametkin
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kabanov
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Kliachko
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Levashov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002384:Catalysis; D002417:Cattle; D002918:Chymotrypsin / Q000378:metabolism*; D004143:Dioctyl Sulfosuccinic Acid; D008823:Micelles; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D008823:Micelles; D011108:Polymers; D004143:Dioctyl Sulfosuccinic Acid; D002918:Chymotrypsin
vernacular_title: Iskusstvennaia oligomerizatsiia fermentov--novyĭ put' k regululiatsii ikh kataliticheskoĭ aktivnosti v sistemakh obrashchennykh mitsell.