title: Comparison of 18O exchange and pH stop-flow assays for carbonic anhydrase.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6085.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Dodgson
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gros
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Krawiec
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bitterman
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Forster
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases / Q000032:analysis*; D002417:Cattle; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D011817:Rabbits; D013053:Spectrophotometry
chemical_list: D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases