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  • Title: Detergent inactivation of sodium- and potassium-activated adenosinetriphosphatase of the electric eel.
    Author: Brotherus JR, Jost PC, Griffith OH, Hokin LE.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1979 Nov 13; 18(23):5043-50. PubMed ID: 227445.
    Abstract:
    The stability of the sodium- and potassium-activated adenosinetriphosphatase (Na,K-ATPase) of the electric eel, Electrophorus electricus, was studied in five detergents in an effort to establish conditions for reconstitution of this membrane protein into defined phospholipids. The Na,K-ATPase activity of purified electric organ membranes as well as the ATPase is stable for at least 1 month of storage at 0 degrees C in the absence of detergents. At low concentrations of detergents, the enzyme is also stable for several days, but irreversible inactivation occurs rapidly as the detergent concentration is further increased. This inactivation begins at well-defined threshold concentrations for each detergent, and these concentrations generally occur in the order of the detergent critical micelle concentrations. Increasing the concentration of the electric organ membranes causes a linear increase in the inactivation threshold concentrations of Lubrol WX, deoxycholate, and cholate. The onset of inactivation evidently occurs when the mole fraction of detergent associated with the membrane lipids reaches a critical value in the narrow range of 0.2-0.4, in contrast to the large differences in the bulk concentrations of these detergents. The eel Na,K-ATPase is more sensitive to detergents than the sheep kidney enzyme.
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