Zinc |
in vitro preparation of apo-HDT, i.e. metal-removed HDT, and Zn2+-HDT, i.e. Zn2+-added HDT. The Zn2+-HDT and re-HDT contain 2.17 and 0.95 mol Zn2+ per mol subunit, respectively, and have comparable enzymatic activities. In contrast, the apo-HDT only retains 0.04 mol Zn2+ per mol subunit with less than 10% activity, compared with the re-HDT. When the apo-HDT is reconstituted with ZnCl2, the enzymatic activity recovery is about 75%. Data suggest that the re-HDT may have two Zn2+-binding sites, one is an intrinsic or tight-binding site, zinc-alpha, essential for its activity and the other is a vacant or loose-binding site, zinc-beta, possibly non-essential for the activity |
Pseudomonas putida |
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