Effect of Calcium Ion on the Conformation of the Hemolytic Toxin from the Venom of Agkistrodon halys Pallas
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    The study on the interaction of BPLA2 with Ca2+ by fluorescence spectroscopy indicated that Ca2+ was very important to BPLA2.In the prescence of Ca2+ ,the environment around the Trp residue in BPLA2 became more hydrophobic upon the binding of the substrate to the enzyme,resulting in 9 nm blue shift of the Trp fluorescence emission spectrum. But such a phenomenon was not observed in the absence of Ca2+.The experiment indicated that there was a hydrophobic region in BPLA2 molecule. Ca2+ might increase the hydrophobility of this region. Further,it was also found that the binding of Ca2+ to the enzyme was related to the single His residue of the enzyme.

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Zheng Le, Feng Bo, Zhou Yuanchong, Ruan Kangcheng. Effect of Calcium Ion on the Conformation of the Hemolytic Toxin from the Venom of Agkistrodon halys Pallas[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,1995,22(1):89-90

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  • Received:August 24,1994
  • Revised:October 05,1994
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