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The stability of porcine brain inositol monophosphatase in the presence of increasing concentrations of urea was investigated at pH 7.5. Exposure of the enzyme to 8 M urea brings about the dissociation of the dimeric species of 58 kDa into monomeric forms as revealed by gel filtration chromatography. Unfolding of the protein by 8 M urea results in a decrease of the ellipticity at 220 nm (20%) together with a perturbation of the near-UV circular dichroism spectrum. Urea-treated inositol monophosphatase binds Co2+ ions with a dissociation constant of 3.3 μM. The enzyme is catalytically competent when assayed with 4-nitrophenyl-phosphate in the presence of the activating ion Co2+ at pH 7.5 in 8 M urea. The apparent activation constant for Co2+ is 2.5 mM. It is postulated that partially folded conformations of monomeric species preserve their catalytic function because the affinity of Co2+ ions for the metal coordination center of the protein is not perturbed by exposure to 8 M urea.
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Lau, C.K., Lo, S.C., Li, W. et al. Partially Folded Conformations of Inositol Monophosphatase Endowed with Catalytic Activity. J Protein Chem 17, 789–797 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020726318091
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