Photoinactivation of acetylcholinesterase by erythrosin B and related compounds
Abstract
Acetylcholinesterase was rapidly inactivated when exposed to light in the presence of xanthene dyes. Photosensitizing efficiency paralleled the dye triplet state quantum yields, increasing in the order fluorescein less than eosin B less than eosin Y less than erythrosin B less than rose bengal. The observed first-order rate constants of photoinactivation increased hyperbolically with dye concentration. Evidence for the formation of a dye-enzyme complex prior to inactivation was obtained from spectrophotometric and protein fluorescence quenching methods. The latter technique allowed estimates of the dye-enzyme dissociation constants for rose bengal (20 microM) and erythrosin B (30 microM). After photoinactivation, a portion of the dye became covalently bound to the enzyme. The photoinactivation reaction occurs in both aerobic (air saturated) and anaerobic (argon saturated) solution, with the rates of photoinactivation being about three to five times greater under the latter conditions. The aerobic reaction exhibits a large deuterium isotope enhancement effect and is largely (but not completely) quenched by 10(-2) M azide. The anaerobic reaction is unaffected by azide and exhibits only a small deuterium isotope effect. These results indicate that the photoinactivation reaction proceeds mainly by a type II (singlet oxygen mediated) pathway under aerobic conditions and by a type I (radical) pathway under anaerobic conditions. The enzyme was protected from inactivation by…
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