Influence of 2,5-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone on jack bean urease activity. Inhibitory effect, total reducing capacity and DPPH radical scavenging activity

• Authors: Mirosława Kot , Zofia Olech
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Inhibition of jack bean activity by 2,5-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone (DCBQ) was studied in phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. It was found that DCBQ acted as a strong, time and concentration dependent inactivator of urease. Under the experimental conditions obeyed the terms of pseudo-first-order reaction, urease was totally inactivated. Application of Wilson-Kitz method proved that the urease-DCBQ interaction followed a simple bimolecular process and the presence of intermediate complex was undetectable. The determined second order rate constant of the inactivation was 0.053 (μM min)-1. Thiols such as l-cysteine, glutathione and dithiothreitol (DTT) protected urease from inhibition by DCBQ but DCBQ-modified urease did not regain its activity after DTT application. The thiol protective studies indicated an essential role of urease thiol(s) in the inhibition. The irreversibility of the inactivation showed that the process was a result of a direct modification of urease thiol(s) by DCBQ (DCBQ chlorine(s) substitution). The decomposition of DCBQ in aqueous solution at natural light exposure was monitored by visible spectrophotometry, determination of the total reducing capacity (Folin-Ciocalteu method) and DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging ability. The DCBQ conversion resulted in a decrease of the inhibition power and was well correlated with the increase of the total reducing capacity and DPPH scavenging ability. These findings were attributed to DCBQ transformation by photolysis and the hydrolysis effect was found to be negligible.

Keywords

EN

reducing capacity; inhibition; urease; Folin-Ciocalteu method; 2,5-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone; DPPH scavenging activity

• Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society
• Journal: Acta Biochimica Polonica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 627-633

Dates

published

2011

received

2011-08-31

revised

2011-11-23

accepted

2011-12-12

(unknown)

2011-12-15

Contributors

author

Mirosława Kot

• Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry, Kraków, Poland

author

Zofia Olech

• Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry, Kraków, Poland

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