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Properties of Bromphenol Blue as an Electron Donor for Higher Plant NADH: Nitrate Reductase ¹

Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931

Bromphenol blue, which was reduced with dithionite, was found to support nitrate reduction catalyzed by squash NADH:nitrate reductase at a rate about 5 times greater than NADH with freshly prepared enzyme and 10 times or more with enzyme having been frozen and thawed. Kinetic analysis of bromphenol blue as a substrate for squash nitrate reductase yielded apparent K_m values of 60 micromolar for bromphenol blue at 10 millimolar nitrate and 500 micromolar for nitrate at 0.2 millimolar bromphenol blue. With the same preparation of enzyme the apparent K_m values were 9 micromolar for NADH at 10 millimolar nitrate and 50 micromolar nitrate at 0.1 millimolar NADH. Bromphenol blue was found to be a noncompetitive inhibitor versus NADH with a K_i of 0.3 millimolar. When squash NADH:nitrate reductase activity was inactivated with p-hydroxymercuribenzoate or denatured by heating at 40°C, the bromphenol blue nitrate reductase activity was not lost. These results were taken to indicate that bromphenol blue and NADH donated electrons to nitrate reductase at different sites. When monoclonal antibodies prepared against corn and squash nitrate reductases were used to inhibit the nitrate reductase activities supported by NADH, bromphenol blue, and methyl viologen, differential inhibition was found which tended to indicate that the three electron donors were interacting with the enzyme at different sites. One monoclonal antibody prepared against squash nitrate reductase inhibited all three activities of both corn and squash nitrate reductase. It appears this antibody may bind to a highly conserved antigenic site in the nitrate binding region of the enzyme.

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