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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2019

A Convenient, Rapid, Sensitive, and Reliable Spectrophotometric Assay for Adenylate Kinase Activity.

Kai Song, Yejing Wang, Yu Li, Chaoxiang Ding, Rui Cai, Gang Tao, Ping Zhao, Qingyou Xia, Huawei He

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kai SongBiological Science Research Center, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. Kaisong@email.swu.edu.cn.
Yejing WangState Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. yjwang@swu.edu.cn.
Yu LiBiological Science Research Center, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. liyu315@swu.edu.cn.
Chaoxiang DingBiological Science Research Center, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. ding7197767@email.swu.edu.cn.
Rui CaiState Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. cairui0330@email.swu.edu.cn.
Gang TaoBiological Science Research Center, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. taogang@email.swu.edu.cn.
Ping ZhaoBiological Science Research Center, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. zhaop@swu.edu.cn.
Qingyou XiaBiological Science Research Center, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. xiaqy@swu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-9263-2886
Huawei HeBiological Science Research Center, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. hehuawei@swu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-3805-8940
Southwest University · CN

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities XDJK2018B010, XDJK2018C063Graduate Research and Innovation Project of Chongqing CYB17069National Natural Science Foundation of China 31572465Open Project Program of Chongqing Engineering and Technology Research Center for Novel Silk Materials silkgczx2016003Start-up grant from Southwest University SWU112111State Key Program of the National Natural Science of China 31530071
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enzymatic activity assays are essential and critical for the study of enzyme kinetics. Adenylate kinase (Adk) plays a fundamental role in cellular energy and nucleotide homeostasis. To date, assays based on different principles have been used for the determination of Adk activity. Here, we show a spectrophotometric analysis technique to determine Adk activity with bromothymol blue as a pH indicator. We analyzed the effects of substrates and the pH indicator on the assay using orthogonal design and then established the most optimal assay for Adk activity. Subsequently, we evaluated the thermostability of Adk and the inhibitory effect of KCl on Adk activity with this assay. Our results show that this assay is simple, rapid, and precise. It shows great potential as an alternative to the conventional Adk activity assay. Our results also suggest that orthogonal design is an effective approach, which is very suitable for the optimization of complex enzyme reaction conditions.

Indexed as

Adenylate KinaseBromthymol BlueHomeostasisHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationKineticsPhosphorylationPotassium ChlorideSpectrophotometryAdenylate KinaseBromthymol BluePotassium Chlorideadenylate kinasebromothymol blueenzymatic activity assayorthogonal experimentspectrophotometry

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PMID30781833
PMCPMC6412689
OpenAlexW2912786761

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