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Glucose oxidase was bound to Sepharose, Sephadex, gelatin, and dextran, yielding immobilized soluble and insoluble derivatives of the enzyme. The soluble preparations possessed higher enzymic activity than the analogous insoluble ones. The reversible dissociation process of the bound enzyme into apoenzyme and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) was studied with the soluble and insoluble glucose oxidase in relation to enzymic activity and conformational changes as measured by circular dichroism and fluorescence methods. Bound apoenzyme was found to be more stable than the apoenzyme obtained from the unmodified glucose oxidase. The binding constant of FAD in bound glucose oxidase (Kdiss≈10-8M) calculated from fluorescent studies was lower than that of FAD in the native enzyme (Kdiss10-10M). The circular dichroism measurements indicated that dextran-bound glucose oxidase has a conformation similar to that of the native enzyme.
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Solomon, B., Levin, Y. Flavin-protein interaction in bound glucose oxidase. Journal of Solid-Phase Biochemistry 1, 159–171 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02991013
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