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Self-sustained pH oscillations in a compartmentalized enzyme reactor system
T Ohmori1, M Nakaiwa, T Yamaguchi
1National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305, Japan.
Abstract:
This work represents our continued effort toward fulfilling the need to discover a model system for experimental investigations of temporal oscillations in an enzyme-membrane system. In this paper, the regions in the parameter space where self-sustained pH oscillations can be induced for a compartmentalized enzyme reactor system, which consists of a well-stirred reactor, a reservoir and a membrane containing no enzyme, were determined via numerical simulation with two proteolytic enzymes: papain (EC 3.4.22.2) and alpha-chymotrypsin (EC 3.4.21.1). The sizes of the regions were qualitatively compared with those associated with enzymic membrane system. As a result, we found that the possibility of experimentally observing self-sustained oscillations in the compartmentalized papain reactor system, as well as in the papain-membrane system, is high. However, self-sustained pH oscillations are less likely in the compartmentalized alpha-chymotrypsin reactor system than in the alpha-chymotrypsin-membrane system.
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