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The activation mechanism of peroxidase by ultrasound
1College of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; Chongqing Sweet Potato Engineering Research Center, Chongqing 400715, China.
Abstract:
The activation mechanism of peroxidase by ultrasound was investigated. The catalysis performance of peroxidase with ultrasound treatment was prior to the controls determined by UV-visible spectra and Fourier transform infrared spectra. The transformation of tryptophan residues in peroxidase led to the increase of a-helix and anti-parallel content in the secondary structure, and the content of p-sheet, p-turn and random coil in the secondary structure. In addition, under the atomic force microscope, under ultrasonic treatment, the large molecular clusters of tyrosinase are broken down into small molecular clusters. The current results showed that the activity of peroxidase is activated under ultrasonic treatment, which is mainly caused by ultrasound without conformational change, the catalytic center is exposed, and the affinity with the substrate is stronger.
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