An ATPase Assay Using Scintillation Proximity Beads for High-Throughput Screening or Kinetic Analysis
✍ Scribed by Jamie A. Jeffery; Jeffrey R. Sharom; Monika Fazekas; Penny Rudd; Ewald Welchner; Louise Thauvette; Peter W. White
- Book ID
- 102563122
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Volume
- 304
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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✦ Synopsis
A new procedure for measuring ATPase activity in which ␥-33 P-labeled inorganic orthophoshate is de- tected by addition of ammonium molybdate followed by selective adsorption of the resulting phosphomolybdate to scintillation proximity beads in the presence of cesium chloride is described. This method is shown to give accurate and reproducible results over a wide range of detection conditions and product concentrations. It requires no separation or filtration steps and is highly compatible with automated highthroughput screening. Rates of hydrolysis are easily and accurately determined over a wide range, and thus the method is useful for kinetic studies also. We show that this scintillation proximity assay is useful for the study of the E1 helicase of human papillomavirus, but it is a general procedure which could also be applied to any ATPase or other nucleotide triphosphate-hydrolyzing enzyme or any other enzyme which generates orthophosphate as a reaction product.