Figure 4.
The metal dependent gluconolactonase activity of SMP30 is compared for Zn2+ (solid squares), Mn2+ (triangles), Mg2+ (open squares), and Ca2+ (circles) bound enzyme. The gluconolactonase assay was performed with saturating gluconolactone (10 mM) with enzyme that had been metal depleted, then incubated with varying concentrations of the indicated divalent cations. Other details of this comparative assay are described in the experimental section.