Abstract
The kinetic behavior of phosphodiesterase activated by transducin in a complex with a non-hydrolyzable GTP analogue (guanosine-5′-O-thiotriphosphate) was studied by the pH-metric method in preparations of light-adapted external segments of bovine retinal rods in a range of magnesium ion concentrations from 0.4 to 20 mM. These results indicate that when using the reaction media containing 10–15 mM Mg2+ ions, introduction of 2–4 mM ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid (a chelator of calcium ions) in the reaction medium induces only relatively small changes in the concentration of free magnesium ions that are not able to significantly influence the phosphodiesterase activity.
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