The Structures of Diethylaminoethylated Glucose and Oligosaccharides Derived from Cationic Starch |
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Authors: | Teruaki Shiroza Kazuo Furihata Toyoshige Endō Haruo Seto Noboru Ōtake |
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Institution: | Institute of Applied Microbiology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan |
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Abstract: | Phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase, which catalyzes all the three-step methylation from phosphatidylethanolamine to phosphatidylcholine, was purified to homogeneity from the membrane fraction of Zymomonas mobilis. The purified enzyme exhibited a single band on SDS- polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and its molecular weight was estimated to be 42,000 on comparison with those of marker proteins. The three activities dependent on phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidyl-N monomethylethanolamine and phosphatidyl-N Af-dimethylethanolamine of the purified enzyme showed similar pH profiles with an optimum of pH 8.5, and were enhanced in the same manner by Triton X-100 and l-cysteine. The maximal velocities of the three reactions for S-adenosyl-l-methionine were 0.04, 1.36 and 0.69 nmol/mg protein/min with apparent Michaelis constant values of 3.6, 1.9 and 3.9 fiM, respectively, indicating that the first-step methylation is rate-limiting for the pathway in the organism. |
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