Apyrase from pea stems: Isolation, purification, characterization and identification of a NTPase from the cytoskeleton fraction of pea stem tissue |
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Authors: | Koichi Shibata Yae Morita Shunnosuke Abe Bratislav Stankovi Eric Davies |
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Institution: | a Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Biological Resources, College of Agriculture, Ehime University, Matsuyama, 790-8566, Japan;b Botany Department, Box 7612, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695, USA |
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Abstract: | The cytoskeleton pellet from the first internode of dark-grown pea stems was disintegrated in a high salt buffer, ultracentrifuged to remove ribosomes and the post-ribosomal supernatant was applied to a heparin affinity column. Significant ATPase activity was present in the cytoskeleton fraction and this was eluted from the column at 0.6–0.7 M KOAc, in the same fractions as a 49-kDa protein (which we called B3). B3 was desalted and further purified by cation exchange column chromatography. Purified B3 catalyzed hydrolysis of ATP, CTP, GTP, TTP, UTP and ADP and thus appears to be an apyrase (ATP diphosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.5). Partial amino acid sequences of three major fragments were obtained by digestion of B3 by Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease (EC 3.4.21.19), and all these sequences were consistent with the previously reported amino acid sequences for pea nucleoside triphosphatase (NTPase, EC 3.6.1.15) (PIR S48859), which is thought to be an apyrase. |
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Keywords: | Apyrase cytoskeleton NTPase Pisum sativum |
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