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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 103, Issue 3 903-910, Copyright © 1993 by American Society of Plant Biologists

METABOLISM AND ENZYMOLOGY

Ketol-Acid Reductoisomerase from Barley (Hordeum vulgare) (Purification, Properties, and Specific Inhibition)

J. Durner, O. C. Knorzer and P. Boger
Lehrstuhl fur Physiologie und Biochemie der Pflanzen, Universitat Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany

Ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI, EC 1.1.1.86) was purified to homogeneity from etiolated barley shoots (Hordeum vulgare) using anion exchange, Red-Sepharose, hydrophobic interaction, and chromatofocusing steps. Purification yielded 0.25 to 0.27 mg of pure KARI per 100 g fresh weight of starting material. The specific activity of the purified enzyme was 6 [mu]mol of NADPH oxidized min-1 mg-1 with acetohydroxybutyrate as substrate. The native enzyme had an apparent molecular weight of 115,000 as estimated by gel filtration and appeared to be a homodimer with a subunit molecular weight of 59,000, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The Km values of the purified KARI for acetolactate, acetohydroxybutyrate, and NADPH (determined with acetohydroxybutyrate) were 11, 38, and 4.3 [mu]M, respectively. The Vmax obtained with acetohydroxybutyrate was 1.8 [mu]mol min-1 mg-1; the corresponding value for acetolactate was 0.16 [mu]mol min-1 mg-1. The enzyme showed optimum activity at pH 7.5. When either acetolactate or acetohydroxybutyrate was used as substrate, the experimental herbicidal compound 2-dimethyl-phosphinoyl-2-hydroxyacetic acid inhibited the purified KARI in a time-dependent and reversible manner. The initial inhibition was strictly competitive. The inhibition constant values were 0.46 (using acetolactate as substrate) and 0.19 [mu]M (acetohydroxybutyrate), respectively.




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