PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 105, Issue 3 975-979, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Plant Biologists
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N-Terminal Amino Acid Sequence of Persimmon Fruit [beta]-Galactosidase
I. K. Kang, S. G. Suh, K. C. Gross and J. K. Byun
Department of Horticulture, Yeungnam University, Kyongsan 712-749, Korea (I.-K.K., S.-G.S., J.-K.B.)
[beta]-Galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) from persimmon fruit was purified
114-fold with a 15% yield using Sephadex G-100 gel filtration, CM-Sephadex
ion exchange, and Sephacryl S-200 gel filtration chromatography, with
subsequent electroelution from nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel
electrophoresis (PAGE) gels. The estimated molecular mass of the native
[beta]-galactosidase by Sephacryl S-200 was 118 kD. After sodium dodecyl
sulfate-PAGE of the enzyme electroeluted from native gels, two subunits
with estimated molecular masses of 34 and 44 kD were observed, suggesting
that the native enzyme was an aggregate of several subunits. Amino acid
composition and N-terminal amino acid sequences of the two major subunits
were different.