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A Multisubunit Acetyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase from Soybean1

Sergei Reverdatto, Vadim Beilinson, and Niels C. Nielsen*

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, and Departments of Agronomy and Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1150

A multisubunit form of acetyl coenzyme A (CoA) carboxylase (ACCase) from soybean (Glycine max) was characterized. The enzyme catalyzes the formation of malonyl CoA from acetyl CoA, a rate-limiting step in fatty acid biosynthesis. The four known components that constitute plastid ACCase are biotin carboxylase (BC), biotin carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP), and the alpha - and beta -subunits of carboxyltransferase (alpha - and beta -CT). At least three different cDNAs were isolated from germinating soybean seeds that encode BC, two that encode BCCP, and four that encode alpha -CT. Whereas BC, BCCP, and alpha -CT are products of nuclear genes, the DNA that encodes soybean beta -CT is located in chloroplasts. Translation products from cDNAs for BC, BCCP, and alpha -CT were imported into isolated pea (Pisum sativum) chloroplasts and became integrated into ACCase. Edman microsequence analysis of the subunits after import permitted the identification of the amino-terminal sequence of the mature protein after removal of the transit sequences. Antibodies specific for each of the chloroplast ACCase subunits were generated against products from the cDNAs expressed in bacteria. The antibodies permitted components of ACCase to be followed during fractionation of the chloroplast stroma. Even in the presence of 0.5 M KCl, a complex that contained BC plus BCCP emerged from Sephacryl 400 with an apparent molecular mass greater than about 800 kD. A second complex, which contained alpha - and beta -CT, was also recovered from the column, and it had an apparent molecular mass of greater than about 600 kD. By mixing the two complexes together at appropriate ratios, ACCase enzymatic activity was restored. Even higher ACCase activities were recovered by mixing complexes from pea and soybean. The results demonstrate that the active form of ACCase can be reassembled and that it could form a high-molecular-mass complex.

1   This research was supported in part by American Soybean Association grant no. SPR-2305 to N.C.N.
*   Corresponding author; e-mail nnielsen{at}dept.agry.purdue.edu; fax 1-765-494-6508.

Plant Physiol. (1999) 119: 961-978
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