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Metabolism and Enzymology

Purification and Preliminary Characterization of Sucrose-Phosphate Synthase Using Monoclonal Antibodies ¹

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7631, Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7631, Department of Botany, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7631

Monoclonal antibodies specific for sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS; EC 2.4.1.14) have been obtained for the first time. Three independent clones have been isolated which inhibited spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaf SPS activity and facilitated the enzyme purification by immunoprecipitation. All three clones were specific for the spinach enzyme but neither inhibited nor precipitated the SPS present in tissue extracts of maize (Zea mays L.), barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), soybean (Glycine max L.), and sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). The inhibition of SPS activity by all three clones was reversible in the presence of UDPG, suggesting the presence of an epitope at the substrate-binding site. Immunoprecipitates of active enzyme preparations consistently revealed the presence of a 120 kilodalton polypeptide, indicating that the enzyme may be a homotetramer with a native molecular weight of about 480 kilodaltons. The occasional appearance of a 52 kilodalton polypeptide in the immunoprecipitates of some enzyme preparations was not the result of proteolysis, was not necessary for enzyme activity, and did not contain an antigenic site as revealed by Western blotting experiments. All three antibodies bind weakly to the SDS denatured 120 kilodalton subunit bound to nitrocellulose. The specific activity of the purified spinach enzyme was determined for the first time to be approximately 150 units per milligram SPS protein (pH 7.5 and 25°C) based on quantitative immunoprecipitation of the enzyme.

¹ Cooperative investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, and the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, NC. Paper No. 11788 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, NC 27695-7643.

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