Plant Physiology 91:559-566 (1989)
© 1989 American Society of Plant Biologists
Metabolism and Enzymology
Purification and Characterization of S-Adenosyl-L-methionine:6a-Hydroxymaackiain 3-O-Methyltransferase from Pisum sativum1
Carol L. Preisig,
David E. Matthews and
Hans D. VanEtten2
Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
The isoflavonoid phytoalexin pisatin is synthesized by Pisum sativum in response to microbial infection and certain other forms of stress. An enzyme which synthesizes pisatin by methylating the 3-hydroxyl of (+)6a-hydroxymaackiain (HMK) was extracted from CuCl2-stressed pea seedlings. The enzyme was enriched 370-fold by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, DEAE chromatography, chromatofocusing, and hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC), to a specific activity of 8.2 microkatals per gram protein. Enzyme activity profiles from chromatofocusing and HIC columns suggested the presence of two isozymes, of pl 5.2 and 4.9. Nondenaturing gel filtration of the HIC-purified enzyme gave a single peak of activity at the same elution volume as BSA (66 kilodaltons); the active fractions showed two proteins upon SDS-PAGE, of Mr 66,000 and 43,000. The smaller protein was most abundant in chromatographic fractions containing peak enzyme activity throughout purification. In a partially purified preparation, this 43 kilodalton protein was the only one photoaffinity labelled by [3H]S-adenosyl-L-methionine. The purified enzyme preferred the (+) over the (–) stereoisomer of HMK and other pterocarpans; overall, (+)HMK was the best substrate. Km values were 2.3 micromolar for (+)HMK and 35 micromolar for S-adenosyl-L-methionine. The methyltransferase had a pH optimum of 7.9 and no apparent divalent cation requirement.
2 Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.
1 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMB85-05697. Additional support was provided by the Cornell Biotechnology Program, which is sponsored by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, a consortium of industries and the U.S. Army Research Office.
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