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Microbe-Plant Interactions

Ethylene Biosynthesis-Inducing Xylanase ¹

II. Purification and Physical Characterization of the Enzyme Produced by Trichoderma viride

Plant Hormone Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland 20705

The ethylene biosynthesis-inducing endoxylanase (EIX) from xylan-induced cultures of the fungus, Trichoderma viride, was purified to near homogeneity and compared with the EIX isolated from Cellulysin. Both enzymes migrate as 9.2 kilodalton proteins during gel filtration chromatography under nondenaturing conditions, but the mature polypeptide migrates as a 22 kilodalton band in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The amino acid composition of the 22 kilodalton polypeptide is enriched by Gly, Ser, Thr, Trp, and Tyr, but depleted in Ala, Glx, Leu, and Lys. Both proteins lack sulfur-containing amino acids. The protein is glycosylated, and inhibition of EIX synthesis by tunicamycin suggests that at least some of the sugar moieties are linked to asparagine residues. EIX appears to be synthesized initially as a 25 kilodalton precursor protein that is processed to 22 kilodalton during secretion.

¹ This work was supported, in part, by grant I-1165-86 from the U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund and by U.S. Department of Agriculture Competitive grant No. 88-37261-3680 to J. D. A. and J. F. D. D.

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