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Metabolism and Enzymology

Isoenzymes of Glucose 6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase from the Plant Fraction of Soybean Nodules ¹

Department of Agricultural Chemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2006

Two isoenzymes of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49) have been separated from the plant fraction of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr. cv Williams) nodules by a procedure involving (NH₄)₂SO₄ gradient fractionation, gel chromatography, chromatofocusing, and affinity chromatography. The isoenzymes, which have been termed glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenases I and II, were specific for NADP⁺ and glucose 6-phosphate and had optimum activity at pH 8.5 and pH 8.1, respectively. Both isoenzymes were labile in the absence of NADP⁺. The apparent molecular weight of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenases I and II at pH 8.3 was estimated by gel chromatography to be approximately 110,000 in the absence of NADP⁺ and double this size in the presence of NADP⁺. The apparent molecular weight did not increase when glucose 6-phosphate was added with NADP⁺ at pH 8.3. Both isoenzymes had very similar kinetic properties, displaying positive cooperativity in their interaction with NADP⁺ and negative cooperativity with glucose 6-phosphate. The isoenzymes had half-maximal activity at approximately 10 micromolar NADP⁺ and 70 to 100 micromolar glucose 6-phosphate. NADPH was a potent inhibitor of both of the soybean nodule glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenases.

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