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Received March 14, 2002
Returned for revision May 27, 2002
Accepted June 5, 2002

Successive Glycosyltransfer Activity and Enzymatic Characterization of Pectic Polygalacturonate 4-{alpha}-Galacturonosyltransferase Solubilized from Pollen Tubes of Petunia axillaris Using Pyridylaminated Oligogalacturonates as Substrates

Kazumasa Akita , Takeshi Ishimizu , Tatsuya Tsukamoto , Toshio Ando , and Sumihiro Hase *

Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1{ndash}1 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560{ndash}0043, Japan (K.A., T.I., S.H.); and Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo, Chiba 271{ndash}8510, Japan (T.T., T.A.)

* Corresponding author; email: suhase{at}chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Polygalacturonate 4-{alpha}-galacturonosyltransferase (pectin synthase) was solubilized from pollen tubes of Petunia axillaris and characterized. To accomplish this, an assay method using fluorogenic pyridylaminated-oligogalacturonic acids (PA-OGAs) as acceptor substrates was developed. When the pollen tube enzyme was solubilized with 0.5% (v/v) Triton X-100 and was incubated with PA-OGA and UDP-galacturonic acid (UDP-GalUA), successive transfer activity of more than 10 GalUAs from UDP-GalUA to the nonreducing end of PA-OGA was observed by diethylaminoethyl high-performance liquid chromatography. This activity was time- and enzyme concentration-dependent. The optimum enzyme activity was observed at pH 7.0 and 30°C. Among the PA-OGAs investigated, those with a degree of polymerization of more than 10 were preferred as substrates. The crude pollen tube enzyme had an apparent K m value of 13 µM for the PA-OGA with a degree of polymerization 11 and 170 µM for UDP-GalUA. The characteristics of the P. axillaris pollen tube enzyme and the usefulness of fluorogenic PA-OGAs for the assay of this enzyme are discussed.




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