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. 1992 Oct;100(2):1008–1013. doi: 10.1104/pp.100.2.1008

Purification and Characterization of Sucrose Synthase from the Cotyledons of Vicia faba L

Heather A Ross 1, Howard V Davies 1
PMCID: PMC1075657  PMID: 16653008

Abstract

Partial purification (approximately 270-fold) of sucrose synthase (EC 2.4.1.13) from developing cotyledons of Vicia faba L. cv Maris Bead was achieved by ammonium sulfate fractionation and hydrophobic, affinity, anion-exchange, and gel filtration chromatography. Further purification to homogeneity resulted from gel elution of single bands from native and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme was identified as a homotetramer with a total molecular mass of 360 kD and subunits of 92 to 93 kD. Antibodies were raised to both native and denatured protein. The identity of the polypeptide was confirmed in western blots using antibodies raised against soybean nodule sucrose synthase. The enzyme has a pH optimum of 6.4 (cleavage direction) and an isoelectric point of 5.5. The affinity of the enzyme for sucrose (Km) was estimated at 169 mm, and for UDP at 0.2 mm. With uridine diphosphate as the nucleoside diphosphate, the Vmax is 4-fold higher than with adenosine diphosphate. Fructose acts as a competitive inhibitor with an inhibitor constant (Ki) of 2.48 mm.

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