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. 1978 Mar;61(3):369–372. doi: 10.1104/pp.61.3.369

Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (NADP) from Sinapis alba L

Reversible Association of the Enzyme with a Protein Factor as Controlled by Pyridine Nucleotides in Vitro 1

Rüdiger Cerff 1
PMCID: PMC1091870  PMID: 16660295

Abstract

Aggregation of glyceraldehyde-3-P dehydrogenase (NADP) (EC 1.2.1.13) from Sinapis alba seedlings during gel filtration on Sepharose 6B is dependent on the presence of a fraction (“binding fraction”) which can be separated from the enzyme by precipitation with 55% ammonium sulfate. Association of the enzyme with this binding fraction is NAD-dependent whereas NADP+ causes release. Dithioerythritol (2 mM) has no influence on these reversible processes.

Binding fractions, partially purified by ammonium sulfate and acetone fractionation, were submitted to dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. They always contain one or two dominant polypeptides with apparent molecular weights 42,000 and 58,000. The 42,000 polypeptide comigrates during dodecylsulfate electrophoresis with the corresponding subunit of the enzyme. It comprises up to 70% of the total protein in partially purified binding fractions and can be regarded as a major protein in seedling extracts.

The differential transport behavior of glyceraldehyde-3-P dehydrogenase (NADP) on Sephadex G-200 in the presence of NAD+ and NADP+ can be used as a simple and effective purification procedure. The enzyme isolated in this way has an isoelectric point of about 4.5 and maintains under all tested conditions a heterogeneous subunit composition of at least three different polypeptide chains (apparent molecular weights, 39,000, 42,000, 43,000).

The present data suggest that NAD(P)-controlled aggregation of glyceraldehyde-3-P dehydrogenase (NADP) from Sinapis alba L. is due primarily to enzyme association with a separate binding fraction rather than to enzyme polymerization. It is possible that a major component of this binding fraction, the 42,000 polypeptide, consists of “surplus” nonactive enzyme subunits, which self-associate and interact with the NAD-conformer of the enzyme.

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