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. 1984 Mar 15;218(3):745–751. doi: 10.1042/bj2180745

A kinetic comparison of partially purified rat liver Golgi and rat serum galactosyltransferases.

M R Pâquet, M A Moscarello
PMCID: PMC1153402  PMID: 6426461

Abstract

UDP-galactose: N-acetylglucosamine beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase was partially purified from rat liver Golgi membranes and rat serum. The kinetic parameters of the two enzymes isolated by affinity chromatography were compared with each other and with those for commercial bovine milk galactosyltransferase. When N-acetyl-glucosamine was the acceptor the Km values for UDP-galactose were 65,52 and 43 microM for the rat liver Golgi, rat serum and bovine milk enzymes respectively. The Km values for N-acetylglucosamine were 0.33, 1.49 and 0.5 mM for the three enzymes respectively. The Km values for UDP-galactose, with glucose as acceptor in the presence of 1 mg of alpha-lactalbumin, were 23, 9.0 and 60 microM for the three enzymes respectively, and the Km values for glucose were 2.3, 1.8 and 2.0 mM respectively. The effects of alpha-lactalbumin in both the lactosamine synthetase and lactose synthetase reactions were similar. The activation energies were 94.0 kJ/mol (22.5 kcal/mol) and 96.0 kJ/mol (22.9 kcal/mol) for the Golgi and serum enzymes respectively. Although some differences in Km values were observed between the rat liver Golgi and serum enzymes, the values obtained suggest a high degree of similarity between the kinetic properties of the three galactosyltransferases.

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