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(Received for publication, July 3, 1996, and in revised form, October 10, 1996)
From the Department of Biochemistry, College of Biological
Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
This report describes what is, to our knowledge,
the first purification to near homogeneity of an enzyme involved in the
biosynthesis of the teichuronic acid of Micrococcus luteus
cell walls. The glucosyltransferase of M. luteus, which
participates in the biosynthesis of teichuronic acid, was solubilized
from cytoplasmic membrane fragments by extraction with buffer solutions
containing the detergents Thesit (dodecyl alcohol polyoxyethylene
ether; 1 mg/ml) and
3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (0.5 mg/ml). The detergent-solubilized enzyme was purified 150-fold, with a
recovery of 13% by adsorbent column chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, gel filtration, and preparative nondenaturing gradient
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. On the basis of its mobility on
native gradient gel, the glucosyltransferase was estimated to have a
molecular mass of 440 kDa. The purified native enzyme was a
multisubunit protein consisting of subunits of two sizes; their
molecular masses were determined to be 52.5 and 54 kDa, respectively,
by observation of the mobility of the protein bands in sodium dodecyl
sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The isoelectric point of
the enzyme was ~5.
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