title: Properties of yeast debranching enzyme and its specificity toward branched cyclodextrins.
abstract: Debranching enzyme was purified from Saccharomyces cerevisiae by DEAE-cellulose, omega-aminobutyl agarose and hydroxyapatite column chromatography. The activity of the eluent was monitored by the iodine-staining method which detects both the direct and indirect debranching enzymes. The elution profiles at every step showed a single peak with no shoulder. The crude and the purified enzyme preparations gave a single activity band with the same mobility on PAGE. The crude product produced 80% glucose compared to reducing sugar from glycogen-phosphorylase-limited dextrin while the partially purified and purified preparations produced 100% glucose. The activity of the purified enzyme was characterized and compared with that of the rabbit muscle enzyme by using various branched cyclodextrins as substrates. Both enzymes hydrolyzed 6-O-alpha-D-glucosyl cyclodextrins to glucose and cyclodextrins, but did not act on 6-O-alpha-maltosyl cyclomaltoheptaose. The yeast enzyme gave rise to glucose as a sole reducing sugar from 6-O-alpha-maltotriosyl cyclomaltoheptaose and 6-O-alpha-maltotetraosyl cyclomaltoheptaose, indicating that maltosyl and maltotriosyl transfers, respectively, had occurred, prior to the action of amylo-1,6-glucosidase. 6-O-alpha-D-Glucosyl cyclomaltoheptaose and 6-O-alpha-D-glucosyl cyclomalto-octaose, respectively, were better substrates than glycogen-phosphorylase-limited dextrin for the yeast and muscle enzymes. The yeast enzyme released glucose at a similar rate from 6-O-alpha-maltotriosyl cyclomaltoheptaose as from 6-O-alpha-maltotetraosyl cyclomaltoheptaose, but considerably lower rates than that from limit dextrin. The yeast debranching enzyme appears to be exclusively oligo-1,4----1,4-glucantransferase-amylo-1,6-glucosidase and does not have isoamylase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nara Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tabata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hizukuri
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D003505:Cyclodextrins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006004:Glycogen Debranching Enzyme System / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology; D006005:Phosphorylases / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D003505:Cyclodextrins; D006004:Glycogen Debranching Enzyme System; D006005:Phosphorylases