title: A guanosine diphosphatase enriched in Golgi vesicles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Purification and characterization.
abstract: We have recently described a luminal guanosine diphosphatase activity in Golgi-like vesicles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Abeijon, C., Orlean, P., Robbins, P. W., and Hirschberg, C. B. (1989) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 86, 6935-6939). The presumed in vivo role of this enzyme is to convert GDP into GMP. GDP is a reaction product following outer-chain mannosylation of luminal proteins and a known inhibitor of mannosyltransferases. It is hypothesized that GMP then returns to the cytosol. We have purified this enzyme to apparent homogeneity. Following solubilization from a membrane pellet using a buffer containing Triton X-100, the enzyme was purified on a concanavalin A-Sepharose column followed by Mono Q fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) and Superose-12 FPLC columns. After treatment with endoglycosidase H, the deglycosylated active enzyme was applied to a second Mono Q FPLC column and a phenyl-Superose FPLC column. The final enzyme activity was enriched 6500-fold over that of the Triton X-100 extract. The apparant molecular mass of the deglycosylated enzyme is 47 kDa. The purified enzyme is highly specific for guanosine diphosphate, requires Ca2+ for maximal activity, and has a broad pH optimum between 7.4 and 8.2. The apparent Km for GDP is 0.1 mM; the Vmax is 4.9 mmol/min/mg of protein. An enzyme activity with similar substrate specificity has also been detected in membranes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yanagisawa
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Resnick
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Abeijon
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Hirschberg
mesh_terms: D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000201:enzymology*; D007700:Kinetics; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011755:Pyrophosphatases / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D011755:Pyrophosphatases; C010357:guanosine-diphosphatase