title: The phosphohydrolase component of the hepatic microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase system is a 36.5-kilodalton polypeptide.
abstract: The phosphohydrolase component of the microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase system has been identified as a 36.5-kDa polypeptide by 32P-labeling of the phosphoryl-enzyme intermediate formed during steady-state hydrolysis. A 36.5-kDa polypeptide was labeled when disrupted rat hepatic microsomes were incubated with three different 32P-labeled substrates for the enzyme (glucose-6-P, mannose-6-P, and PPi) and the reaction terminated with trichloroacetic acid. Labeling of the phosphoryl-enzyme intermediate with [32P]glucose-6-P was blocked by several well-characterized competitive inhibitors of glucose-6-phosphatase activity (e.g. Al(F)-4 and Pi) and by thermal inactivation, and labeling was not seen following incubations with 32Pi and [U-14C]glucose-6-P. In agreement with steady-state dictates, the amount of [32P]phosphoryl intermediate was directly and quantitatively proportional to the steady-state glucose-6-phosphatase activity measured under a variety of conditions in both intact and disrupted hepatic microsomes. The labeled 36.5-kDa polypeptide was specifically immunostained by antiserum raised in sheep against the partially purified rat hepatic enzyme, and the antiserum quantitatively immunoprecipitated glucose-6-phosphatase activity from cholate-solubilized rat hepatic microsomes. [32P]Glucose-6-P also labeled a similar-sized polypeptide in hepatic microsomes from sheep, rabbit, guinea pig, and mouse and rat renal microsomes. The glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme appears to be a minor protein of the hepatic endoplasmic reticulum, comprising about 0.1% of the total microsomal membrane proteins. The centrifugation of sodium dodecyl sulfate-solubilized membrane proteins was found to be a crucial step in the resolution of radiolabeled microsomal proteins by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Countaway
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Waddell
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burchell
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Arion
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D007163:Immunosorbent Techniques; D007668:Kidney / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012756:Sheep
chemical_list: D005952:Glucose-6-Phosphatase