title: Hydroquinone: O-glucosyltransferase from cultivated Rauvolfia cells: enrichment and partial amino acid sequences.
abstract: Plant cell suspension cultures of Rauvolfia are able to produce a high amount of arbutin by glucosylation of exogenously added hydroquinone. A four step purification procedure using anion exchange, hydrophobic interaction, hydroxyapatite-chromatography and chromatofocusing delivered in a yield of 0.5%, an approximately 390 fold enrichment of the involved glucosyltransferase. SDS-PAGE showed a M(r) for the enzyme of 52 kDa. Proteolysis of the pure enzyme with endoproteinase LysC revealed six peptide fragments with 9-23 amino acids which were sequenced. Sequence alignment of the six peptides showed high homologies to glycosyltransferases from other higher plants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arend
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Warzecha
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stöckigt
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002845:Chromatography; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D017886:Durapatite; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005964:Glucosyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011926:Rauwolfia / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D017886:Durapatite; D005964:Glucosyltransferases; C405089:hydroquinone - O-glucosyltransferase