Partial purification of glycerophosphate acyltransferase from Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Snider, M D
RESUMO
Glycerophosphate acyltransferase, a membrane-bound enzyme catalyzing the initial step of phospholipid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli, has been extracted with Triton X-100, a nonionic detergent, and purified 20- to 40-fold. This preparation is free from lysophosphatidate acyltransferase. Glycerophosphate acyltransferase is inactive in detergent extracts, but can be reconstituted by the addition of phospholipid. Under such conditions, the enzyme is associated with phospholipid. The sole product of the reaction with acyl coenzyme A as substrate is 1-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphate. Furthermore, the enzyme shows a marked preference for saturated fatty acyl conenzyme A, implying that this enzyme is responsible for the predominance of saturated moieties in position 1 of E. coli phospholipids. Acyltransferase from two mutants, plsA and plsB, was partially purified and characterized. Results support the view that plsB is a structural gene for the acyltransferase, but suggest that the plsA gene product is not directly involved in phospholipid biosynthesis.
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