Purification and Characterization of Catalase from Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Megagametophytes.
AUTOR(ES)
Mullen, R. T.
RESUMO
Catalase (EC 1.11.1.6) was purified to near homogeneity from isolated megagametophytes of germinated loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) seeds, and monospecific antibodies were elicited in rabbits. Following a procedure that involved acetone extraction, (NH4)2SO4 fractionation, and four chromatographic steps (i.e. DE-52 cellulose, Superdex-200, hydroxylapatite, and phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B), catalase was purified about 140-fold to a final specific activity of 2215 mmol min-1 mg-1 of protein. Cotton isocitrate lyase antibodies were used, and protein immunoblots revealed that the resolution on hydroxylapatite and phenyl-Sepharose allowed for the complete separation of catalase from contaminating isocitrate lyase. The molecular masses of the native enzyme and its subunit are 235 and 59 kD, respectively, indicating that the pine holoenzyme is a homotetramer. Loblolly pine catalase exists as multiple isoforms. When megagametophytes taken 7 d after imbibition at 30[deg]C were extracted, subjected to nondenaturing isoelectric focusing, and stained for catalase activity, at least four catalase isoforms were observed, including one dominant form with an isoelectric point of 6.87. Purified pine catalase is not a glycoprotein and has a ratio of absorbance at 208 nm to absorbance at 405 nm of 1.5. When probed with loblolly pine catalase antibodies, protein blots of cell-free extracts from megagametophytes of mature, stratified, and germinated loblolly pine seeds, the megagametophyte glyoxysomal fraction, and purified loblolly pine catalase all revealed one immunoreactive 59-kD polypeptide. This indicates that no detectable change in the enzyme's monomeric molecular mass occurs during seed stratification and germination, early seedling growth, and purification.
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