
Partial purification and identification of GDP-mannose 3", 5"-epimerase of Arabidopsis thaliana, a key enzyme of the plant vitamin C pathway
(2001)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
98(26).
p.14843-14848
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- Beata Wolucka (UGent) , Geert Persiau (UGent) , Jan Van Doorsselaere (UGent) , Mark W Davey (UGent) , Hans Demol (UGent) , Joël Vandekerckhove (UGent) , Marc Van Montagu (UGent) , Marc Zabeau (UGent) and Wout Boerjan (UGent)
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- The first step in the biosynthetic pathway of vitamin C in plants is the formation, at the level of sugar nucleotide, Of L-galactosyl residues, catalyzed by a largely unknown GDP-D-mannose 3 " ,5 " -epimerase. By using combined conventional biochemical and mass spectrometry methods, we obtained a highly purified preparation of GDP-D-mannose 3 " ,5 " -epimerase from an Arabidopsis thaliana cell suspension. The native enzyme is an 84-kDa dimer, composed of two apparently identical subunits. In-gel tryptic digestion of the enzyme subunit, followed by peptide sequencing and a BLAST search, led to the identification of the epimerase gene. The closest homolog of the plant epimerase is the BlmG gene product of Streptomyces sp., a putative NDP-D-mannose 5 " -epimerase. The plant GDP-D-mannose 3 " ,5 " -epimerase is, to our knowledge, a novel member of the extended short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase family. The enzyme was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli cells.
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- BIOSYNTHESIS, PROTEIN, DEHYDROGENASE, MUR1 GENE, CELL-WALLS, ESCHERICHIA-COLI, L-FUCOSE, L-ASCORBIC-ACID, DE-NOVO SYNTHESIS, MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-138840
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- Wolucka, Beata, Geert Persiau, Jan Van Doorsselaere, Mark W Davey, Hans Demol, Joël Vandekerckhove, Marc Van Montagu, Marc Zabeau, and Wout Boerjan. 2001. “Partial Purification and Identification of GDP-mannose 3‘, 5’-epimerase of Arabidopsis Thaliana, a Key Enzyme of the Plant Vitamin C Pathway.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98 (26): 14843–14848.
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- Wolucka, B., Persiau, G., Van Doorsselaere, J., Davey, M. W., Demol, H., Vandekerckhove, J., Van Montagu, M., et al. (2001). Partial purification and identification of GDP-mannose 3“, 5”-epimerase of Arabidopsis thaliana, a key enzyme of the plant vitamin C pathway. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 98(26), 14843–14848.
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- 1.Wolucka B, Persiau G, Van Doorsselaere J, Davey MW, Demol H, Vandekerckhove J, et al. Partial purification and identification of GDP-mannose 3“, 5”-epimerase of Arabidopsis thaliana, a key enzyme of the plant vitamin C pathway. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2001;98(26):14843–8.
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- Wolucka, Beata, Geert Persiau, Jan Van Doorsselaere, et al. “Partial Purification and Identification of GDP-mannose 3‘, 5’-epimerase of Arabidopsis Thaliana, a Key Enzyme of the Plant Vitamin C Pathway.” PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 98.26 (2001): 14843–14848. Print.
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