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Metabolism and Enzymology

Partial Purification and Characterization of Indol-3-Ylacetylglucosemyo-Inositol Indol-3-Ylacetyltransferase (Indoleacetic Acid-Inositol Synthase) ¹

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1312

A procedure is described for the purification of the enzyme indol-3-ylacetylglucose:myo-inositol indol-3-ylacetyltransferase (IAA-myo-inositol synthase). This enzyme catalyzes the transfer of indol-3-ylacetate from 1-0-indol-3-ylacetyl--D-glucose to myo-inositol to form indol-3-ylacetyl-myo-inositol and glucose. A hexokinase or glucose oxidase based assay system is described. The enzyme has been purified approximately 16,000-fold, has an isoelectric point of pH 6.1 and yields three catalytically inactive bands upon acrylamide gel electrophoresis of the native protein. The enzyme shows maximum transferase activity with myo-inositol but shows some transferase activity with scyllo-inositol and myo-inosose-2. No transfer of IAA occurs with myo-inositol-D-galactopyranose, cyclohexanol, mannitol, or glycerol as acyl acceptor. The affinity of the enzyme for 1-0-indol-3-ylacetyl--D-glucose is, K_m = 30 micromolar, and for myo-inositol is, K_m = 4 millimolar. The enzyme does not catalyze the exchange incorporation of glucose into IAA-glucose indicating the reaction mechanism involves binding of IAA glucose to the enzyme with subsequent hydrolytic cleavage of the acyl moiety by the hydroxyl of myo-inositol to form IAA myo-inositol ester.

¹ Supported by grants from the Cellular Biology Section of the National Science Foundation DCB-8805148 and by the Life Sciences Section of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NAGW-97 and NAG 2-362

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