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Insight into naphthoquinone metabolism: beta-glucosidase-catalysed hydrolysis of hydrojuglone beta-D-glucopyranoside.


ABSTRACT: In plants, the naphthoquinone juglone is known to be involved in pathogenic defence mechanisms, but it may also take part in plant developmental processes. This naphthoquinone can accumulate in a glycosylated form, namely hydrojuglone beta-d-glucopyranoside. The structural configuration of this compound was shown to be 1, 5-dihydroxy-4-naphthalenyl-beta-d-glucopyranoside by means of MS, NMR and nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy analyses. A hydrojuglone beta-d-glucopyranoside beta-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.21) was purified to homogeneity from Juglans regia L. The enzyme catalysed the release of juglone from hydrojuglone beta-d-glucopyranoside with high specificity and showed Michaelis-Menten kinetics with Km=0.62 mM and Vmax=14.5 microkat/mg of protein. This enzyme also showed a higher activity towards beta-d-fucosyl than beta-d-glucosyl bonds. The purified enzyme had an apparent Mr of 64000 by SDS/PAGE and a pI 8.9 by isoelectrofocusing PAGE. The purified enzyme was inhibited by several bivalent cations, such as Cu2+, Fe2+, Hg2+, and by d-glucono-1,5-lactone, showing non-competitive inhibition of the mixed type.

SUBMITTER: Duroux L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1219583 | biostudies-other | 1998 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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