Partial characterization of the polyisoprenoid carrier of N-acetylglucosamine in Glycine max (soya bean)

Biochem J. 1980 Aug 15;190(2):255-61. doi: 10.1042/bj1900255.

Abstract

Dolichyl phosphate (C55) and dolichyl phosphate prepared from liver were incubated with an enzyme prepared from soya-bean protoplasts. They both stimulated the transfer of radioactivity from UDP-D-glucose to lipid, but the stimulation was greater with liver dolichyl phosphate. Liver dolichyl phosphate with the soya-bean enzyme stimulated the transfer of radioactivity from UDP-N-acetyl-D-[U-14C]glucosamine to acidic lipid. UDP-D-[U-14C]glucose and UDP-N-acetyl-D-[U-14C]glucosamine were used with the soya-bean enzyme to prepare the glycosylated-acid-lipid acceptor of each sugar. Mild acid hydrolysis revealed that the radioactivity in the lipid glucosylated from UDP-glucose was present exclusively as glucose. That in the lipid glycosylated from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine was present mostly as N-acetylglucosamine. The soya-bean acidic-lipid acceptors of glucose and N-acetylglucosamine were stable to both catalytic hydrogenation and treatment with hot aqueous phenol; they behaved in a similar way as authentic alpha-saturated glucosylated polyisoprenyl phosphates. The soya-bean acidic-lipid acceptors of glucose and N-acetylglucosamine were eluted as deoxycholate complexes from a Sephadex column. In comparison with glucosylated polyisoprenyl phosphates of known size, the patterns of elution indicated that both soya-bean lipids contained a polyisoprenoid chain of 18 isoprene units.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Acetylglucosamine / metabolism*
  • Dolichol Phosphates / pharmacology
  • Glucosamine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Glucose / metabolism
  • Glycine max / drug effects
  • Glycine max / metabolism
  • Lipid Metabolism
  • Plants / drug effects
  • Plants / metabolism*
  • Polyisoprenyl Phosphate Sugars / metabolism*

Substances

  • Dolichol Phosphates
  • Polyisoprenyl Phosphate Sugars
  • Glucose
  • Glucosamine
  • Acetylglucosamine