Studies on Purification and Active Site of Escherichia coli UDP- galactose 4-epimerase

Autor: Chia-Tsung Hung, 洪嘉聰
Rok vydání: 1994
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 82
UDP-galactose 4-epimerase isolated from E.coli ATCC 27797 by using preparative electrophoresis instead of the last three steps of purification showed specific activity of 500 units per milli- gram,two hundred and ninety folds,and overall avarage activity recovery of 7 %.Synthetic diastereoisomers Rp-and Sp- UDPα S- glucose have been seperated by using semipreparative uBondpak C18 column and 50 mM phosphate buffer,pH 6.0 with high performance liquid chromatography.The diastereospecificity of UDP-galactosepimerase.The results showed that the epimerase showed a rigid conformation of binding site around the Pα of the substrate that .Rp-UDPαS-glucose (Km 2.7) seemed to be a much better substrate than Sp-UDPα S-glucose (Km 25).The location of Cysteine around the active site have been tested by reacting with thiol reagentB and diamide.Base on the change in activity and,fluoresence and electrophoresis result,if was tentatively concluded that there are two thiols around the active site and it is far fromother for making a disulfide bond by oxidation.
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