Clostridium stercorarium F-9 pectate lyase Pel9A is a modular enzyme composed of two hypothetical family-9 catalytic modules of the polysaccharide lyases, CM9-1 and CM9-2, in order from the N terminus. In this study, we constructed and characterized CM9-1 and CM9-2 polypeptides as rCM9-1 and rCM9-2 respectively. Both of them, like the full-length Pel9A, required the Ca2+ ion for their enzyme ac...

The polygalacturonase, clearly differentiated from polygalacturonic acid trans-eliminase, produced in the culture fluid of Erwinia carotovora was purified 56-fold by means of acetone precipitation, acetate butfer extraction, and two successive treatments by chromatography on carboxymethyl cellulose. The purified enzyme is specific for nonmethoxylated polygalacturonic acid. It shows an optimum p...

1. The specimen of polygalacturonic acid used in these studies was shown to contain very little neutral sugar, methyl ester groups or ash, and only residues of galacturonic acid. Its electrophoretic homogeneity was examined in pyridine-acetic acid buffer at pH6.5 and in borate buffer at pH9.2. The distribution of effective particle weights was shown to be fairly narrow. 2. The pH-titration curv...

The Golgi apparatus of plant cells is engaged in both the processing of glycoproteins and the synthesis of complex polysaccharides. To investigate the compartmentalization of these functions within individual Golgi stacks, we have analyzed the ultrastructure and the immunolabeling patterns of high-pressure frozen and freeze-substituted suspension-cultured sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.)...

As scored by several specified plating procedures, clinical and environmental strains of Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and Klebsiella pneumoniae "Oxytocum" showed detectable, albeit generally weak, ability to digest polygalacturonic (pectic) acid. None of these bacterial strains had the vigorous and rapid pectolytic activity on these polygalacturonic acid-containing medi...