Preparation of Uridine Diphosphate-N-Acetylgalactosamine from Uridine Diphosphate-N-Acetylglucosamine by Using Microbial Enzymes
AUTOR(ES)
Yamamoto, Kenji
RESUMO
A method was developed for the large scale preparation of uridine diphosphate-N-acetylgalactosamine (UDP-GalNAc) from uridine diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) by means of microbial enzymes. With Bacillus subtilis cell-free extract as a source of UDP-GlcNAc 4-epimerase, about 35% of the UDP-GlcNAc added was converted to UDP-GalNAc. After the residual UDP-GlcNAc was degraded to uridine triphosphate and N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate with a protamine-treated extract of bakers' yeast as a source of UDP-GlcNAc pyrophosphorylase, UDP-GalNAc was separated by anion-exchange column chromatography. The nucleotide was recovered by adsorption on charcoal and elution with ammoniacal ethanol. The final yield was about 100 μmol.
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