Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 468, Issue 2-3, Pages 243-246Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(00)01176-5
Keywords
myrosinase; epithiospecifier protein; thioglucoside (glucosinolate); thioglucoside glucohydrolase (EC 3.2.3.1 myrosinase); Brassica napus
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Epithiospecifier protein (ESP), a ferrous ion dependent protein, has a potential role in regulating the release of elemental sulphur, nitriles, isothiocyanates and cyanoepithioalkanes from glucosinolates, Two classes of ESP polypeptides were purified with molecular masses of 39 and 35 kDa, and we show that the previously reported instability was conditionally dependent. The 39 kDa polypeptide was made up of two distinct isozymes (5.00, 5.14) whilst several were present for the 35 kDa form of ESP (5.40-5.66). An anti-ESP antibody reacted with both the 39 and 35 kDa ESP forms in Brassica napus and strongly with a polypeptide corresponding to the 35 kDa ESP form in Crambe abyssinica, but did not detect any ESP in Sinapis alba or Raphanus sativus, A cytochrome P-450 mediated iron dependent epoxidation tape mechanism is suggested for ESP, (C) 2000 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
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