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Literature summary for 2.4.1.210 extracted from

  • Sim, M.K.; Lim, B.C.
    Purification of limonoid glucosyltransferase from navel orange albedo tissue (1997), Phytochemistry, 46, 33-37.
No PubMed abstract available

Application

Application Comment Organism
nutrition limonoid glucosides are important compounds not only for the processing industry but also for the consumer, bitterness due to limonoids is an important economic problem in commercial citrus juice production, limonoid aglycones are converted to nonbitter glucosides by the GTase, enhancement of the limonoid GTase activity through genetic engineering could reduce aglycone concentration, insertion of a gene encoding for GTase into commercial cultivars could create transgenic citrus varieties producing fruits potentially free of limonoid bitterness Citrus sinensis

Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
PO43-
-
Fragaria vesca

Metals/Ions

Metals/Ions Comment Organism Structure
Mn2+ 0.05 mM stimulates enzyme activity by 66% over basal activity Citrus sinensis

Molecular Weight [Da]

Molecular Weight [Da] Molecular Weight Maximum [Da] Comment Organism
56000
-
Newhall navel orange, SDS-PAGE Citrus sinensis
58000
-
Frost navel orange, SDS-PAGE Citrus sinensis

Natural Substrates/ Products (Substrates)

Natural Substrates Organism Comment (Nat. Sub.) Natural Products Comment (Nat. Pro.) Rev. Reac.
limonin + UDP-glucose Citrus sinensis
-
glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose Citrus unshiu
-
glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose Citrus aurantium
-
glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose Fragaria vesca
-
glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose Citrus maxima
-
glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose Citrus limonia
-
glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
nomilin + UDP-glucose Citrus sinensis
-
UDP + nomilin 17-beta-D-glucopyranoside
-
?
nomilin + UDP-glucose Citrus unshiu
-
UDP + nomilin 17-beta-D-glucopyranoside
-
?

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Citrus aurantium
-
pommelo hybrid
-
Citrus limonia
-
citron
-
Citrus maxima
-
pommelo
-
Citrus maxima
-
grapefruit, pommelo hybrid Oroblanco
-
Citrus sinensis
-
Frost navel orange, Newhall navel orange
-
Citrus unshiu
-
mandarin orange
-
Fragaria vesca
-
strawberry
-

Purification (Commentary)

Purification (Comment) Organism
-
Citrus sinensis

Reaction

Reaction Comment Organism Reaction ID
UDP-glucose + limonin + H2O = glucosyl-limonin + UDP the enzyme purified from navel orange albedo tissue also acts on the related tetranortriterpenoid nomilin Citrus sinensis

Source Tissue

Source Tissue Comment Organism Textmining
albedo
-
Citrus sinensis
-

Specific Activity [micromol/min/mg]

Specific Activity Minimum [µmol/min/mg] Specific Activity Maximum [µmol/min/mg] Comment Organism
0.018
-
-
Citrus sinensis

Storage Stability

Storage Stability Organism
-80°C, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, all acivity is lost Citrus sinensis

Substrates and Products (Substrate)

Substrates Comment Substrates Organism Products Comment (Products) Rev. Reac.
limonin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus sinensis glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus unshiu glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus aurantium glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose
-
Fragaria vesca glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus maxima glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
limonin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus limonia glucosyl-limonin + UDP
-
?
nomilin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus sinensis glucosyl-nomilin + UDP
-
?
nomilin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus sinensis UDP + nomilin 17-beta-D-glucopyranoside
-
?
nomilin + UDP-glucose
-
Citrus unshiu UDP + nomilin 17-beta-D-glucopyranoside
-
?

Subunits

Subunits Comment Organism
monomer 56000-58000, SDS-PAGE Citrus sinensis

pH Optimum

pH Optimum Minimum pH Optimum Maximum Comment Organism
8
-
-
Citrus sinensis

pH Range

pH Minimum pH Maximum Comment Organism
6.5 9
-
Citrus sinensis

pH Stability

pH Stability pH Stability Maximum Comment Organism
6.5
-
activity below pH 6.5 is inhibited by a closed D-ring Citrus sinensis