Abstract

The purification of glutamate dehydrogenase from sheep rumen mucosa on DEAE-cellulose afforded two enzyme fractions with glutamate dehydrogenase activity. The enzyme fraction II (tissue glutamate dehydrogenase) was freed of contaminating proteins in the subsequent purification step on Sephadex G-200. The approximate relative molecular weight (260 000) of tissue glutamate dehydrogenase (fraction II) was determined by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and the approximate relative molecular weight of its polypeptide chain (48 000) was established by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in SDS. The pH-optimum of fraction II was 7.9. The effect of substrate concentration on the rate of the enzymatic reaction was examined and the following apparent Michaelis' constants were found for the individual substrates: NADH 6.25 . 10-5 mol/l, 2-oxoglutarate 4.5 . 10-3 mol/l, and NH4+ 77 . 10-3 mol/l.

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