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JBC, Vol. 250, Issue 16, 6408-6416, Aug, 1975

Purification of cerebral glucose-6-phosphatase. An enzyme involved in sleep

J. M. Anchors and M. L. Karnovsky

An insoluble phosphoprotein of rat brain acquires radioactivity from inorganic phosphate more rapidly during sleep than during wakefulness. It was purified in two ways. The first was solvent delipidation of brain tissue followed by preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The second was sucrose gradient centrifugation of a brain homogenate to remove myelin, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and adsorption chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex in the presence of sodium deoxycholate. The products were homogeneous within the limits of the analytical methods used. The apparent molecular weight of the phosphoprotein was 28,000 on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels, but was much higher in the presence of sodium deoxycholate. The protein had a high content of aspartic and glutamic acids compared to basic amino acids. Analysis of a base hydrolysate, as well as studies of the kinetics of hydrolysis, showed that the radioactive phosphorus was attached to histidine. The NH2-terminal residue was identified as isoleucine. The phosphoprotein purified by the second method was enzymatically active. When it was incubated in vitro with a 32P-labeled supernatant fraction from rat brain (and later with glucose [6-32P]phosphate), a radioactive phosphorylated protein intermediate was formed. Exploration of the several enzymatic activities of the preparation indicated close correspondence to those reported for the glucose-6-phosphatases of liver and kidney. Glucose-6-phosphatase activity was found in all parts of the brain in the membranous subcellular fractions of neurons. It was shown to be co-purified with the sleep-related phosphoprotein. This report constitutes, we believe, the first complete purification of glucose-6-phosphatase from any tissue and an instance in which a change in the state of a cerebral enzyme has been linked to a normal change in the physiological state of the brain.
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