Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 26, 393-395, Copyright © 1985 by Lipid Research, Inc.
Affinity purification of alkylglycerol monooxygenase from rat liver microsomes by chimyl alcohol-Sepharose 4B column chromatography
T Ishibashi and Y Imai
Alkylglycerol monooxygenase of rat liver microsomes was purified
approximately to 97-fold with a 30% yield by procedures including affinity
chromatography on chimyl alcohol-Sepharose 4B. Chimyl alcohol
(1-O-hexadecylglycerol) was converted to the p-aminobenzylidene derivative
and then coupled to 6-carboxyhexyl-Sepharose. The final enzyme preparation
was in nearly a homogeneous state, judging from the results of sodium
dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis, and it migrated to
a position corresponding to an apparent molecular weight of 45,000. The
results revealed that the native form of the enzyme (estimated to have a
molecular weight of 400,000 as judged by Sepharose 6B column chromatography
in a previous report, Ishibashi, T., and Y. Imai. 1983. Eur. J. Biochem.
132: 23-27) will polymerize to large aggregates.