Phosphatidylglycerol biosynthesis in Bacillus licheniformis Resolution of membrane-bound enzymes by affinity chromatography on cytidinediphospho-sn-1,2-diacylglycerol Sepharose.

Cytidinediphospho-sn-1,2-diaclglycerol (CDP-diglyceride) has been covalently linked to Sephrose 4B via adipic acid dihydrazide spacer arm forming an effective affinity chromatography column. This liponucleo-tide ligand and sn-glycero-3-phosphate are subtracts for the formation of 3-sn-phoshatidyl-1'-sn-glycero-3'-phosphate (PGP) catalyzed in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms by sn-glycero-3-phosphate: CMP phosphatidlytranferase (PGP synthetase). Using this CDP-diglyceride Sephrose affinity column we were able to resolve the membrane associated 3-sn-phosphatidyl'1-sn-glycerol (PG) synthesizing system present in Bacillus licheniformis into two activities. A PGP synthetase activity was adsorbed to the affinity column and was eluted using buffer containg CDP-diglyceride; a PGP phosphatease acactivity had no affinity for the column. Both PGP synthase and PGP phosphatase of B. licheniformis were associated with a membrane component of the cell as evidenced by sucrose gradient centrifugation, differential centrifugation, and solubilization by buffers containing detergent...