High rates of in vitro synthesis of 1,4-β-d-glucan in cell-free preparations from phaseolus aureus

ABSTRACT Progress in the study of biosynthesis of cellulose (1,4-_β_-D-glucan) has been persistently hampered by the low rates of _in vitro_ synthesis obtained using cell-free preparations

derived from plant or bacterial cells capable of ample cellulose synthesis _in vivo_1. We recently reported the achievement of high rates of synthesis of 1,4-_β_-D-glucan from UDP-glucose,

using membrane preparations obtained from the bacterium _Acetobacter xylinum_. The key to the success lay in the discovery of a complex GTP-Ca2+-protein factor-mediated regulatory system for

the A. _xylinum_ UDP-glucose-_β_-D-glucosyltransferase (cellulose synthase)2,3. We now describe conditions found for an extremely efficient transfer of glucose from UDP-glucose to a

cellulosic 1,4-_β_-D-glucan product using enzyme preparations derived from a higher plant, seedlings of mung beans (_Phaseolus aureus_). The rates of enzyme activity achieved approach those

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