Partial purification and some properties of lipoxygenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

A partially purified lipoxygenase extract was obtained from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by precipitation with solid (NH4)SO4 at 20% to 80% saturation. The enzyme had two pH optima, at pH 8.0 and 10.0, with respective apparent K m values of 13 and 9.5 μM. At both pH optima, the lipoxygenase demonstrated highest substrate specificity towards linoleic acid, followed by linolenic acid; although the enzyme had less specificity towards mono-linolein than di-linolein at pH 8.0, the reverse was true at pH 10.0.