Differential centrifugation, precipitation with ammonium sulphate and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose led to a twenty-fold purification of glucosyltransferase from Streptomyces aureofaciens B 96. The Michaelis constants for glucosyluridyl diphosphate (UDP-glucose) was 10.8 microM for 1,2-dihydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone (alizarin) 110 microM; the maximum rate of glucosylation reaction was 5.32 mumol per s per mg protein. The pH optimum was at 7.1; the flat temperature optimum was at 30 degrees C. Using some hydroxy derivatives of 9,10-anthraquinone it was found that the production of glucosides from aglycones with alpha-hydroxyl groups was about 1/8 of the values obtained with beta-hydroxyl substrates. In both types of aglycones the presence of another hydroxyl group led to a higher glucoside production.

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Compounds isolated at the Department of Biogenesis of Natural Substances, Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, in 1954-1983