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The conditions for the quantitative determination of UDP-Gal:glucosylceramide galactosyltransferase and of UDP-Gal:GM2 galactosyltransferase in Golgi-enriched preparations of rat liver were optimized. Triton X-100 was the detergent routinely used as octyl glucoside acted as a galactose acceptor forming octyl lactoside. Manganese ions were required for full activity, but Co2+ and Mg2+ could substitute to some extent. The nucleotide pyrophosphatase activity of the Golgi preparations which interfered with the GL2-synthase assay was inhibited by addition of 20 mM IMP; the latter is without appreciable effect on the rate of GL2 synthesis. Apparent Km values for UDP-Gal were 130 microM and 140 microM with Gl2-synthase and Gm1-synthase, respectively. That for glucosylceramide was 80 microM with GL2-synthase; for GM2 it was 10 microM with GM1-synthase. Competition experiments with variable concentrations of the lipid acceptors showed that the two synthase activities are independent catalytic entities. The specific activity of GM1-synthase exceeds that of GL2-synthase by a factor of ca. 25 under the optimized conditions used here.
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