scholarly journals The amino acid sequence of ferredoxin from Brassica napus (rape)

1980 ◽  
Vol 185 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Takruri ◽  
D Boulter

The amino acid sequence of the ferredoxin of Brassica napus was determined by using a Beckman 890C sequencer in combination with the characterization of peptides obtained by tryptic and chymotryptic digestion of the protein; some peptides were subdigested with thermolysin. The molecule consists of a single polypeptide chain of 96 amino acid residues and has an unblocked N-terminus. The primary structure shows considerable similarity with other plant-type ferredoxins.

1979 ◽  
Vol 179 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Takruri ◽  
D Boulter

The amino acid sequence of the ferredoxin of Triticum aestivum (wheat) was determined by using a Beckman 890C sequencer in combination with the dansyl–phenylisothiocyanate method to characterize peptides obtained by tryptic, chymotryptic and thermolytic digestion of CNBr-cleavage fragments. The molecule consists of a single polypeptide chain of 97 residues and has an unblocked N-terminus. It shows considerable similarity to other plant-type ferredoxins.


1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 1311-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Laycock

The amino acid sequence of cytochrome c-553, an electron carrier in the photosynthetic apparatus of the unicellular alga Monochrysis lutheri, has been determined. The protein consists of a single polypeptide chain of 83 amino acid residues. The sequence shows homology with mitochondrial cytochrome c at each end of the chain. The N-terminal glycine is not acetylated and corresponds to position 1 of mammalian cytochrome c when the cysteine residues of the two proteins are aligned.


1975 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
R P Ambler

The amino acid sequence of the penicillinase (penicillin amido-β-lactamhydrolase, EC 3.5.2.6) from Staphylococcus aureus strain PC1 was determined. The protein consists of a single polypeptide chain of 257 residues, and the sequence was determined by characterization of tryptic, chymotryptic, peptic and CNBr peptides, with some additional evidence from thermolysin and S. aureus proteinase peptides. A mistake in the preliminary report of the sequence is corrected; residues 113-116 are now thought to be -Lys-Lys-Val-Lys- rather than -Lys-Val-Lys-Lys-. Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequence has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50056 (91 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies may be obtained on the terms given in Biochem. J. (1975) 145, 5.


1975 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
M V Laycock

Cytochrome f was isolated from the brown alga Alaria esculenta and the amino acid sequence was determined. The native haemoprotein has a molecular weight of 9800 and consists of a single polypeptide chain of 86 amino acid residues with a haem group bonded to cysteine residues at positions 14 and 17. The N-terminus is not acetylated and no methylated lysines were found. Sequences of three other algal cytochromes f were compared with that of Alaria and 22 out of 92 positions were common to the four sequences. One-half of these conserved sites occur between positions 49 and 63. Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequence of Alaria cytochrome has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50048 (6 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1975) 145, 5.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 681-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Andrés Rivas-Pardo

Titin — the largest protein in the human body — spans half of the muscle sarcomere from the Z-disk to the M-band through a single polypeptide chain. More than 30 000 amino acid residues coded from a single gene (TTN, in humans Q8WZ42) form a long filamentous protein organized in individual globular domains concatenated in tandem. Owing to its location and close interaction with the other muscle filaments, titin is considered the third filament of muscle, after the thick-myosin and the thin-actin filaments.


1974 ◽  
Vol 143 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Scawen ◽  
Donald Boulter

The amino acid sequence of plastocyanin from marrow was determined. It consists of a single polypeptide chain of mol.wt. 10284 containing 99 amino acid residues. The sequence was determined by using a Beckman 890C automatic sequencer and by dansyl–phenyl isothiocyanate analysis of peptides obtained by the enzymic digestion of purified CNBr fragments. The sequence is in good agreement with the amino acid composition, except that fewer residues of glutamic acid were found in the sequence than were suggested by the composition. Evidence for histidine-37 was weaker than for the rest of the sequence. A ‘tree’ of phylogenetic affinities was constructed by using several higher-plant plastocyanin sequences.


1974 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. M. Ramshaw ◽  
Michael D. Scawen ◽  
Christopher J. Bailey ◽  
Donald Boulter

The amino acid sequence of plastocyanin from potato was determined. It consists of a single polypeptide chain of 99 residues, of molecular weight 10332. The sequence was determined by using a Beckman 890c sequencer and by dansyl–Edman analysis of peptides derived from purified CNBr fragments. The sequence shows considerable similarity with that of Chlorella fusca, and also with the C-terminal region of bacterial azurins.


1973 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Shotton ◽  
Brian S. Hartley

The preparation and purification of tryptic peptides from aminoethylated Dip-elastase and [14C]carboxymethylated Dip-elastase, and of peptic peptides from native elastase is described. A summary of the results of chemical studies used to elucidate the amino acid sequence of these peptides is presented. Full details are given in a supplementary paper that has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50016 at the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Boston Spa, Yorks. LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1973), 131, 1–20. These results, together with those from previously published papers, are used to establish the complete amino acid sequence of elastase, which is a single polypeptide chain of 240 residues, molecular weight 25900, containing four disulphide bridges.


1973 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. C. Hatton

1. Arvin, a commercial preparation of the coagulant activity from the venom of Agkistrodon rhodostoma, is shown to contain a non-coagulant caseinolytic fraction. 2. A method is described for the purification of the coagulant enzyme free from any detectable contaminating protein. 3. The coagulant enzyme is identified as a glycoprotein which probably consists of a single polypeptide chain containing approx. 29% by weight of carbohydrate. Amino acid and carbohydrate analyses are reported and the N- and C-terminal amino acid residues identified. 4. Electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gel reveals the polymorphic nature of the glycoprotein. Five forms of the enzyme are observed. 5. The coagulant action is correlated with an arginine esterase activity and kinetic properties are studied with both arginine and lysine esters as substrates. The inhibitory nature of guanidine and arginine toward the esterase activity is reported.


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