scholarly journals Neurotoxins from the venoms of the sea snakes Hydrophis ornatus and Hydrophis lapemoides

1983 ◽  
Vol 213 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Tamiya ◽  
N Maeda ◽  
H G Cogger

The main neurotoxic components, toxins Hydrophis ornatus a and Hydrophis lapemoides a, were isolated from the venoms of the sea snakes Hydrophis ornatus and Hydrophis lapemoides respectively. The amino acid sequence of toxin Hydrophis ornatus a was deduced to be identical with that of toxin Astrotia stokesii a [Maeda & Tamiya (1978) Biochem. J. 175, 507-517] on the basis of identity of the tryptic peptide ‘map’ and the amino acid composition of each peptide. The amino acid sequence of toxin Hydrophis lapemoides a was determined mainly on the basis of identity of the amino acid compositions, mobilities on paper electrophoresis and migration positions on paper chromatography of the tryptic peptides with those of other sea-snake toxins whose sequences are known. Both toxins Hydrophis ornatus a and Hydrophis lapemoides a consisted of 60 amino acid residues and there were six amino acid replacements between them. The taxonomy of sea snakes in the Hydrophis ornatus complex has long been confused, and the above snakes were originally assigned to taxa that proved to be inconsistent with the relationships indicated by the neurotoxin amino acid sequences obtained. A subsequent re-examination of the specimens revealed an error in the original identifications and demonstrated the value of the protein amino acid sequences in systematic and phylogenetic studies. The isolation procedure and results of amino acid analysis of the tryptic peptides have been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50121 (8 pages) with the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies may be obtained as indicated in Biochem. J. (1983) 209, 5.

1978 ◽  
Vol 173 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Carne ◽  
C H Moore

The amino acid sequences of the tryptic peptides of the thiol proteinase actinidin from Actinidia chinensis were determined by the manual dansyl–Edman procedure. There are 12 tryptic peptides, which give a polypeptide chain of 220 residues with a mol.wt. of 23500. An alignment of the tryptic peptides was made by using the X-ray-crystallographic data of Baker [(1977) J. Mol. Biol. 115, 263–277] determined at 0.28 nm resolution on crystalline actinidin. Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequences of the tryptic peptides has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50083 (14 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. (1978) 169, 5.


1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 1032-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Wittmann-Liebold ◽  
H. G. Wittmann

The amino acid sequence of dahlemense, a naturally occuring strain of tobacco mosaic virus, has been determined and compared with that of the strain vulgare (Fig. 7). In this communication the experimental details are given for the elucidation of the amino acid sequences within two tryptic peptides with 65 amino acids.


2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (11) ◽  
pp. 5829-5834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshio Mori ◽  
Mohammed Ali Borgan ◽  
Naoto Ito ◽  
Makoto Sugiyama ◽  
Nobuyuki Minamoto

ABSTRACT Avian rotavirus NSP4 glycoproteins expressed in Escherichia coli acted as enterotoxins in suckling mice, as did mammalian rotavirus NSP4 glycoproteins, despite great differences in the amino acid sequences. The enterotoxin domain of PO-13 NSP4 exists in amino acid residues 109 to 135, a region similar to that reported in SA11 NSP4.


1987 ◽  
Vol 248 (3) ◽  
pp. 933-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Sakai ◽  
F S Sharief ◽  
Y C Pan ◽  
S S Li

Human lactate dehydrogenase B (LDH-B) cDNA was isolated and sequenced. The LDH-B cDNA insert consists of the protein-coding sequence (999 bp), the 5′ (54 bp) and 3′ (203 bp) non-coding regions, and the poly(A) tail (50 bp). The predicted sequence of 333 amino acid residues was confirmed by amino acid composition and/or sequence analyses of a total of 185 (56%) residues from tryptic peptides of human LDH-B protein. The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the human LDH-B coding region show 68% and 75% homologies respectively with those of the human LDH-A. The peptide map and amino acid composition data have been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50139 (7 pages) at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies are available on prepayment [see Biochem. J. (1987) 241, 5].


1975 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
C G Chua ◽  
R W Carrell ◽  
B H Howard

1. A partial amino acid sequence of the α chain from the rat (Wistar, Rattus norvegicus) major haemoglobin is reported. The soluble tryptic peptides prepared from aminoethylated α-globin were separated by peptide ‘mapping’. Sequencing of the tryptic peptides was carried out by the dansyl-Edman method and by the overlapping of smaller peptide fragments derived from secondary enzymic digestion. The insoluble ‘core’ peptides were further digested with chymotrypsin, thermolysin and pepsin to give smaller soluble peptides for sequencing. The tryptic peptides were ordered on the basis of their homology with the corresponding peptides of human α chain. 2. The proposed sequence is compared with that obtained by using an automated sequencer [Garrick et al. (1975) Biochem. J.149, 245-258]. The differences in sequence resulting from the two methods are discussed. 3. It is suggested that the externally situated cysteine (residue 13) is responsible for the observed inhibition of crystallization of rat haemoglobin at alkaline pH. 4. Detailed evidence for the sequence has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50047 (9 pages) at the British Library (Linding Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from which copies can be obtained on the terms given in Biochem. J. (1975) 145, 5.


1992 ◽  
Vol 282 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
A L Newsome ◽  
J W McLean ◽  
M O Lively

Detergent-solubilized hen oviduct signal peptidase has been characterized previously as an apparent complex of a 19 kDa protein and a 23 kDa glycoprotein (GP23) [Baker & Lively (1987) Biochemistry 26, 8561-8567]. A cDNA clone encoding GP23 from a chicken oviduct lambda gt11 cDNA library has now been characterized. The cDNA encodes a protein of 180 amino acid residues with a single site for asparagine-linked glycosylation that has been directly identified by amino acid sequence analysis of a tryptic-digest peptide containing the glycosylated site. Immunoblot analysis reveals cross-reactivity with a dog pancreas protein. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of GP23 with the 22/23 kDa glycoprotein of dog microsomal signal peptidase [Shelness, Kanwar & Blobel (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 17063-17070], one of five proteins associated with this enzyme, reveals that the amino acid sequences are 90% identical. Thus the signal peptidase glycoprotein is as highly conserved as the sequences of cytochromes c and b from these same species and is likely to be found in a similar form in many, if not all, vertebrate species. The data also show conclusively that the dog and avian signal peptidases have at least one protein subunit in common.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Barukab ◽  
Yaser Daanial Khan ◽  
Sher Afzal Khan ◽  
Kuo-Chen Chou

Background: The amino acid residues, in protein, undergo post-translation modification (PTM) during protein synthesis, a process of chemical and physical change in an amino acid that in turn alters behavioral properties of proteins. Tyrosine sulfation is a ubiquitous posttranslational modification which is known to be associated with regulation of various biological functions and pathological processes. Thus its identification is necessary to understand its mechanism. Experimental determination through site-directed mutagenesis and high throughput mass spectrometry is a costly and time taking process, thus, the reliable computational model is required for identification of sulfotyrosine sites. Methodology: In this paper, we present a computational model for the prediction of the sulfotyrosine sites named iSulfoTyr-PseAAC in which feature vectors are constructed using statistical moments of protein amino acid sequences and various position/composition relative features. These features are incorporated into PseAAC. The model is validated by jackknife, cross-validation, self-consistency and independent testing. Results: Accuracy determined through validation was 93.93% for jackknife test, 95.16% for crossvalidation, 94.3% for self-consistency and 94.3% for independent testing. Conclusion: The proposed model has better performance as compared to the existing predictors, however, the accuracy can be improved further, in future, due to increasing number of sulfotyrosine sites in proteins.


1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
WK Fisher ◽  
AT Gilbert ◽  
EOP Thompson

The tryptic peptides of the S-carboxymethylated globin chain ofa dimeric haemoglobin from A. trapezia were purified by high-performance liquid chromatography and their amino acid sequences determined by the dansyl-Edman method.


1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 877-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Wittmann ◽  
I. Hindennach ◽  
B. Wittmann-Liebold

Experimental data for determining a) the amino acid sequences of eight tryptic peptides containing 95 amino acids and b) the order of the tryptic peptides are given. Combining the data of this and of a previous paper the complete amino acid sequence of the coat protein of the TMV strain Holmes rib grass (HRG) is established (Fig. 5). It is compared with three other TMV strains the sequences of which have been determined before (Fig. 6).Differences and similarities between the sequences of the four TMV strains are discussed. HRG has a deletion of two amino acids and it is the most distantly related of the four TMV strains. When the sequence of HRG is compared to that of any of the other strains it turns out that in each case more than 50% of the 156 positions contain different amino acids (Fig. 7).The number of positions with the same amino acid in all strains and mutants so far studied is 30 per cent. These positions are not randomly distributed but clustered mainly in two regions. This finding probably reflects the restriction of amino acid exchanges by the spatial structure of the viral rod.


1975 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Sato ◽  
T Uchida

1. RNAase (ribonuclease) U2, a purine-specific RNAase, was reduced, aminoethylated and hydrolysed with trypsin, chymotrypsin and thermolysin. On the basis of the analyses of the resulting peptides, the complete amino acid sequence of RNAase U2 was determined, 2. When the sequence was compared with the amino acid sequence of RNAase T1 (EC 3.1.4.8), the following regions were found to be similar in the two enzymes; Tyr-Pro-His-Gln-Tyr (38-42) in RNAase U2 and Tyr-Pro-His-Lys-Tyr (38-42) in RNAase T1, Glu-Phe-Pro-Leu-Val (61-65) in RNAase U2 and Glu-Trp-Pro-Ile-Leu (58-62) in RNAase T1, Asp-Arg-Val-Ile-Tyr-Gln (83-88) in RNAase U2 and Asp-Arg-Val-Phe-Asn (76-81) in RNAase T1 and Val-Thr-His-Thr-Gly-Ala (98-103) in RNAase U2 and Ile-Thr-His-Thr-Gly-Ala (90-95) in RNAase T1. All of the amino acid residues, histidine-40, glutamate-58, arginine-77 and histidine-92, which were found to play a crucial role in the biological activity of RNAase T1, were included in the regions cited here. 3. Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequence of the sequence of the proteins has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50041 (33 PAGES) AT THE British Library (Lending Division)(formerly 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. (1975), 145, 5.


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