Pyruvate Carboxylase: The Amino Acid Sequence at the Biotin-Attachment Site of the Enzymes Isolated from Chicken, Turkey and Sheep Liver

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1544-1546
Author(s):  
DENNIS B. RYLATT ◽  
D. BRUCE KEECH ◽  
JOHN C. WALLACE
1973 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Ambler

The amino acid sequence of the cytochrome c′ from Alcaligenes sp. N.C.I.B. 11015 (Iwasaki's ‘Pseudomonas denitrificans’) has been determined. This organism is the only non-photosynthetic bacterium in which the protein has been found. The protein consists of a single polypeptide chain of 127 residues, with a single haem covalently attached to two cysteines. Unlike normal cytochromes c, the haem attachment site is very close to the C-terminus. The amino acid sequence around the haem attachment site is very similar to that of Chromatium vinosum D cytochrome c′. Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequence of the protein has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50022 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 may be obtained on the terms given in Biochem. J. (1973) 131, 5.


1992 ◽  
Vol 285 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
J S Rohrer ◽  
H B White

Serum riboflavin-binding protein, a phosphoglycoprotein from the blood of laying hens, contains two Asn-Xaa-(Thr)Ser sequons in very similar but well-separated regions of amino acid sequence. In order to evaluate the effect of local amino acid sequence on the structure of the attached oligosaccharides, serum riboflavin-binding protein was purified to homogeneity, reduced and alkylated, digested with trypsin, and the two glycopeptides were separated by reversed-phase chromatography. After digestion with peptide-N-glycosidase F the released oligosaccharides were separated by high-pH anion-exchange chromatography and the oligosaccharide profiles of the two glycopeptides were compared. Although the two asparagine residues that are glycosylated are contained in pentapeptide segments in which four out of five amino acids are identical, the array of oligosaccharides present at each site show differences in both type and distribution. This suggests that local secondary or tertiary structure, or the order of glycosylation, influences the oligosaccharide structure more than does the primary structure flanking the attachment site.


1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 665 ◽  
Author(s):  
WK Fisher ◽  
EOP Thompson

Fructose-bisphosphatase has been isolated from sheep liver using affinity-elution chromatography from carboxymethykellulose as the final purification step. The purified enzyme was homogeneous by disc gel electrophoresis.


1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Henschen ◽  
F. Lottspeich ◽  
E. Töpfer-Petersen ◽  
R. Warbinek

The aim of the present investigation is to elucidate the primary structure of human fibrinogen. Through the work of several laboratories including our own large parts of the structure are now known. Here will be reported the complete amino acid sequence of the γ-chain (409 residues). Furthermore, the carbohydrate linkage site in the β-chain and plasmin cleavage sites in the β- and γ-chains have been identified.The peptide chains were isolated by CM-cellulose chromatography following mercaptolysis and alkylation. The γ-chain was cleaved in a way to produce large fragments suitable for automatic sequencing, e. g. with cyanogen bromide or trypsin after citraconylation. The sequences of the isolated fragments allowed reconstruction of the complete sequence of the γ-chain.The carbohydrate linkage site in the β-chain could be isolated by affinity chromatography on concanavalin A-agarose following cleavage of the chain by trypsin or cyanogen bromide. The sequence of 21 amino acid residues around the carbohydrate attachment site was determined.The plasmin cleavage site giving rise to N-terminal glycine in the γ-chain D-fragment was identified. The amino acid sequence linking plasmic fragments E and D in the β-chain was determined.


1993 ◽  
Vol 292 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Lu ◽  
S B Laursen ◽  
S Thiel ◽  
J C Jensenius ◽  
K B M Reid

Bovine conglutinin is a collagen-like, C-type, plasma lectin which belongs to the group of proteins called ‘collectins’. Two inosine-containing oligonucleotides were synthesized, based on the published protein sequence for bovine conglutinin [Lee, Leiby, Allar, Paris, Lerch and Okarma (1991) J. Biol. Chem. 266, 2715-2723], and PCR on target DNA from a bovine liver lambda gt 11 cDNA library yielded a product of the expected size of 210 bp. Screening of the library with this cDNA fragment identified a single positive clone, with an insert of 0.9 kb, coding for bovine conglutinin from residue 70 to the C-terminus. The 5′ cDNA sequence, encompassing 150 bp of the 5′ non-translated sequence plus the sequence encoding the leader peptide and the N-terminal residues 1-70, was completed by the use of PCR techniques. The cDNA sequence of bovine conglutinin showed 86% identity with that of bovine lung surfactant protein D (SP-D), and the derived amino acid sequence of bovine conglutinin showed 78% identity with that of bovine SP-D, which included complete identity of the leader-peptide sequences. The amino acid sequence derived from the cDNA sequence differs from the published protein sequence at four positions. Northern-blot analysis on total RNA, purified from various tissues from cattle, sheep, humans, rats and mice, showed that a strong signal of approx. 1.8 kb is present in bovine liver RNA. A weak signal of similar size was also observed in sheep liver, but not in human, rat and mouse livers. A weak signal, also of 1.8 kb, is present in the lung RNAs of all the species tested. The signals from the lung tissues are likely to be due to the cross-hybridization of the bovine conglutinin cDNA to the SP-D mRNAs of the respective species. The finding of significant signals in only the bovine and sheep liver RNA samples is indicative that serum conglutinin may be present in significant amounts only in members of the Bovidae (the family encompassing cattle, antelopes, sheep and goats) and closely related species.


1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
WK Fisher ◽  
EOP Thompson

The cyanogen bromide fragments of S-carboxymethylated fructose-bisphosphatase were purified. The amino acid sequences of the small fragments were determined by the dansyl-Edman method. The large fragments were subjected to proteolytic digestion to give smaller peptides more amenable for purification and sequencing by similar methods. Enzyme digests of the S-carboxymethylated enzyme gave overlap peptides containing the methionine residues.


1991 ◽  
Vol 274 (3) ◽  
pp. 825-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
R P Ambler ◽  
M Daniel

The amino acid sequence of rattlesnake cytochrome c was originally reported in 1965, and was one of the earlier sequences to be studied. When compared with other mitochondrial cytochromes c, the snake sequence was soon seen to be anomalous. There were several positions in which the snake protein resembled human cytochrome c, although comparable anomalies were not reported for the protein from other reptiles such as lizard and turtle. Explanations of these results have included accelerated evolution in the snake lineage, paralogy rather than orthology, and faulty determination of the sequence, and the rattlesnake is now often omitted from cytochrome c phylogenetic trees. We have re-investigated the sequence of the snake protein, and believe that the correct sequence differs in nine places from that used for evolutionary theorizing since 1965. Four of these differences are near the haem-attachment site, in a region that was only analysed for amino acid composition in the original investigation. The other five differences are towards the C-terminus of the molecule, and can be explained as being due to the wrong ordering of amino acids within peptides that had been satisfactorily purified. Despite these corrections, the rattlesnake cytochrome c sequence still more closely resembles human cytochrome c than it does that of any other protein we know. We believe that this is an example of convergent evolution, although it does appear that there has been accelerated change in the line connecting the rattlesnake to the ancestral vertebrate line. Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequence of the protein has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50162 (16 pages) at the British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa. Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1991) 273, 5.


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