scholarly journals Studies on Marsupial Proteins IV. Amino Acid Sequence of Myoglobin From the Red Kangaroo, Megaleia Rufa

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
GM Air ◽  
EOP Thompson

Myoglobin isolated from skeletal muscle of M. rufa consists of a single component containing 153 amino acid residues. The complete amino acid sequence has been determined. Oleavage with cyanogen bromide gave four polypeptides which were further fragmented by digestion with trypsin or chymotrypsin. The amino acid sequences of the peptides obtained were determined by the "dansyl"-Edman procedure. The order of the cyanogen bromide fragments was readily deduced from terminal sequences. Digestion of maleylated myoglobin with trypsin and cleavage at histidine residues with N-bromosuccinimide gave some overlapping sequences. Amino acid sequences in myoglobins are more conservative than in the ,B-chains of haemoglobin previously studied (Air and Thompson 1969) but the red kangaroo myoglobin shows more variation in amino acid sequence than has been found in myoglobins from other species.

1975 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
J M Wilkinson ◽  
R J A. Grand

The complete amino acid sequence of rabbit skeletal muscle troponin I was determined by the isolation of the cyanogen bromide fragments and the tryptic methionine-containing peptides. Troponin I contains 179 amino acid residues and has a molecular weight of 20864. Its N-terminus is acetylated. Detailed evidence on which the sequence is based has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50055 (23 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7QB, U.K., from whom copies may be obtained on the terms given in Biochem. J. (1975) 145, 5.


1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
WK Fisher ◽  
EOP Thompson

Myoglobin isolated from skeletal. muscle of the platypus contains 153 amino acid residues. lhe complete amino acid sequence has been determined following cleavage with cyanogen bromide and further digestion of the four fragments with trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin and thermolysin. Sequences of the purified peptides were determined by the dansyl-Edman procedure. The amino acid sequence showed 25 differences from human myoglobin and 24 from kangaroo myoglobin. Amino acid sequences in myoglobins are more conserved than sequences in the exand fi-globin chains, and platypus myoglobin shows a similar number of variations in sequence to kangaroo myoglobin when compared with myoglobin of other species. The date of divergence of the platypus from other mammals was estimated at 102 � 31 million years, based on the number of amino acid differences between species and allowing for multiple mutations during the evolutionary period. This estimate differs widely from the estimate given by similar treatment of the ex- and fi-chain sequences and a constant rate of mutation .of globin chains is not supported.


1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 803-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Kluh ◽  
Ladislav Morávek ◽  
Manfred Pavlík

Cyanogen bromide fragment CB5 represents the region of the polypeptide chain of hemopexin between the fourth and fifth methionine residue (residues 232-352). It contains 120 amino acid residues in the following sequence: Arg-Cys-Ser-Pro-His-Leu-Val-Leu-Ser-Ala-Leu-Thr-Ser-Asp-Asn-His-Gly-Ala-Thr-Tyr-Ala-Phe-Ser-Gly-Thr-His-Tyr-Trp-Arg-Leu-Asp-Thr-Ser-Arg-Asp-Gly-Trp-His-Ser-Trp-Pro-Ile-Ala-His-Gln-Trp-Pro-Gln-Gly-Pro-Ser-Ala-Val-Asp-Ala-Ala-Phe-Ser-Trp-Glu-Glu-Lys-Leu-Tyr-Leu-Val-Gln-Gly-Thr-Gln-Val-Tyr-Val-Phe-Leu-Thr-Lys-Gly-Gly-Tyr-Thr-Leu-Val-Ser-Gly-Tyr-Pro-Lys-Arg-Leu-Glu-Lys-Glu-Val-Gly-Thr-Pro-His-Gly-Ile-Ile-Leu-Asp-Ser-Val-Asp-Ala-Ala-Phe-Ile-Cys-Pro-Gly-Ser-Ser-Arg-Leu-His-Ile-Met. The sequence was derived from the data on peptides prepared by cleavage of fragment CB5 by mild acid hydrolysis, by trypsin and chymotrypsin.


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.


1986 ◽  
Vol 236 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
G A Russell ◽  
B Dunbar ◽  
L A Fothergill-Gilmore

The complete amino acid sequence of chicken skeletal-muscle enolase, comprising 433 residues, was determined. The sequence was deduced by automated sequencing of hydroxylamine-cleavage, CNBr-cleavage, o-iodosobenzoic acid-cleavage, clostripain-digest and staphylococcal-proteinase-digest fragments. The presence of several acid-labile peptide bonds and the tenacious aggregation of most CNBr-cleavage fragments meant that a commonly used sequencing strategy involving initial CNBr cleavage was unproductive. Cleavage at the single Asn-Gly peptide bond with hydroxylamine proved to be particularly useful. Comparison of the sequence of chicken enolase with the two yeast enolase isoenzyme sequences shows that the enzyme is strongly conserved, with 60% of the residues identical. The histidine and arginine residues implicated as being important for the activity of yeast enolase are conserved in the chicken enzyme. Secondary-structure predictions are analysed in an accompanying paper [Sawyer, Fothergill-Gilmore & Russell (1986) Biochem. J. 236, 127-130].


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.


1971 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet C. Miller ◽  
S. G. Waley

1. The nature of the subunits in rabbit muscle triose phosphate isomerase has been investigated. 2. Amino acid analyses show that there are five cysteine residues and two methionine residues/subunit. 3. The amino acid sequences around the cysteine residues have been determined; these account for about 75 residues. 4. Cleavage at the methionine residues with cyanogen bromide gave three fragments. 5. These results show that the subunits correspond to polypeptide chains, containing about 230 amino acid residues. The chains in triose phosphate isomerase seem to be shorter than those of other glycolytic enzymes.


1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 591 ◽  
Author(s):  
RG Whittaker ◽  
EOP Thompson

Blood from the platypus contained three haemoglobins which were separated by chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex. The major component, Hb-I, was converted to globin and fractionated into the oc-and p-chains by chromatography on eM-cellulose in 8M urea-thiol buffers, and the complete amino acid sequence of the 141 residues of the oc-chain were determined. Peptides derived from the oc-chain by tryptic digestion were isolated by paper ionophoresis and chromatography. The amino acid sequences were determined by the dansyl-Edman procedure or by further digestion with other enzymes.


1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 263 ◽  
Author(s):  
RJ Simpson ◽  
BE Davidson

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from leg muscle of M. rufa has been extracted and purified. The reaction of the enzyme with iodoacetate, the amino acid composition, tryptic fingerprint, and some amino acid sequences (in-cluding that around the reactive cysteine) indicate that kangaroo glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is almost identical with pig glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase.


1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
AR Nash ◽  
WK Fisher ◽  
EOP Thompson

The amino acid sequence of the a-chain of the principal haemoglobin from the shark, H. portusjacksoni has been determined. The chain has 148 residues and is acetylated at the amino terminal. The soluble peptides obtained by tryptic and chymotryptic digestion of the protein or its cyanogen bromide fragments were isolated by gel filtration, paper ionophoresis and paper chromatography. The amino acid sequences were determined by the dansyl-Edman procedure. The insoluble 'core' peptide from the tryptic digestion contained 34 residues and required cleavage by several proteases before the sequence was established. Compared with human a-chain there are 88 amino acid differences including the additional seven residues which appear on the amino terminal of the shark chain. There is also one deletion and one insertion. The chain contains no tryptophan but has four cysteinyl residues which is the highest number of such residues recorded for a vertebrate globin.


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