scholarly journals Studies on Monotreme Proteins. V. Amino Acid Sequence of the a-Chain of Haemoglobin From the Platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus

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.

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.


1975 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 353 ◽  
Author(s):  
RG Whittaker ◽  
EOP Thompson

The amino acid sequence of the 146 residues of the p-chain of the major haemoglobin from the platypus has been determined. The soluble peptides derived from the 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. The tryptic peptides were aligned by homology with other p-globins. There were 14 changes in sequence compared with echidna p-chain.


1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E Kratzing

The amino acid sequence of the a-chain of haemoglobin from M. giganteus has been determined. The soluble peptides formed by tryptic digestion were isolated by gel filtration, ion-exchange chromatography, paper ionophoresis, and chromatography. The amino acid sequences were determined by the "dansyl"Edman procedure. Incomplete hydrolysis of one bond resulted in a large insolublecore peptide containing 40 amino acid residues. The sequence of this peptide was deduced from the sequences of smaller peptides resulting from further digestion with thermolysin and papain. Maleylation of the a-globin before tryptic digestion gave three large fragments which assisted in assigning tryptic peptides to specific areas of the molecule. A special procedure involving maleylation of a chymotryptic digest of globin was used to isolate peptides containing arginine which provided overlap sequences of tryptic peptides


1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 877 ◽  
Author(s):  
RG Whittaker ◽  
WK Fisher ◽  
EOP Thompson

The amino acid sequence of the 141 residues of the IX-chain of the major haemoglobin (Hb-IB) from the echidna has been determined. The soluble peptides formed by tryptic digestion were isolated by gel filtration, paper ionophoresis, and paper chromatography.


1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
GM Air ◽  
EOP Thompson

The amino acid sequence of the jS-chain of haemoglobin from M. giganteus has been determined. The soluble peptides formed by tryptic digestion were isolated by gel filtration, ion-exchange chromatography, and paper ionophoresis, and amino acid sequences determined by the "dansyl"-Edman procedure. Special procedures were necessary for three peptides which were insoluble.


FEBS Letters ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 399 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montserrat Huguet Soler ◽  
Stanka Stoeva ◽  
Cornelia Schwamborn ◽  
Sabine Wilhelm ◽  
Thomas Stiefel ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Vol 327 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. LEE ◽  
Karen L. ALBEE ◽  
Richard J. BERNASCONI ◽  
Tim EDMUNDS

The amino acid sequences of ananain (EC 3.4.22.31) and stem bromelain (3.4.22.32), two cysteine proteases from pineapple stem, are similar yet ananain and stem bromelain possess distinct specificities towards synthetic peptide substrates and different reactivities towards the cysteine protease inhibitors E-64 and chicken egg white cystatin. We present here the complete amino acid sequence of ananain and compare it with the reported sequences of pineapple stem bromelain, papain and chymopapain from papaya and actinidin from kiwifruit. Ananain is comprised of 216 residues with a theoretical mass of 23464 Da. This primary structure includes a sequence insert between residues 170 and 174 not present in stem bromelain or papain and a hydrophobic series of amino acids adjacent to His-157. It is possible that these sequence differences contribute to the different substrate and inhibitor specificities exhibited by ananain and stem bromelain.


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