Primary structure of the N-terminal region (1-95) of thermitase, a thermostable proteinase from Thermoactinomyces vulgaris

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 1835-1845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bedřich Meloun ◽  
Miroslav Baudyš ◽  
Vladimír Kostka ◽  
Gert Hausdorf ◽  
Wolfgang Ernst Höhne

The 95-residue N-terminal amino acid sequence of thermitase, a thermostable serine proteinase from T. vulgaris, is the following: Tyr-Thr-Pro-Asn-Asp-Pro-Tyr-Phe-Ser-Ser-Arg-Gln-Tyr-Gly-Pro-Gln-Lys-Ile-Gln-Ala-Pro-Gln-Ala-Trp-Asp-Ile-Ala-Glu-Gly-Ser-Gly-Ala-Lys-Ile-Ala-Ile-Val-Asp-Thr-Gly-Val-Gln-Ser-Asn-His-Pro-Asp-Leu-Ala-Gly-Lys-Val-Val-Gly-Gly-Trp-Asp-Phe-Val-Asp-Asn-Asp-Ser-Thr-Pro-Gln-Asn-Gly-Asn-Gly-His-Gly-Thr-His-Cys-Ala-Gly-Ile-Ala-Ala-Ala-Val-Thr-Asn-Asn-Ser-Thr-Gly-Ile-Ala-Gly-Thr-Ala-Pro-Lys. The sequential data were obtained by analyses of peptides isolated from the soluble part of the tryptic digest of the N-terminal cyanogen bromide fragment of the enzyme and from the chymotryptic digest of a thermitase fragment obtained by 2-nitro-5-thiocyanobenzoate cleavage of the enzyme at its single cysteine residue.

1976 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
D V. Marinkovic ◽  
J N. Marinkovic

Aminoethylated β-galactosidase from Escherichia coli was cleaved by CNBr. The fragment C4a was purified by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. The molecular weight of the fragment C4a was determined to be 9000 +/- 600. The N-terminal amino acid was found to be isoleucine. Qualitative examination of homogeneity was carried out by disc-gel electrophoresis. The fragment C4a was shown to be active as an α donor in complementation of β-galactosidase activity in vitro with E. coli mutant M15, which has a deletion in the α region of the z gene. The molecular weights of complementable fractions from mutant M15 were found to be 123 000 +/- 2500 and 507 000 +/- 11 000, and of the complemented enzyme 522 500 +/- 11 400.


Author(s):  
Chi-Ming Wei ◽  
Margaret Hukee ◽  
Christopher G.A. McGregor ◽  
John C. Burnett

C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) is a newly identified peptide that is structurally related to atrial (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). CNP exists as a 22-amino acid peptide and like ANP and BNP has a 17-amino acid ring formed by a disulfide bond. Unlike these two previously identified cardiac peptides, CNP lacks the COOH-terminal amino acid extension from the ring structure. ANP, BNP and CNP decrease cardiac preload, but unlike ANP and BNP, CNP is not natriuretic. While ANP and BNP have been localized to the heart, recent investigations have failed to detect CNP mRNA in the myocardium although small concentrations of CNP are detectable in the porcine myocardium. While originally localized to the brain, recent investigations have localized CNP to endothelial cells consistent with a paracrine role for CNP in the control of vascular tone. While CNP has been detected in cardiac tissue by radioimmunoassay, no studies have demonstrated CNP localization in normal human heart by immunoelectron microscopy.


1973 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Chrétien ◽  
Claude Gilardeau

ABSTRACT A protein isolated from ovine pituitary glands has been purified, and its homogeneity assessed by NH2- and COOH-terminal amino acid determination, ultracentrifugation studies, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after carboxymethylation. Its chemical and immunochemical properties are closely similar to those of beef and pork neurophysins, less similar to those of human neurophysins. It contains no tryptophan (like other neurophysins) or histidine (like all except bovine neurophysin-I and human neurophysins). It has alanine at the NH2-terminus and valine at the COOH-terminus. Its amino acid composition is similar to, but not identical with those of porcine and bovine neurophysins.


1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1144-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Baudyš ◽  
Helena Keilová ◽  
Vladimír Kostka

To determine the primary structure of the C-terminal part of the molecule of chicken pepsinogen the tryptic, chymotryptic and thermolytic digest of the protein were investigated and peptides derived from this region were sought. These peptides permitted the following 21-residue C-terminal sequence to be determined: ...Ile-Arg-Glu-Tyr-Tyr-Val-Ile-Phe-Asp-Arg-Ala-Asn-Asn-Lys-Val-Gly-Leu-Ser-Pro-Leu-Ser.COOH. A comparison of this structure with the C-terminal sequential regions of the other acid proteases shows a high degree of homology between chicken pepsinogen and these proteases (e.g., the degree of homology with respect to hog pepsinogen and calf prochymosin is about 66%). Additional tryptic peptides, derived from the N-terminal part of the zymogen molecule whose amino acid sequence has been reported before, were also obtained in this study. This sequence was extended by two residues using an overlapping peptide. An ancillary result of this study was the isolation of tryptic peptides derived from other regions of the zymogen molecule.


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