scholarly journals Standardization of Chromogenic Synthetic Peptide Substrates for Proteolytic Enzymes

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 97-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Svendsen
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (7) ◽  
pp. pdb.prot086231
Author(s):  
Donna Denton ◽  
Sharad Kumar

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
D P Kosow ◽  
M P Esnouf ◽  
A I Gainey ◽  
H A O Hill ◽  
P J Thornally

The chemical mechanism by which vitamin K promotes the posttranslational carboxylation of specific glutamic acid residues in the N-terminal region of prothrombin has not yet been elucidated. We have previously suggested that vitamin K reacts with dioxygen and carbon dioxide to form a species of active carbon. In this study we have investigated the reaction of reduced vitamin K in alcoholic solution with dioxygen in the presence and absence of carbon dioxide. We find that carbon dioxide is necessary for the rapid formation of vitamin K oxide. Vitamin K oxide was formed when either cis or trans vitamin K was used. However, trans vitamin K is specifically required in enzymatic carboxylation studies. We propose that in rat liver microsomal preparations the carboxylation of synthetic peptide substrates is coupled to the chemical epoxidation of vitamin K by the carboxylase.


1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Krarup ◽  
Lauritz W. Olson ◽  
Hans Peter Heldt-Hansen

The extracellular proteolytic enzymes of eight saprophytic, eucarpic, and monocentric isolates from two genera of the order Spizellomycetales and from one genus of the order Chytridiales (Chytridiomycetes) have been partially characterized. The isolectric points of the proteases were estimated from zymograms and demonstrate the existence of three types of proteolytic activity in most isolates. The proteases were tested against synthetic chromogenic peptide substrates and a selection of cations and more complex compounds, and the results suggest that parts of the extracellular proteolytic activities are due to proteases from two groups: the Ca2+ stabilized proteases and the alkaline serine proteases.Key words: serine proteases, metalloproteases, Chytridiomycetes, isoelectric focusing, chromogenic peptide substrates.


1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. S624-S624 ◽  
Author(s):  
TREVOR C.I. WILKINSON ◽  
PETER R. BUNYARD ◽  
KATHLEEN QUIRK ◽  
CLAIRE S. WILKINSON

1988 ◽  
Vol 254 (3) ◽  
pp. 911-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
U Turpeinen ◽  
E Koivunen ◽  
U H Stenman

The inhibition of six serine proteinases by a tumour-associated trypsin inhibitor (TATI) was studied using synthetic peptide substrates. Physiological concentrations of TATI inhibited the amidolytic activities of trypsin, plasmin, urokinase and tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Chymotrypsin, kallikrein and thrombin were also inhibited, but by much higher concentrations of TATI. The ability of TATI to inhibit trypsin, plasmin, urokinase and tPA suggests that it has a role in proteolytic processes in vivo involving these enzymes.


1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Marshak ◽  
Mark T. Vandenberg ◽  
Young Seuk Bae ◽  
Ii Je Yu

1979 ◽  
Vol 179 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
A P Ryle ◽  
C A Auffret

1. The peptidase activities of pig pepsins A and C and human pepsin and gastricsin were compared. 2. The peptides studied had the general formula A Leu Val-His-B. Hydrolysis at 37 degrees C and pH 2.07 occurred at the amino side of the leucine residue for all the enzymes and all the peptides. 3. When A was Ac-Ala the peptides were hydrolysed under these conditions slowly by pig pepsin C only. 4. Pig pepsin A and human pepsin were unable to hydrolyse the tyrosine-containing peptides under the conditions tested. Gastricsin (human pepsin C) had about one-third of the activity of pig pepsin C with these substrates. 5. The increase in the rate of hydrolysis caused by the extension of the chain by a single alanine residue was most marked for pig pepsin A and human pepsin.


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