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A highly potent heart stimulant, anthopleurin A, from Anthopleura xanthogrammica was shown to exist as a single polypeptide chain consisting of 49 amino acid residues. The sequence of the peptide was shown to be: Gly-Val-Ser-Cys-Leu-Cys-Asp-Ser-Asp-Gly-Pro-Ser-Val-Arg-Gly-Asn-Thr-Leu-Ser-Gly-Thr-Leu-Trp-Leu-Tyr-Pro-Ser-Gly-Cys-Pro-Ser-Gly-Trp-His-Asn-Cys-Lys-Ala-His-Gly-Pro-Thr-Ile-Gly-Trp-Cys-Cys-Lys-Gln as judged by Edman degradation of the carboxymethylcysteine derivative and the tryptic peptides obtained from the derivative. Although six carboxymethylcysteine residues were present in the polypeptide, no cysteine residues were detectable in the native protein, indicating that there are three cystine residues in anthopleurin A.
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PMID:Amino acid sequence of the Anthopleura xanthogrammica heart stimulant, anthopleurin A. 1 6

The use of derived and synthetic peptides has contributed greatly to our understanding of encephalitogenic determinants in the basic protein molecule. Peptides derived from BP by use of trypsin, pepsin, cathepsin D (brain and liver) and BNPS-skatole have proven most useful. Synthetic peptides have served to define the disease-inducing determinants with precision. A remarkable feature of these studies is that different antigenic determinants serve as encephalitogenic sites in different species. The encephalitogenic sites comprise short peptide domains of the BP polypeptide chain, only 8 residues (rat), 9 residues (guinea pig), and 10 residues (rabbit) in length. In view of the requirement for both haptenic and carrier specificity of an immunogenic molecule, it is impressive that these peptides themselves elicit the autoimmune disease, EAE. While less active than BP on a molar basis, they are nonetheless potent encephalitogens, producing clinical signs in rats and guinea pigs at less than 1 microgram dose. The data indicate that for most animal species (guinea pig, rat, monkey) there appears to be only one major encephalitogenic determinant, an unusual finding in view of the number of antigenic determinants for cell-mediated immunity existing in the BP molecule. Possibly a combination of genetic and anatomical factors may account for this phenomenon. A relationship may exist between multiple sclerosis and EAE as shown by peptide studies; lymphocytes are found in MS patients during exacerbation sensitized to the same region of BP active in the monkey. The major encephalitogenic sites are: Guinea Pig (9) Phe-Ser-Trp-Gly-Ala-Glu-Gly-Gln-Lys(Arg); Rabbit (10) Thr-Thr-His-Tyr-Gly-Ser-Leu-Pro-Gln-Lys; Rat (8) Ser-Gln-Arg-Ser-Gln-Asp-Glu-Asn; Monkey (14) Phe-Lys-Leu-Gly-Gly-Arg-Asp-Ser-Arg-Ser-Gly-Ser-Pro-Hser.
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PMID:Peptides and autoimmune disease. 8 85

Sodium- and potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase (NaK-ATPase) was purified from nasal salt glands of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos). Enzyme of specific activity 2,000 to 2,300 mumol of Pi/mg/hour was routinely obtained by sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment of a microsomal fraction of gland homogenate in the presence of 3 mM ATP followed by pelleting of the enzyme through a sucrose density gradient. Purified NaK-ATPase was stable for over 3 months at -20 degree. By sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and gel filtration chromatography purified NaK-ATPase was shown to contain two polypeptide chains of molecular weight 94,000 and 60,000, the smaller of which was a glycoprotein. Purified enzyme of activity 2,300 mumol of Pi/mg/hour bound 3,600 pmol of ouabain/mg of enzyme protein. Reaction with [gamma-32P]ATP in the presence of Mg2+ and Na+ gave 7,025 pmol of acyl phosphate/mg of enzyme protein. The turnover number calculated from phosphorylation data was 5,460 min-1. Amino acid analysis of the polypeptide components of duck salt gland enzyme after separation by gel filtration chromatography in sodium dodecyl sulfate demonstrated strong compositional homology with highly purified NaK-ATPase preparations from other organs and species. The NH2-terminal amino acid of the 94,000-dalton component was glycine and of the 60,000-dalton component, alanine. With a combination of manual sequencing and automated Edman degradation, the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of the 94,00-dalton catalytic subunit was found to be Gly-Arg-Asn-Lys-Tyr-Glu-Thr-Thr-Ala-()-Ser-Glu.
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PMID:Sodium- and potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase of the nasal salt gland of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos). Purification, characterization, and NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of the phosphorylating polypeptide. 13 47

The mitochondrial F1-ATPase is irreversibly inactivated by the adenine nucleotide analogue, p-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl-5'-adenosine. This inactivation is partly prevented by the presence of bound adenine nucleotides. Inactivations of the ATPase with p-fluorosulfonyl[14C]benzoyl-5'-adenosine were most efficiently accomplished with the nucleotide-free enzyme at pH 7.0, in a buffer containing 20% glycerol. Under these conditions, 4.2 g atoms of 14C are incorporated per 350,000 g of enzyme when the ATPase is inactivated by 90% by its reaction with 2 mM p-fluorosulfonyl[14C]benzoyl-5'-adenosine. Isolation of the component polypeptide chains of the labeled ATPase showed that all of the radioactivity was associated with the two largest subunits. The isolated alpha subunit contained 0.45 g atom of 14C/mol and the isolated beta subunit contained 0.88 g atom of 14C/mol. Hence, the inactivation can be correlated with the incorporation of 14C into the beta subunit. This suggests that the hydrolytic site of the enzyme resides on this subunit. The majority of the radioactivity in a tryptic digest of labeled beta subunit is contained ina tryptic peptide that has the following amino acid sequence: Ile-Met-Asp-Pro-Asn-Ile-Val-Gly-Ser-Glu-His-Tyr-Asp-Val-Ala-Arg, where Tyr is the radioactive derivative of the tyrosine residue that was sulfonylated during the inactivation.
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PMID:Identification of a tyrosine residue at a nucleotide binding site in the beta subunit of the mitochondrial ATPase with p-fluorosulfonyl[14C]-benzoyl-5'-adenosine. 15 Apr 16

1. Human adenylate kinase (isoenzyme AK-1-1) from skeletal muscle is a single polypeptide chain of 194 amino-acid residues with an acetylmethionine at the N-terminus and a lysine at the C-terminus. 2. The primary structure of the enzyme was determined: Ac-Met-Glu-Glu-Lys-Leu-Lys-Lys-Thr-Lys-Ile-Ile-Phe-Val-Val-Gly-Gly-Pro-Gly-Ser-Gly-Lys-Gly-Thr-Gln-Cys-Glu-Lys-Ile-Val-Gln-Lys-Tyr-Gly-Tyr-Thr-His-Leu-Ser-Thr-Gly-Asp-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Glu-Val-Ser-Ser-Gly-Ser-Ala-Arg-Gly-Lys-Lys-Leu-Ser-Glu-Ile-Met-Glu-Lys-Gly-Gln-Leu-Val-Pro-Leu-Glu-Thr-Val-Leu-Asp-Met-Leu-Arg-Asp-Ala-Met-Val-Ala-Lys-Val-Asn-Thr-Ser-Lys-Gly-Phe-Leu-Ile-Asp-Gly-Tyr-Pro-Arg-Glu-Val-Gln-Gln-Gly-Glu-Glu-Phe-Glu-Arg-Arg-Ile-Gly-Gln-Pro-Thr-Leu-Leu-Leu-Tyr-Val-Asp-Ala-Gly-Pro-Glu-Thr-Met-Thr-Arg-Arg-Leu-Leu-Lys-Arg-Gly-Glu-Thr-Ser-Gly-Arg-Val-Asp-Asn-Glu-Glu-Thr-Ile-Lys-Lys-Arg-Leu-Glu-Thr-Tyr-Tyr-Lys-Ala-Thr-Glu-Pro-Val-Ile-Ala-Phe-Tyr-Glu-Lys-Arg-Gly-Ile-Val-Arg-Lys-Val-Asn-Ala-Glu-Gly-Ser-Val-Asp-Glu-Val-Phe-Ser-Gln-Val-Cys-Thr-His-Leu-Asp-Ala-Leu-Lys. 3. When the primary structure of the human enzyme was fitted to the electron density map of porcine adenylate kinase, all nine amino acids which are different in the homologous enzymes from pig and man were located on the surface of the molecule. 4. Precession photographs of crystalline human and of crystalline porcine adenylate kinase corroborated the result that the polypeptide chains of the two enzymes are folded in a closely related manner. 5. The structure of human adenylate kinase incorporates the so-called nucleotide-binding domain which is present in a wide variety of proteins in nature. Some implications of this phenomenom for the molecular biology and the molecular pharmacology of man are discussed.
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PMID:Primary and tertiary structure of the principal human adenylate kinase. 18 54

An improved procedure for automated Edman degradation is presented. Three programs are described, one with double cleavage and two with single cleavage. The programs presented are characterized by a reversed delivery scheme for buffer and phenyl isothiocyanate, and by reduced cleavage times. The modified procedures applied on automated Edman degradation of the vitamin B12-binding proteins human transcobalamin I and human intrinsic factor, containing approximately 390 and 350 amino residues respectively, gave the following N-terminal amino acid sequences: Human transcobalamin I Glu-Ile-Cys-Glu-Val-Ser-Glu-Glu-Asn-Tyr-Ile-Arg-Leu-Lys-Pro-Leu-Leu-Asn-Thr-Met-Ile-Gln-Ser-Asn-Tyr-Asn-?-Gly- Human intrinsic factor Ser-Thr-Gln-Thr-Gln-Ser-Ser-Cys-Ser-Val-Pro-Ser-Ala-Gln-Glu-Pro-Leu-Val-Asn-Gly-Ile-Gln-?-Leu-Met-Glu-Thr- The background accumulation seems to be related not only to the length of the polypeptide chain being degraded, but also to the content of serine (and possibly threonine). A possible N leads to O acyl shift during the cleavage is a tentative explanation. The programs here represented lead to a significant reduction in background compared to conventional programs and allowed considerable prolongation of the degradations.
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PMID:An improved procedure for automated Edman degradation used for determination of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of human transcobalamin I and human intrinsic factor. 18 65

The amino acid sequence of the soluble c-type cytochrome, cytochrome f, from the cyanobacterium Plectonema boryanum (also called Phormidium luridum or Schizothrix calcicola) has been determined. The proposed sequence consists of one polypeptide chain of 85 residues and has three Asn-Gly linkages. Partly due to the presence of these Asn-Gly bonds, which readily undergo rearrangement, proteolytic digestion on the small amount of protein available was unsatisfactory. The structure was determined partly by a combination of chemical cleavage and automatic sequencing techniques. A new technique for conserving material by cyanogen bromide cleavage of residual polypeptide after automatic degradation is described. The possible evolutionary significance of primary structure comparisons with other cytochromes f is discussed.
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PMID:Purification and primary structure of cytochrome f from the cyanobacterium, Plectonema boryanum. 19 28

The complete amino acid sequence of the heme alpha-containing subunit V of bovine heart cytochrome oxidase was determined to be: H2N-Ser-His-Gly-Ser-His-Glu-Thr-Asp-Glu-Glu-Phe-Asp-Ala-Arg-Trp-Val-Thr-Tyr-Phe-Asn-Lys-Pro-Asp-Ile-Asp-Ala-Trp-Glu-Leu-Arg-Lys-Gly-Met-Asn-Thr-Leu-Val-Gly-Tyr-Asp-Leu-Val-Pro-Glu-Pro-Lys-Ile-Ile-Asp-Ala-Ala-Leu-Arg-Ala-Cys-Arg-Arg-Leu-Asn-Asp-Phe-Ala-Ser-Ala-Val-Arg-Ile-Leu-Glu-Val-Val-Lys-Asp-Lys-Ala-Gly-Pro-His-Lys-Glu-Ile-Tyr-Pro-Tyr-Val-Ile-Gln-Glu-Leu-Arg-Pro-Thr-Leu-Asn-Glu-Leu-Gly-Ile-Ser-Thr-Pro-Glu-Glu-Leu-Gly-Leu-Asp-Lys-Val-COOH. The subunit V is a single polypeptide which consists of 109 amino acid residues. The protein contains 48.6% hydrophobic residues and 34.0% hydrophilic residues and it is an acidic protein having a net charge of -3 at neutral pH. The molecular weight of subunit V was calculated to be 12,436 and that for the heme alpha-containing polypeptide was 13,295.
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PMID:Amino acid sequence of subunit V of bovine heart cytochrome oxidase, the heme alpha-containing subunit. 22 Feb 24

The enzymatic transfer of the oligosaccharide moiety from an oligosaccharide-lipid to denatured forms of three secretory proteins--ovalbumin, alpha-lactalbumin, and ribonuclease A--has been demonstrated utilizing a membrane fraction from hen oviduct. Based on a survey of 10 proteins denatured by sulfitolysis, the presence of the tripeptide sequence -Asn-X-Thr-Ser- (X represents a variable amino acid) appears to be necessary but not sufficient for the protein to serve as acceptor in vitro. The results of this investigation also suggest that unfolding of the polypeptide chain is required in order to expose sites for carbohydrate attachment.
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PMID:Enzymatic conversion of proteins to glycoproteins. 26 67

Determination of the amino acid sequence of the immunogenic polypeptides of hepatitis B surface antigen may not only permit molecular localization of the distinct determinants a, d, and y but may also lead to the synthesis of a hapten useful in prophylactic immunization against hepatitis B virus infection. For this purpose, purified monotypic hepatitis B surface antigen of adw subtype was resolved into equal amounts of two major polypeptides (22,000 and 28,000 daltons) and up to six other minor polypeptides by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. With the periodate staining reaction, only the 28,000-dalton polypeptide stained as a glycoprotein. Guinea pigs immunized with the 22,000-dalton polypeptide produced potent antisera against determinants a and d, but the 28,000-dalton glycoprotein did not induce a response. Both polypeptides isolated by preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed amino acid composition identical with that of the intact antigen. For both polypeptides, hydrazinolysis gave Ile as the carboxyterminus, and carboxypeptidase A digestion gave the same terminal sequence, Val-Tyr-Ile. Both peptides also yielded an identical sequence of amino acids in nine steps of Edman degradation--Met-Glu-Asn-Ile-Thr-Ser(Cys)-Gly-Phe-Leu. Our data suggest that hepatitis B surface antigen contains a single major immunogenic 22,000-dalton polypeptide component, part of which is modified by the addition of carbohydrate to give rise to the glycopeptide of apparent molecular weight 28,000.
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PMID:Partial amino acid sequence of two major component polypeptides of hepatitis B surface antigen. 26 93


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