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Query: EC:3.1.26.9 (ribonuclease)
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The action of Armillaria mellea protease has been evaluated on a number of polypeptide substrates. It has been shown to split the Pro7-Lys8 bonds in both native and oxidised lysine-vasopressin and the Ser11-Lys12 bond in glucagon. No other splits were detected in these substrates. The enzyme also caused extensive degradation of S-carboxymethyl lysozyme, S-carcoxymethyl pepsinogen and oxidised ribonuclease. A. In each case the only new amino-terminal residue to appear was lysine. A. mellea protease was inhibited by the chelating agents 1,10-phenanthroline, alpha, alpha'-bipyridine and imidazole. The pK1 values (negative log10 of concentration required for 50% inhibition) for these three inhibitors were 3.9, 3.4 and 1.1, respectively. Lysine, S-2-aminoethylcysteine and short chain aliphatic amines also proved to be relatively good inhibitors of A. mellea protease while arginine was a poor inhibitor.
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PMID:Specificity and inhibition studies of Armillaria mellea protease. 2 49

The allosteric model for ribonuclease activity by Walker, Ralston & Darvey [(1975) Biochem.J. 147, 425--433; (1976) Biochem.J. 153, 329--337] involves the binding of a large number of molecules of substrate or substrate analogue to a series of allosteric sites on the enzyme. In the present paper, the nature of these allosteric interactions is investigated. The effects of ionic strength pH carbamoylation of lysine to homocitrulline and of deamidation of glutamine and asparagine on plots of velocity versus substrate concentration are examined and evidence is presented that the allosteric transition involves an electrostatic interaction between the negatively charged substrate molecules and the cationic groups on the enzyme.
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PMID:The nature of the allosteric interactions of ribonuclease and its ligands. 2 30

The ribonuclease A derivative Npi-[13C1]carboxymethyl-histine-119 ribonuclease prepared by using [13C1]bromoacetate as alkylating reagent has been investigated with high resolution 13C NMR spectroscopy. In the 13C NMR spectra two carbon resonances of relatively high intensity appear which can be assigned to carboxyl groups attached to His-119 and Met-30, their intensity ratio being 10 : 1. The pH dependence of the carbon resonance of the carboxy-methyl group bound to the Npi of His-119 differs in the absence and presence of Cyd-2'-P, thus indicating that the catalytically inactive derivative does bind nucleotides. A mechanism of the alkylation reaction at pH 5.6 is proposed in which the epsilon-amino group of Lys-41 acts as the binding site for the carboxyl group of bromoacetate pushing the bromomethylene group towards the Npi of His-119 or the Ntau of His-12.
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PMID:13C NMR investigations on Npi-[13C1]carboxymethyl-histidine-119 ribonuclease. 3 23

Ethyl bromoacetimidate was designed as a potential reagent for cross-linking protein NH2 groups with a vicinal nucleophile. The chemical properties of this compound were studied by model reactions with small molecules. Ethyl bromoacetimidate amidinates lysine residues in ribonuclease at pH 9. In a second step, at lower pH values, one of the bromoacetamidino groups bound to the enzyme alkylates a proximal histidine residue. This substitution is pH-dependent with a sharp optimum at 5.6, the same as was earlier observed for alkylation of histidine-119: histidine-12 by halogenoacetates and halogenoacetamides. A common mechanism is suggested for all these types of alkylation. Ethyl bromoacetimidate thus appears as a short-distance crosslinker which can be used, for example, to explore chemically the microenvironment of an essential lysine residue of an enzyme within the active site.
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PMID:Ethyl bromoacetimidate, a NH2-specific heterobifunctional reagent. Model reactions with ribonuclease. 4 7

M protein was extracted from type 24, group A streptococci with pepsin at pH 5.8 and was further purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, ribonuclease digestion, ion-exchange chromatography, and isoelectric focusing. The purified pepsin extract of M (pep M) protein was shown to be free of nontype-specific immunoreactivity in (a) complement fixation tests with heterologous M antiserum, (b) skin tests in normal adult guinea pigs, and (c) passive hemagglutination tests for the presence of lipoteichoic acid sensitizing or antigenic activity. The pep M24 was highly immunogenic; two of three rabbits developed opsonic antibody titers of 1:256 and the third a titer of 1:32 6 wk after a single injection of 100-pg doses of pep M24 emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant. The antisera lacked nontype-specific antibodies and produced single precipitin lines in agar gel diffusion tests against crude HC1 extracts of the homologous M protein. Thus, the type-specific antigenic determinant(s) of type 24 M protein appears to be separable from immunotoxic, cross-reactive antigens without loss of immunogenicity in rabbits. The mobility of pep M24 upon electrophoresis in 10 percent sodium dodecyl sulfate pelyacrylamide gel was consistent with an average mol wt of 33,500 daltons. Amino acid analysis demonstrated a predominance of alanine, followed by glutamic acid, lysine, leucine, and aspartic acid. Pep M24 contained an estimated six to seven methionine residues and approximately ten phenylalanine residues per molecule. No other aromatic amino acids were detected. Automatic Edman degradation of pep M24 yielded the sequence of the first 29 amino acids (the amino terminal amino acid being valine) of the amino terminal region of the molecule. The detection of only one new amino acid at each step of Edman degradation confirmed the homogeneity of the purified pep M24.
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PMID:Purification and properties of M protein extracted from group A streptococci with pepsin: covalent structure of the amino terminal region of type 24 M antigen. 32 68

EDTA binds at the active site of ribonuclease causing a selective downfield shift of the C2 proton resonance of His 12 at pH 5.5 (pH denotes an uncorrected glass electrode pH meter reading of a 2H2O solution). A dissociation constant for EDTA binding to ribonuclease of 1.70 mM was calculated from this chemical shift change. The pKa of His 12 increased from 5.79 in ribonuclease alone to 6.73 in the RNAase . EDTA complex. Compared to these effects, the other histidine residues were not significantly affected by EDTA. EDTA was shown to act as a competitive inhibitor of cytidine 2',3'-cyclic phosphate hydrolysis by ribonuclease with a Ki of 1.37 mM at pH 5.5, 25 degrees C. Molecular model building suggests that three of the four carboxyl groups of EDTA could simultaneously interact with histidine 12, lysine 41 and lysine 7. A complex of this type would account for the data described herein.
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PMID:1H NMR studies of the binding of EDTA to bovine pancreatic ribonuclease. 41 52

Cell-free protein synthesizing systems were prepared from the livers of chick embryos at selected ages and the characteristics of individual fractions were compared. While polysomes showed decreasing size with older embryos, isolated polysomes did not differ significantly in amino acid incorporating activity when assayed with standard cell sap. When assayed with standard polysomes, cell sap activity decreased with increasing developmental age whether incorporation was measured using (3H)lysine, (3H)leucine, or [3H]aminoacyl-tRNA. Free amino acid concentrations in the cell sap showed reproducidble independent variation during development which was taken into consideration in calculating net amino acid incorporation. A larger increase in ribonuclease activity was observed during development; however, nuclease inhibitor activity was absent before day 15 but increased thereafter. Aminoacyl-tRNA sythetase activity did not vary significantly. It is proposed that the observed changes in the rate of cell-free protein synthesis result not only from increasing ribonuclease activity with increasing developmental age but also from changes in the activity of other soluble factors.
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PMID:Polymorphism in fowl serum albumin. VI. Changes in in vitro protein synthesizing activity in developing embryonic fowl liver. 46 Jan 76

Lactose has been coupled to the lysine residues of the cross-linked dimer of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A by reductive amination with cyanoborohydride. Derivatives of ribonuclease dimer that contained up to 10 Nepsilon-1-(1-deoxylactitolyl)-lysine residues per molecule had greater than 75% of the enzymic activity of the unmodified enzyme toward yeast RNA. Upon intravenous injection of the 14C-labeled (enzymically inactivated by 14C-carboxymethylation) derivatives into rats, their uptake by the liver was a function of the number of lactose residues coupled. At 10 min, 69% of the injected derivative of ribonuclease dimer containing eight 1-deoxylactitolyl-lysine residues/molecule was found in the liver; with the non-glycosylated enzyme, the liver uptake at 10 min was only 4%, and 75% of the radioactivity was found in the kidneys.
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PMID:Effect of reductive lactosamination on the hepatic uptake of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A dimer. 63 57

Conjugates of two unlike proteins can be prepared via the intermolecular disulfide interchange reaction, namely, protein A containing thiol groups reacts with protein B containing 4-dithiopyridyl groups to yield a conjugate with the release of 4-thiopyridone. Thiol groups can be introduced into proteins upon amidination with methyl 3-mercaptopropionimidate ester or 2-iminothiolane, and 4-dithiopyridyl groups can be introduced into proteins with these same reagents in the presence of 4,4'-dithiodipyridine. 2-Iminothiolane is stable on storage in contrast to the known lability of imidate esters; therefore 2-iminothiolane is a more convenient reagent for the modification of protein than are the imidate esters. All the reactions can be carried out easily under mild conditions in good yields. Conjugates of bovine plasma albumin with itself, ribonuclease, or a copolymer of D-glutamic acid and D-lysine and of sheep antibody and horseradish peroxidase were prepared with modified proteins containing an average of 1 to 5 thiol or dithiopyridyl groups per mol. These conjugates formed mainly dimers, trimers, and tetramers. The peroxidase labeled antibody retained more than 80% of its enzymatic and antigenic binding activities.
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PMID:Preparation of protein conjugates via intermolecular disulfide bond formation. 64 98

A description is given of the synthesis by fragment condensation of the peptide Gly-Glu-Ser-Arg-Glu-Ser-Ser-Ala-Asp-Lys-Phe-Lys-Arg-Gln-His-Met-Asp-Thr-Glu-Gly-Pro-Ser-Lys corresponding to the 1--23 amino acid sequence of rat pancreatic ribonuclease. This rat peptide combined with bovine S-protein yields a fully active ribonuclease S' analogue.
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PMID:Studies on polypeptides. XXVI. Synthesis of the N-terminal 1--23 peptide sequence of rat pancreatic ribonuclease; enzymatic activity of the hybrid complex with bovine S-protein. 64 56


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