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Query: EC:3.1.27.1 (RNase)
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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

From experiments with glycoproteins containing the glycopeptide linkages, arabinose-O-hydroxyproline and galactose-O-serine (plant cell wall glycopeptides), N-acetylgalactosamine-O-serine/threonine (pig submaxillary mucin), and N-acetyl-glucosamine-N-asparagine (fetuin), it is apparent that anhydrous liquid HF, a reagent commonly used by snythetic peptide chemists for the complete removal of protecting groups from synthetic peptides, cleaves the O-glycosidic linkages of neutral sugars in 1 hr at 0 degrees C, and the O-glycosidic linkages of amino sugars in 3 hr at 23 degrees C. The N-glycosidic linkage of N-acetylglucosamine to asparagine is not cleaved under any conditions that have been tested. Sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis of bovine serum albumin treated in HF does not show any degradation of peptide bonds. Some relatively stable enzymes (lysozyme and RNase) have been shown by others to retain most of their enzymic activity after short treatment (1 hr at 0 degrees C) in HF. With the specificity of HF at 0 degrees C for neutral sugars it should be possible to generate di- or trisaccharides in high yield from polysaccharides containing both neutral and amino sugars with neutral sugars as the reducing termini.
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PMID:A new approach to the structural determination of glycoproteins and polysaccharides: anhydrous HF solvolysis. 7 2

The amino acid sequences of the pancreatic ribonucleases from river-breed water buffaloes from Italy and swamp-breed water buffaloes from Indonesia differ at three positions. One of the differences involves a replacement of asparagine-34, with covalently attached carbohydrate on all molecules, in the river-breed enzyme by serine in the swamp-breed enzyme. The ribonuclease content of the pancreas differs considerably between breeds and is lower in river buffaloes. A ribonuclease preparation from two swamp buffaloes contained a minor glycosylated component. Preliminary evidence was obtained that the amino acid sequence of this component has factors in common with the main component of the swamp-breed ribonuclease and with the river-breed enzyme.
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PMID:Amino acid sequence differences in pancreatic ribonucleases from water buffalo breeds from Indonesia and Italy. 54 6

Previous studies have shown that a membrane preparation from hen oviduct catalyzes transfer of oligosaccharide from oligosaccharide-P-P-dolichol to denatured RNase and alpha-lactalbumin. To gain further insight into the structural requirements of a protein that allow it to serve as a substrate for glycosylation, the acceptor ability of a variety of other modified proteins containing the tripeptide sequence-ASN-X-(SER/THR)-has been investigated. Of 7 proteins tested, 2 (ovine prolactin and rabbit muscle triosephosphate isomerase) could be enzymatically glycosylated by a particulate preparation from hen oviduct. The remaining 5 proteins, assayed as either S-carboxymethylated or S-aminoethylated derivatives, were inactive as carbohydrate acceptors. However, cyanogen bromide treatment of 2 of the inactive proteins, bovine catalase and concanavalin A from jack bean, yielded peptide fragments which served as substrates for glycosylation. These results suggests that for some proteins, disruption of the tertiary structure is sufficient to allow attachment of carbohydrate. Other denatured proteins may possess additional restrictions imposed by their secondary structure. In certain cases, these restrictions are removed when the polypeptide chain is fragmented.
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PMID:Enzymatic conversion of proteins to glycoproteins by lipid-linked saccharides: a study of potential exogenous acceptor proteins. 73 7

Preparations of yeast cell membranes can catalyse in vitro the N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminylation of the asparagine sequon at residues 34--36 of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A. The relevant glycopeptides were isolated from tryptic hydrolysates of the glycosylated ribonuclease and analysed. The donor used was UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, although the mechanism of the transfer is unknown. Mn2+ ions at concentrations of 25 mM double the activity of the enzymic transfer.
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PMID:Glycosylation in vitro of an asparagine sequon catalysed by preparations of yeast cell membranes. 79 26

Two ribonucleases were isolated from guinea-pig pancreas by extraction with 0.125 M sulfuric acid, precipitation with acetone and chromatography on carboxymethyl-cellulose. The amino acid sequences were determined from tryptic digests of the aminoethylated proteins. The tryptic peptides were positioned in the sequence by homology with other pancreatic ribonucleases. Both ribonucleases not only differ in the presence (ribonuclease B) or absence of carbohydrate (ribonuclease A), but also at 31 positions of the amino acid sequence. In guinea-pig ribonuclease B a leucine/proline heterogeneity was found at position 64. The carbohydrate in guinea-pig ribonuclease B is attached to asparagine residues at positions 21 and 34. The carbohydrate-free guinea-pig ribonuclease A possesses a recognition site for sugar attachment in the sequence Asn-Val-Ser (62-64).
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PMID:Guinea-pig pancreatic ribonucleases. Isolation, properties, primary structure and glycosidation. 86 24

Pancreatic RNAase (ribonuclease) from the pike whale (lesser rorqual, Balaenoptera acutorostrata) was isolated by affinity chromatography. The protein was digested with different proteolytic enzymes. Peptides were isolated by gel filtration, preparative high-voltage paper electrophoresis and paper chromatography. The amino acid sequence of peptides was determined by the dansyl-Edman method. Although we do not have an amino acid composition for the whole protein, all peptide bonds were overlapped by one or more peptides. Residues 85-96 are bridged by a peptide of unstaisfactory composition and the sequence here depends, at least in part, on homology for its confirmation. Another region in which a similar situation obtains is residues 39-40. This pancreatic RNAase differs at 24-33% of the positions from all other mammalian pancreatic RNAases sequenced to date, except for pig RNAase, from which it differs by 19%. This indicates that whale RNAase has evolved independently during the larger part of the evolution of the mammals. Lesser-rorqual pancreatic RNAase is partially glycosidated (30%) at asparagine-76 in an Asn-Ser-Thr sequence (residues 76-78). Pig RNAase also has carbohydrate attached to asparagine-76 and is identical with lesser-rorqual RNAase in residues 76-98. Detailed evidence for the sequence has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50066 (11 pages) at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, W. Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies may be obtained on the terms ginen in Biochem. J. (1976) 135, 5.
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PMID:The amino acid sequence of pike-whale (lesser-rorqual) pancreatic ribonuclease. 96 70

Serum contains a sugar transferase which is able to catalyse the glycosylation in vitro of the asparagine residue present in the sequence Asn.Leu.Thr in bovine pancreatic ribonuclease. UDP-2-Acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose (UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine) acts as a donor, although the mechanism of the transfer is unexplored. Spermidine and Mn2+, as well as CDP-choline, can act as activators for the reaction. Monoglycosylated ribonuclease (ribonuclease-GlcNAc) has been separated (23% yield) from unreacted ribonuclease A by affinity chromatography on a column of wheat-germ agglutinin bound to Sepharose, and characterised. A possible reason for the presence of the enzyme in serum is suggested.
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PMID:UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine-asparagine sequon N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminyl-transferase-activity in human serum. 98 74

Pancreatic tissue from topi (Damaliscus korrigum) contains three ribonuclease components in a ratio of 8:22:70. Two components are glycosidated, whereas the third one does not contain carbohydrate. The amino acid sequence of topi ribonuclease A was deduced from a tryptic digest of the performic acid-oxidized protein. Peptides were positioned by homology with other bovid ribonucleases. Only peptides that differed in amino acid composition from the corresponding peptides of bovine ribonuclease were sequenced. The evidence obtained for the sequence of residues 67-73 is incomplete. Among the bovid ribonucleases (cow, bison, eland, sheep, goat and gnu), topi ribonuclease shows the closest resemblance with sheep and goat ribonucleases; except that the glutamic acid residue at position 103 in the ribonucleases from sheep and goat is substituted by a lysine residue in topi. Topi ribonucleases A and B differ only in the presence of carbohydrate attached to asparagine 34.
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PMID:The amino acid sequence of topi pancreatic ribonuclease. 99 Feb 82

Pancreatic ribonucleases from the hystricomorph rodent species: coypu and chinchilla were isolated using chromatography on carboxymethyl-cellulose. The amino acid sequences were determined from tryptic digests of the aminoethylated proteins. The tryptic peptides were positioned in the sequence by homology with other pancreatic ribonucleases. Coypu pancreas contains one carbohydrate-containing ribonuclease component. From chinchilla pancreas two carbohydrate-containing ribonuclease components were obtained; one homogeneous and the other heterogeneous. The latter differs from the first in being more acidic; it exhibits heterogeneity both in its carbohydrate moiety (glycopeptides both with and without sialic acid were isolated) and in amino acid sequence (probably glycine at position 32 has been partially substituted by aspartic acid). In both ribonucleases the carbohydrate is attached to asparagine 34. Earlier results on the titration behaviour of histidine residues in both proteins obtained by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy are discussed. An ion bridge between the invariant glutamic acid 49 and histidine 80 may explain the high pK value of the latter.
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PMID:Isolation, properties and primary structure of coypu and chinchilla pancreatic ribonuclease. 99 96


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