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Query: EC:3.4.21.4 (trypsin)
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Labeling studies of Torpedo marmorata nicotinic acetylcholine receptor with the noncompetitive channel blocker [3H]chlorpromazine have led to the initial identification of amino acids plausibly participating to the walls of the ion channel on the alpha, beta, and delta subunits. We report here results obtained with the gamma subunit, which bring additional information on the structure of the channel. After photolabeling of the membrane-bound receptor under equilibrium conditions in the presence of agonist and with or without phencyclidine (a specific ligand for the high-affinity site for noncompetitive blockers), the purified labeled gamma subunit was digested with trypsin, and the resulting fragments were fractionated by HPLC. Sequence analysis of peptide mixtures containing various amounts of highly hydrophobic fragments showed that three amino acids are labeled by [3H]chlorpromazine in a phencyclidine-sensitive manner: Thr-253, Ser-257, and Leu-260. These residues all belong to the hydrophobic and putative transmembrane region MII of the gamma subunit. Their distribution along the sequence is consistent with an alpha-helical organization of this segment. The [3H]chlorpromazine-labeled amino acids are conserved at homologous positions in the known sequences of other ligand-gated ion channels and may, thus, play a critical role in ion-transport mechanisms.
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PMID:The noncompetitive blocker [3H]chlorpromazine labels three amino acids of the acetylcholine receptor gamma subunit: implications for the alpha-helical organization of regions MII and for the structure of the ion channel. 169 75

Two determinants of hepatitis B surface Ag (HBsAg), identified by mAb raised against polypeptide components, were characterized immunochemically. One was expressed on HBsAg irrespective of the four major subtypes, i.e., adw, adr, ayw, and ayr, whereas the other was subtypic but not identical to any of d, y, w, and r determinants. The common determinant was generated by a synthetic pentadecapeptide with a sequence of Thr-Thr-Ser-Thr-Gly-Pro-Cys-Lys-Thr-Cys-Thr-Ile-Pro-Ala-Gln representing amino acids 115-129 of the S gene product, and detected invariably in 366 HBsAg samples in sera from asymptomatic carriers in Japan. The activity of the S gene product, as well as the peptide (115-129), to bind with the mAb was not affected by alkylation alone, but was completely lost after reductive alkylation. The antigenic activity was lost when the S gene product was severed between Lys122 and Thr123 by trypsin. A microconformation maintained by the -Cys121-Cys124 bond, therefore, would be required for the common determinant. The other mAb identified an epitope of HBsAg that was mimicked by a synthetic tetradecapeptide with a sequence of Thr-Cys-Thr-Ile-Pro-Ala-Gln-Gly-Thr-Ser-Met-Phe-Pro-Ser, representing amino acids 123-136 of the S gene product. Among 16 HBsAg samples with known S gene sequences, 5 with Ile126 possessed this subtypic determinant, but the remaining 11 with Thr126 did not. The 5 hepatitis B virus genomes encoding the subtypic determinant differed less than 5.6% from each other in the entire nucleotide sequence, but by 8.0% or more from any of the other 11 genomes without the capacity to encode it.
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PMID:Synthetic oligopeptides bearing a common or subtypic determinant of hepatitis B surface antigen. 169 80

Recently we reported the purification of a mitogen-activated S6 kinase from Swiss mouse 3T3 fibroblasts and rat liver. The rat liver protein was cleaved with cyanogen bromide or trypsin and 17 of the resulting peptides were sequenced. DNA primers were generated from 3 peptides that had homology to sequences of the conserved catalytic domain of protein kinases. These primers were used in the polymerase chain reaction to obtain a 0.4-kilobase DNA fragment. This fragment was either radioactively labeled and hybridized to Northern blots of poly(A)+ mRNA or used to screen a rat liver cDNA library. Northern blot analysis revealed four transcripts of 2.5, 3.2, 4.0, and 6.0 kilobases, and five S6 kinase clones were obtained by screening the library. Only two of the clones, which were identical, encoded a full-length protein. This protein had a molecular weight of 56,160, which correlated closely to that of the dephosphorylated kinase determined by SDS/PAGE. The catalytic domain of the kinase resembles that of other serine/threonine kinases belonging to the second messenger subfamily of protein kinases.
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PMID:Cloning of the mitogen-activated S6 kinase from rat liver reveals an enzyme of the second messenger subfamily. 169 26

Bovine myelin basic protein (MBP) was found to be an excellent in vitro substrate (apparent Km = 50 microM) for MAP (mitogen-activated protein) kinase and can be used in lieu of microtubule-associated protein 2 for purification and functional studies of the enzyme. MBP phosphotransferase activity co-purified with MAP kinase during sequential DE52, phenyl-Superose, and gel filtration chromatography, and kinase activities for the two substrates were co-regulated by mitogen stimulation. MAP kinase phosphorylated MBP exclusively on threonine, and only one major phosphopeptide was generated by digestion with trypsin or endoproteinase Lys-C. Using mass spectrometry, we determined that the phosphorylation site is threonine 97, present in the conserved triproline loop of MBP, with (partial) sequence -Thr-Pro-Arg-Thr97-Pro-Pro-Pro-. Thr97 is a known in vivo phosphorylation site in MBP although enzymes capable of phosphorylating this site have not been identified previously. MAP kinase phosphorylated peptide 88-109 from rabbit MBP and a synthetic peptide 91-109 from human MBP but did not phosphorylate either the histone H1 peptide, utilized by p34cdc2, or the peptide substrate for the recently described proline-directed kinase. Thus, the sequence surrounding threonine 97 in bovine MBP may contain essential features of a recognition sequence for MAP kinase.
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PMID:Identification by mass spectrometry of threonine 97 in bovine myelin basic protein as a specific phosphorylation site for mitogen-activated protein kinase. 170 Sep 79

Stem cell factor (SCF) isolated from culture medium conditioned by Buffalo rat liver cells was subjected to detailed structural analysis. Attempts at direct N-terminal sequencing of the factor indicated that its N terminus is blocked as pyroglutamic acid (Zsebo, K. M., Wypych, J., McNiece, I. K., Lu, H. S., Smith, K. A., Karkare, S. B., Sachdev, R. K., Yuschenkoff, V. N., Birkett, N. C., Williams, L. R., Satyagal, V. N., Bosselman, R. A., Mendiaz, E. A., and Langley, K. E. (1990) Cell 63, 195-201). The removal of the blocking pyroglutamate by pyroglutamate aminopeptidase allowed sequencing of the polypeptide chain to position 47. Stem cell factor was also digested with CNBr, trypsin, Staphylococcus aureus protease (strain V8), and AspN peptidase to generate different sets of peptides that were then separated by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography and sequenced. Sequence of an internal peptide fragment obtained by cleavage of stem cell factor at a single tryptophanyl peptide bond was also obtained. From these analyses, the complete amino acid sequence could be constructed. The factor as isolated is a single polypeptide of 164 or 165 amino acids. The sequence is confirmatory to a sequence deduced from a cDNA sequence and provides important evidence for C-terminal processing of the polypeptide encoded by cDNA. There are four potential N-linked glycosylation sites. Asn65, Asn72, Asn109, and Asn120. Sequence determination of isolated peptides suggested that Asn120 is glycosylated, Asn65 and Asn109 glycosylated in some molecules but not in others, and Asn72 not glycosylated. Amino acids at three positions, i.e. 142, 143, and 155, could not be detected during sequence analysis. Since the gene sequence codes for Ser, Thr, and Thr at these positions (Martin, F. H., Suggs, S. V., Langley, K. E., Lu, H. S., Ting, J., Okino, K. H., Morris, C. F., McNiece, I. K., Jacobsen, F. W., Mendiaz, E. A., Birkett, N. C., Smith, K. C., Johnson, M. J., Parker, V. P., Flores, J. C., Patel, A. C., Fisher, E. F., Erjavec, H. O., Herrera, C. J., Wypych, J., Sachdev, R. K., Pope, J. A., Leslie, I., Wen, D., Lin, C. W., Cupples, R. L., and Zsebo, K. M. (1990) Cell 63, 203-211), they could be sites of O-linked carbohydrate attachment. The four cysteines form two intramolecular disulfide bonds, Cys4-Cys89 and Cys43-Cys138.
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PMID:Amino acid sequence and post-translational modification of stem cell factor isolated from buffalo rat liver cell-conditioned medium. 170 71

The amino acid sequence of human alpha-fetoprotein, a 67-kDa protein present in mammalian embryonic serum, was verified by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometric (FAB/MS) analyses of three different enzymatic digests of the protein. Human alpha-fetoprotein obtained from a large-scale cell culture was digested with trypsin and V-8 protease either separately on two different samples or combined on the same one. The V-8 protease digest of the protein was partially fractionated by HPLC; the other samples were directly analyzed by FAB/MS without previous purification steps. About 90% of the alpha-fetoprotein amino acid sequence was verified by mass spectrometric analysis; this also confirmed that the cell-derived protein is identical with the hepatoma-derived protein. FAB analysis revealed that the N terminus of the mature protein is arginine rather than threonine, with the threonine occupying the second position. Therefore, the processing site of the alpha-fetoprotein signal peptide during maturation of the protein occurs at the N-terminal side of the arginine residue formerly indicated as residue-1. Thus mature alpha-fetoprotein contains 591 amino acids rather than 590.
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PMID:Human alpha-fetoprotein primary structure: a mass spectrometric study. 170 10

Nafcillin was shown to reversibly inhibit beta-lactamase from Staphylococcus aureus PC1 with characteristics indicative of a type A inhibitor [Citri, Samuni & Zyk (1976) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 73, 1048-1052]. At nafcillin concentrations above 80 mM, complete inactivation occurred within 200 s. Upon removal of the excess nafcillin the inhibited enzyme was re-activated completely, with a rate constant of 2.0 x 10(-3) s-1 (25 degrees C). The inhibited enzyme was shown to be in the form of a covalent acyl-enzyme intermediate. Digestion by pepsin and trypsin yielded a single nafcillin-labelled peptide fragment which was isolated, sequenced and shown to be: Ala-Tyr-Ala-Ser-Thr-Ser-Lys. This sequence corresponds to the region surrounding the active-site serine residue, Ser-70, indicating that the inhibitor is covalently attached to the same residue as productive substrates.
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PMID:Identification of the site of covalent attachment of nafcillin, a reversible suicide inhibitor of beta-lactamase. 173 55

We have identified two isoforms of initiation factor 4A (eIF-4A) in maize root tips, with distinct isoelectric points and similar molecular mass (approximately 50 kDa). Both isoforms of maize eIF-4A cross-react with antibodies raised against wheat germ eIF-4A, and one of the maize proteins (higher pI isoform) comigrates with purified wheat germ eIF-4A on two-dimensional gels. The two maize eIF-4As were indistinguishable by comparative peptide fingerprint analysis, which also showed a very strong similarity between eIF-4A in maize roots and wheat germ. Maize eIF-4As copurify with eIF-4F and eIF-(iso)4F on a 7-methyl-GTP-Sepharose affinity column, indicating that they are part of the 5'-cap-binding complex. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting of proteins from 32P-labeled maize root tips revealed that the lower pI isoform of eIF-4A is phosphorylated. Two-dimensional phosphopeptide maps of trypsin-digested eIF-4A contained one principal phosphorylated fragment; phosphoamino acid analysis indicated phosphorylation of threonine. In oxygenated maize root tips, the ratio of phosphorylated to nonphosphorylated eIF-4A is approximately 0.2. This ratio increases to approximately 1 within 20 min following the onset of hypoxia, due to interconversion between the two maize eIF-4A isoforms. The hypoxia-induced phosphorylation of eIF-4A is discussed with respect to metabolic responses, and the translational control of gene expression, in hypoxic plant tissues.
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PMID:Hypoxia enhances phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 4A in maize root tips. 174 28

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method involving postcolumn fluorescence derivatization is described for the quantification of five fragment peptides (methionine-enkephalin-Thr-Ser-Glu-Lys, methionine-enkephalin-Lys, methionine-enkephalin-Arg, leucine-enkephalin-Lys and leucine-enkephalin-Arg) released by tryptic digestion from the opioid peptide precursors (proopiomeranocortin and proenkephalins A and B) in rat brain tissues. The tissue proteins containing the precursors are hydrolyzed with trypsin to the fragment peptides. The peptides are separated on an Asahipak ODP-50 column and on-line detected fluorometrically by using hydroxylamine, cobalt(II) and borate buffer reagents. The detection limits (S/N = 3) for the peptides are 0.7-2.8 pmol per 100 microliters injected. The distribution of the precursors in the brain tissues was also discussed on the basis of the determined values of the fragment peptides.
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PMID:High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of peptides released by tryptic degradation from opioid peptide precursors in rat brain. 180 50

The mechanism of action of the heat-stable enterotoxin STa secreted from enterotoxigenic forms of Escherichia coli has remained elusive, in part due to a tedious, low-yield purification procedure. We report here a method for obtaining large amounts of a biologically active lysine-containing analog of STa. Initial attempts to express the toxin using an expression vector that did not encode a signal sequence resulted in no biologically active material being recovered either from lysed cells or as a secretory product. However, use of the secretion vector pJAL36, which contains the STII enterotoxin signal sequence, allowed large amounts of an STa derivative containing the additional sequence Ser-Thr-Lys at the amino terminus of the mature enterotoxin to be readily purified from culture supernatants. This enterotoxin analog, known as KSTa-1, was equal in biological and receptor binding activity to the native toxin STa. The lysine residue present in KSTa-1 promises to be useful as a reactive amino acid that is readily derivatized to allow coupling of the enterotoxin to supports for affinity chromatography and antigenic conjugates. Additionally, the insertion of the lysine residue carboxy terminal to the Ser-Thr sequence adds a reversible "handle" to the toxin sequence in that the Ser-Thr-Lys segment can be removed by treatment with trypsin, releasing the native form of STa.
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PMID:High-level expression and secretion of a lysine-containing analog of Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin. 182 15


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