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Query: EC:3.4.21.7 (plasmin)
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The macromolecular self-association of ADP-ribosyltransferase protein in solution was studied by several experimental techniques: quantitative gel filtration, electrophoretic analyses in non-denaturing gels, and cross-linking the enzyme protein with glutaraldehyde, dimethyl pimelimidate, dimethyl suberimidate, dimethyl 3,3'-dithiobisproprionimidate and tetranitromethane. The self-association of the polypeptide components obtained by plasmin digestion was also determined by using the above cross-linking agents. Monomers and cross-linked dimers of the enzyme protein, possessing enzymic activity, were separated in non-denaturing gels by electrophoresis. The basic polypeptide fragments, exhibiting molecular masses of 29 kDa and 36 kDa, self-associated, whereas the polypeptides with molecular masses of 56 kDa and 42 kDa associated only to a negligible extent, indicating that the peptide regions that also bind DNA and histones are probable sites of self-association in the intact enzyme molecule. Macromolecular association of the enzyme was indicated by a protein-concentration-dependent red-shift in protein fluorescence. The specific enzymic activity of the isolated ADP-ribosyltransferase depended on the concentration of the enzyme protein, and at 2.00 microM concentration the enzyme was self-inhibitory. Dilution of the enzyme protein to 30-40 nM resulted in a large increase in its specific activity. Further dilution to 1-3 nM coincided with a marked decrease of specific activity. Direct enzymic assays of electrophoretically separated monomers and cross-linked dimers demonstrated that the dimer appears to be the active molecular species that catalyses poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis. The NAD+ glycohydrolase activity of the enzyme was also dependent on protein concentration and was highest at 1-3 nM enzyme concentration, when polymerase activity was minimal, indicating that the monomeric enzyme behaved as a glycohydrolase, whereas poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of enzyme molecules was maximal when the enzyme tends to be self-associated to the dimeric form.
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PMID:Macromolecular association of ADP-ribosyltransferase and its correlation with enzymic activity. 214 19

Proteolysis by plasmin inactivates bovine ADP-ribosyltransferase; therefore, enzymatic activity depends exclusively on the intact enzyme molecule. The transferase was hydrolyzed by plasmin to four major polypeptides, which were characterized by affinity chromatography and N-terminal sequencing. Based on the cDNA sequence for human ADP-ribosyltransferase enzyme [Uchida, K., Morita, T., Sato, T., Ogura, T., Yamashita, R., Noguchi, S., Suzuki, H., Nyunoya, H., Miwa, M., & Sugimura, T. (1987) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 148, 617-622], a polypeptide map of the bovine enzyme was constructed by superposing the experimentally determined N-terminal sequences of the isolated polypeptides on the human sequence deduced from its cDNA. Two polypeptides, the N-terminal peptide (Mr 29,000) and the polypeptide adjacent to it (Mr 36,000), exhibited binding affinities toward DNA, whereas the C-terminal peptide (Mr 56,000), which accounts for the rest of the transferase protein, bound to the benzamide-Sepharose affinity matrix, indicating that it contains the NAD+-binding site. The fourth polypeptide (Mr 42,000) represents the C-terminal end of the larger C-terminal fragment (Mr 56,000) and was formed by a single enzymatic cut by plasmin of the polypeptide of Mr 56,000. The polypeptide of Mr 42,000 still retained the NAD+-binding site. The plasmin-catalyzed cleavage of the polypeptide of Mr 56,000-42,000 was greatly accelerated by the specific ligand NAD+. Out of a total of 96 amino acid residues sequenced here, there were only 6 conservative replacements between human and bovine ADP-ribosyltransferase.
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PMID:Polypeptide domains of ADP-ribosyltransferase obtained by digestion with plasmin. 297 49