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Porcine and ovine 19-S thyroglobulins prepared from frozen glands in several buffers using slice extraction or homogenization, ammonium sulfate precipitation and DEAE-cellulose chromatography or Sepharose 6B gel filtration were contaminated with protease activity of pH optima 4.5 and 8.6, as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Optimum temperatures of autodigestion were 37 degrees C at pH 4.5 and 25 degrees C at pH 8.6. Thyroglobulins prepared from unfrozen glands pH 7.2 in 0.1 M sodium phosphate using slice extraction, ammonium sulfate precipitation and Sepharose 6B gel filtration were devoid of acid proteolytic activity but still underwent autodigestion at pH 8.6. Diisopropylfluorophosphate was a potent inhibitor of the alkaline protease activity of ovine thyroglobulin preparations. In contrast to thyroglobulin obtained from frozen glands the proteins purified from fresh unfrozen glands at pH 7.2 only showed the 19-S and the 12-S species by electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels. Very few bands migrating faster than 12-S were visible. After full reduction and S-alkylation of porcine and ovine thyroglobulins, no qualitative changes were observed in the gel electrophoresis pattern as compared to the unmodified proteins. Species of apparent mol. wt. corresponding to the native 12 S were the major component, strongly suggesting a mol. wt. of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulins.
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PMID:Endogenous proteolytic activity and constituent polypeptide chains of sheep and pig 19 S thyroglobulin. 0 35

An alkaline protease was found to be associated with the granulosis virus of the Indian meal moth. Plodia interpunctella. The protease was located within the protein matrix of the occluded virus and hydrolyzed the major constituent of this matrix, a 28,000-dalton protein (granulin), to a mixture of polypeptides ranging in molecular weight from 10,000 to 27,000. A rapid, sensitive assay for the protease was developed using radioactively labeled granulosis virus as substrate. With this assay, the proteolytic activity could be detected by measuring the release of acid-soluble peptides from the labeled virus. The protease had a pH optimum of 10.5 and a temperature optimum of 40 degrees C and was inhibited by diisopropyl phosphorofluoridate, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, and L-(1-tosylamido-2-phenyl) ethyl chloromethyl ketone. Purification of the protease from matrix protein was achieved by anion-exchange and gel permeation chromatography. The molecular weight of the isolated protease, determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and gel filtration, was approximately 14,000.
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PMID:Characterization of an alkaline protease associated with a granulosis virus of Plodia interpunctella. 2 45

A comparison was made on the properties of the inclusion body proteins of two insect viruses: the nucleopolyhedrosis viruses of the European pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer, Geoffroy, and the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, Linnaeus. The inclusion body proteins were characterized by the following parameters: amino acid composition, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the absence and presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate--mercaptoethanol, isoelectric focusing, and alkaline protease activity. The properties of the inclusion body proteins of the two viruses were similar in many respects, but clear differences were observed. A principal difference was the absence of alkaline protease activity associated with the inclusion body proteins of N. sertifer nucleopolyhedrosis virus.
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PMID:Comparative properties of the inclusion body proteins of the nucleopolyhedrosis viruses of Neodiprion sertifer and Lymantria dispar. 37 84

In the course of a search for an alkaline stable protease for industrial use, an alkaline protease (protease BYA) was isolated from an alkalophilic Bacillus sp. Y, and its properties were characterized. Its optimum pH was pH 10.0-12.5, when casein was used as a substrate. In addition to the stability of protease BYA at pH 6.5-13.0, it was also very stable towards various surface-active agents, such as sodium dodecyl sulfate and sodium linear alkylbenzene sulfonate. Protease BYA was most active at 70 degrees C. The isoelectric point (pI) of protease BYA was about 10.1. Protease BYA was characterized as a serine protease because of its sensitivity to phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride and diisopropyl fluorophosphate. The protease seems to be related to proteases of the subtilisin family, such as subtilisin BPN', subtilisin Carlsberg, and No. 221 protease.
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PMID:Purification and properties of a novel surface-active agent- and alkaline-resistant protease from Bacillus sp. Y. 136 37

In order to obtain a large quantity of glutamic-acid-specific endopeptidase of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC12600 (SPase) without cultivating its pathogenic host bacterium, expression plasmids enabling secretion of SPase from Bacillus subtilis were constructed by inserting the SPase gene into B. subtilis-Escherichia coli shuttle vectors. B. subtilis harbouring a simple recombinant plasmid containing the coding and the 5'-flanking regions of SPase in the shuttle vector pHY300PLK secreted 22 mg/l of SPase into the medium. As this level was lower than that of the natural strain (45 mg/l), we tried to increase the expression level by constructing a series of hybrid plasmids with the following features: (1) the terminator sequence of the alkaline protease gene from B. subtilis, (2) the promoter and the leader sequences of the alpha-amylase gene or of alkaline protease gene from B. amyloliquefaciens, (3) the vector pHY300PLK and the fused vector of pHY300PLK and pUB110. By using a variety of hybrid plasmids, the resulting transformants secreted SPase at levels of 33-120 mg/l. The recombinant SPase isolated from the medium was indistinguishable from the natural one with respect to its behaviour on sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting as well as its enzyme activity.
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PMID:Secretory expression of a glutamic-acid-specific endopeptidase (SPase) from Staphylococcus aureus ATCC12600 in Bacillus subtilis. 136 43

The proteasome (multicatalytic protease complex), a high molecular weight protein complex, has been purified from spinach leaves by successive chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, Bio-Gel A-1.5m, DEAE-TOYOPEARL 650C, and DEAE-5PW. The molecular mass was estimated to be 850 kDa by gel filtration. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the proteasome gave a single protein band under nondenaturing conditions and at least 10 bands in the range of 21-32 kDa in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. By electron microscopy after negative staining with uranyl acetate, the proteasome from spinach appeared as symmetrical ring-shaped particles. The substrate specificity of proteasomes indicates that they contain at least three types of activity, namely, chymotrypsin-like, Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease-like, and trypsin-like activities. The former two activities were enhanced by poly-L-lysine or sodium dodecyl sulfate. Moreover, we examined the immunological reactivities of proteasomes from various eukaryotes. As a result, cross-immunoreactivities of some subunits were observed. These properties of the proteasome are similar to those of proteasomes isolated from various other eukaryotic sources.
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PMID:Purification and initial characterization of the proteasome from the higher plant Spinacia oleracea. 140 Apr 79

Relative biological values (BV) of 36 feed phosphates were determined with female turkeys in bioassays of 21-day duration using three response criteria: weight gain, tibia ash percentage, and gain:feed ratio. Calcium phosphate, dibasic dihydrate (United States Pharmacopeia) was the reference standard. Nine mono-dicalcium phosphates (M-DCP, 21.0% phosphorus), 13 di-monocalcium phosphates (D-MCP, 18.5% phosphorus), and 14 defluorinated phosphates (DFP, 18.0% phosphorus) were evaluated. The average relative BV for M-DCP, D-MCP, and DFP samples were 97.6, 94.6, and 90.8%, respectively. Solubility of phosphates was determined by four recognized methods. The solvents were water, .4% HCl, 2.0% citric acid (CA), and neutral ammonium citrate (NAC). Water solubility of M-DCP samples was greater (67.5%) than that of D-MCP (38.8%) and DFP (8.9%) samples. Correlation of water solubility of phosphates to their relative BV was quite low, and water solubility was a poor indicator of BV. When .4% HCl was the solvent, correlation coefficients (r) were .55, .33, and .72 for M-DCP, D-MCP, and DFP, respectively. Based on these results and prediction equations, .4% HCl solubility would be inappropriate for estimating BV of M-DCP and D-MCP samples. Solubility of feed phosphates (mainly D-MCP and DFP) in 2.0% CA or NAC was positively correlated with BV; the r values were .87 to .95. Both of these solubility tests provided a good index of BV. However, it would seem inappropriate and risky to replace bioassays totally with these tests. Feed phosphate users could perform either the 2.0% CA or NAC solubility test easily as a screen for BV along with other quality control procedures (i.e., phosphorus, calcium, sodium, and fluoride determinations).
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PMID:Correlation of biological value of feed phosphates with their solubility in water, dilute hydrogen chloride, dilute citric acid, and neutral ammonium citrate. 147 May 90

We have reinvestigated the recent proposal that the multicatalytic proteinase, together with other components of reticulocyte lysate, may become incorporated into a very large, "26 S" proteinase complex via an ATP-dependent process. Different from these published results, we consistently isolate the multicatalytic proteinase as a 650,000 Da "20 S" multisubunit proteinase. Analysis on nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels of reticulocyte fractions containing the putative complexed form of the multicatalytic proteinase reveal that activity against succinyl-Leu-Leu-Val-Tyr-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin is associated with two groups of protein of different molecular mass. One migrates like multicatalytic proteinase purified to homogeneity, displays, on sodium dodecyl sulfate gels, a set of protein species in the range of 23,000-32,000 Da, characteristic of the multicatalytic proteinase, and is recognized by a monospecific antibody to the enzyme. In contrast, the activity associated with the higher molecular mass (26 S) proteinase complex lacks the typical multicatalytic proteinase subunits and is devoid of antigenic material, when tested with the antibody. These results confirm and extend our recent findings in mouse liver by showing that the multicatalytic proteinase is not a constituent of a 26 S proteinase complex.
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PMID:Evidence indicating that the multicatalytic proteinase of rabbit reticulocytes is not incorporated as a core enzyme into a 26 S proteinase complex. 157 17

A protein that greatly stimulates the multiple peptidase activities of the 20 S proteasome (also known as macropain, the multicatalytic protease complex, and 20 S protease) has been purified from bovine red blood cells and from bovine heart. The activator protein was a single polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 28,000, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and had a native molecular weight of approximately 180,000. This protein, which we have termed PA28, regulated all three of the putatively distinct peptidase activities displayed by each of two functionally different forms of the proteasome. This regulation usually included both an increase in the maximal reaction velocity and a decrease in the concentration of substrate required for half-maximal velocity and indicated that PA28 acted as a positive allosteric effector of the proteasome. PA28 failed, however, to stimulate the hydrolysis of large protein substrates such as casein and lysozyme. These results suggested that the hydrolysis of protein substrates occurred at a site or sites distinct from those that hydrolyzed small peptides and that the regulation of the two processes could be uncoupled. Evidence for direct binding of PA28 to the proteasome was obtained by glycerol density gradient centrifugation. PA28 may play an important regulatory role in intracellular proteolytic pathways mediated by the proteasome.
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PMID:Identification, purification, and characterization of a protein activator (PA28) of the 20 S proteasome (macropain). 158 32

1. A latent form of multicatalytic proteinase (MCP) was purified to apparent homogeneity from white croaker muscle by DEAE-Sephacel, Mono-Q, Sephacryl S-300 and second Mono-Q chromatographies. 2. The enzyme preparation was electrophoretically and immunologically similar to MCP purified from the same source by a different method (Folco et al., 1988b, Archs Biochem. Biophys. 267, 599-605) but showed much lower chymotrypsin- and trypsin-like activities. 3. These activities responded to sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), urea and heat treatments in different ways: SDS stimulated both activities, urea stimulated the former and inhibited the latter and heating stimulated the former and did not affect the latter. 4. The stimulation of chymotrypsin-like activity by the three treatments was irreversible. 5. Exposure of MCP to SDS or urea in the absence of substrate rapidly inactivated it, whereas heat activation took place irrespective of the presence of substrate. 6. The stimulating effect of SDS on chymotrypsin-like activity was lost in the presence of urea. 7. These results suggest that the enzyme may be activated by different mechanisms.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a latent form of multicatalytic proteinase from fish muscle. 161 38


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