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Immunoglobulin M (IgM, 19S macroglobulin) is a high molecular weight antibody molecule currently thought to be composed of five identical 7S subunits linked by disulfide bonds, perhaps in a cyclic conformation. Reported molecular weights of IgM vary from 8 x 10(5) to 10(6). Proteolytic cleavage of this molecule under standard conditions with several enzymes results in the formation of ten antigen-binding (Fab) fragments per mole, each Fab having a molecular weight of 40,000. The remainder of the molecule, designated Fc by analogy with the structure of immunoglobulin G (IgG), is highly susceptible to further enzyme cleavage and breaks down to dialyzable peptides. However, under carefully controlled conditions, an intact Fc-like fragment in low yield can be isolated from short-term papain digests of IgM at 37 degrees C. Availability of the Fc portion of the molecule is important not only for structural studies but because it may determine certain important biological properties of the molecule such as complement fixation and placental permeability. We here report that trypsin cleavage of IgM at temperatures exceeding 50 degrees C results in the production of excellent yields of an intact Fc fragment, whereas no detectable Fc fragment is produced by trypsin cleavage at 37 degrees C. Fab fragments are obtained under both temperature conditions, and an Fab dimer has been identified in high temperature digests. This unusual difference in the products of enzyme digestion with temperature is unexplained but may be related to steric changes induced in the IgM molecule by heat. Fc fragment isolated from high temperature digests contains two-thirds of the carbohydrate of the intact molecule, and has a molecular weight of 342,000. The molecular weight falls to 67,300 after treatment with disulfide reducing agents, thus supporting the concept of a pentameric structure for IgM.
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PMID:Immunoglobulin M: pentameric Fcmu fragments released by trypsin at higher temperatures. 498 34

1. Inhibition of ox liver glutamate dehydrogenase with N-(N'-acetyl-4[(35)S]-sulphamoylphenyl)maleimide (ASPM) is more specific at pH7.3 than at pH6.9. At pH7.3 inhibition accompanies the incorporation at 1 mole of ASPM residues into about 53000g. of protein. 2. Digestion of the modified protein with chymotrypsin and trypsin yields a unique radioactive peptide. 3. Acid hydrolysis of 1 mole of this peptide yields 1 mole of N(in)-succin-2-yl-lysine. The in-amino group of a lysyl residue is thus the site of modification of the protein. 4. The sequence containing the modified lysyl residue is: [Formula: see text] where Asx respresents either aspartic acid or asparagine.
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PMID:A peptide containing a reactive lysyl group from ox liver glutamate dehydrogenase. 578 69

Cell walls were isolated by mechanical disruption of mid-log phase cells of Bacillus stearothermophilus NCA 1503-4R grown in Trypticase-yeast extract-fructose medium at 55 C. The cell walls were purified by treatment with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and incubation with deoxyribonuclease and trypsin. The cell wall peptidoglycan contained glucosamine, muramic acid, alpha, epsilon-diaminopimelic acid, and glutamic acid. Low amounts of glycine, galactosamine, serine, aspartic acid, lysine, and valine were also present. The relative mole ratios of glutamic acid-alpha, epsilon-diaminopimelic acid-glycine-alanine were 1.00:1.26:0.08:1.55. The cell walls were free from ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid and contained less than 0.2% chloroform-methanol extractable lipid and 0.09 mumole of phosphorus per mg of cell wall. Teichoic acid was not detected in the cell walls of this organism. Cell walls isolated without treatment with SDS contained 7.5% chloroform-methanol extractable lipid, 0.24 mumole of phosphorus per mg of cell wall, and relatively high concentrations of all amino acids. These results suggest that the extracted lipid is not a cell wall component per se, but a contaminant from the lipoprotein cell membrane.
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PMID:Chemical composition of the cell walls of Bacillus stearothermophilus. 603 16

1. The nature of the electrophoretic heterogeneity of ovomucoid was investigated. Optimum resolution of the fractions on starch-gel electrophoresis occurred over a narrow range of pH and ionic strength. The pattern was not altered in the presence of 8m-urea but the bands were sharper. Ovomucoid-trypsin complex is stable at pH4.6 but dissociated in 6m-urea. 2. The two major fractions of ovomucoid were eluted from the gels. One of these was virtually free of sialic acid and the other, which contained 0.4mole of sialic acid/mole of protein, split into two components on electrophoresis after neuraminidase treatment. It was concluded that these two components, and likewise the two major fractions of ovomucoid, differ by a unit charge/mol. Differences in sialic acid content account for only part of the electrophoretic heterogeneity of ovomucoid.
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PMID:Electrophoretic properties of ovomucoid. 604 6

1. Pig alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and albumin were isolated from fetal serum by DEAE-Sephadex ion exchange chromatography combined with Cibacron Blue-Sepharose and trypsin-Sepharose adsorptions. 2. AFP, fetal albumin and adult albumin carried 2.6, 2.4, and 1.9 moles of fatty acids per mole of protein, respectively. 3. Most of fatty acids bound to AFP were polyunsaturated: mainly arachidonic (20:4, n-6) and docosahexaenoic (22:6, n-3) acids, which accounted respectively for 21.7 and 18.8% of the total fatty acids. 4. By contrast, the fatty acids found in the albumins (fetal and adult) were preferentially saturated and monounsaturated. 5. Arachidonic acid was a minor component in both albumins, and no docosahexaenoic acid was detected.
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PMID:Long-chain fatty acids bound to alpha-fetoprotein and to serum albumin from fetal and adult pig. 618 69

The low level of enzymatic activity of certain alpha 2-macroglobulin-proteinase complexes could be important to the function of factor VIII/von Willebrand glycoprotein since it is especially sensitive to proteolytic cleavage. To test this possibility, complexes of alpha 2-macroglobulin with plasmin, trypsin, and thrombin were formed in at least a 2:1 molar ratio of alpha 2-macroglobulin:proteinase and tested for effects on the factor VIII procoagulant activity of the factor VIII/von Willebrand glycoprotein. Neither the alpha 2-macroglobulin-trypsin complex nor the alpha 2-macroglobulin-plasmin complex affected factor VIII procoagulant activity. The behavior of the alpha 2-macroglobulin-thrombin complex was different. When alpha 2-macroglobulin and thrombin were incubated in a mole ratio of 3:1 or less, factor VIII procoagulant activity was enhanced to about the same extent as with free thrombin. Even at a 24:1 mole ratio, the mixture could produce 45% of the increase in factor VIII activity obtained with free thrombin. The isolated alpha 2-macroglobulin-thrombin complex could also activate the factor VIII procoagulant function to about 45% of the level obtained with an identical amount of uncomplexed thrombin. Analysis of the alpha 2-macroglobulin-125I-labeled thrombin complexes by rechromatography or by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate indicated that this activation was not due to free thrombin. We conclude that the alpha 2-macroglobulin-thrombin complex retains sufficient proteolytic activity to activate the procoagulant function of factor VIII/von Willebrand glycoprotein despite the latter being a very large substrate, having an estimated molecular weight of 1-20 million.
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PMID:Proteolytic activity of alpha 2-macroglobulin-enzyme complexes toward human factor VIII/von Willebrand factor. 618 90

The formation and structural characteristics of the human alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M)-thrombin complex were studied by intrinsic protein fluorescence, sulfhydryl group titration, electrophoresis in denaturing and nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel systems, and in macromolecular inhibitor assays. The interaction between alpha 2M and thrombin was also assessed by comparison of sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoretic patterns of peptides produced by Staphylococcus aureus V-8 proteinase digests of denatured alpha 2M-125I-thrombin and alpha 2M-125I-trypsin complexes. In experiments measuring fluorescence changes and sulfhydryl group exposure caused by methylamine, we found that thrombin produced its maximum effects at a mole ratio of approximately 1.3:1 (thrombin:alpha 2M). Measurements of the ability of alpha 2M to bind trypsin after prior reaction with thrombin indicated that thrombin binds rapidly at one site on alpha 2M, but occupies the second site with some difficulty. Intrinsic fluorescence studies of trypsin binding to alpha 2M at pH 5.0, 6.5, and 8.0 not only revealed striking differences in trypsin's behavior over this pH range, but also some similarities between the behavior of thrombin and trypsin not heretofore recognized. Structural studies, using sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to measure alpha 2M-125I-thrombin covalent complex formation, indicated that covalency reached a maximum at a mole ratio of approximately 1.5:1. At this ratio, only 1 mol of thrombin is bound covalently per mol of alpha 2M. These gel studies and those of proteolytic digests of denatured alpha 2M-125I-trypsin and alpha 2M-125I-thrombin complexes suggest that proteinases form covalent bonds with uncleaved alpha 2M subunits. The sum of our results is consistent with a mechanism of proteinase binding to alpha 2M in which the affinity of the proteinase for alpha 2M during an initial reversible interaction determines its binding ratio to the inhibitor.
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PMID:Characterization of thrombin binding to alpha 2-macroglobulin. 619 22

Alpha-2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) is a major mammalian plasma proteinase inhibitor and a well-established suppressor of T cell blastogenesis. Its role in modulating T cell-mediated lymphokine production is less well documented. We have isolated and characterized guinea-pig plasma alpha 2M in order to study its role in regulating the elicitation of macrophage agglutination factor (MAggF), a T cell-dependent inflammatory lymphokine closely related to fibronectin. Alpha-2-macroglobulin was purified by a combination of gel chromatography and immunoadsorption to remove contaminating IgM. Purified alpha 2M showed a double band on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. It had a molecular weight of 714,000 which fell to 190,000 on reduction, a pI of 4.8 and bound up to 1.3 moles of trypsin or elastase per mole. The elicitiation of MAggF from 25 X 10(6) purified protein derivative (PPD)-stimulated guinea-pig lymph node cells was inhibited 99% by 2-3 micrograms of biologically active alpha 2M only if the proteinase inhibitor was added to the lymph node cells at the same time as antigen. No inhibition of MAggF production was observed when active alpha 2M was added at the end of culture or when biologically inactive alpha 2M was added to the cultures at any time. MAggF was not elicited from normal cells by PPD, nor did alpha 2M have any effect on these cultures. Purified alpha 2M had no direct effect on MAggF activity in culture supernatants. We suggest that alpha 2M may be involved in modulating antigen-elicited lymphokine production in vivo.
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PMID:Regulation of macrophage agglutination factor production by alpha 2-macroglobulin. 619 93

Rabbit brain phosphofructokinase was purified to homogeneity by a rapid procedure involving affinity chromatography and gel filtration. The enzyme consists of hybrids of the three phosphofructokinase subunit types C, A, and B. The molecular weights of these subunits are 86,000, 84,000, and 80,000, respectively; they are present in brain phosphofructokinase in a ratio of approximately 5:4:1.5. The enzyme as isolated from rabbit brain contains 0.16-0.18 mol phosphate per mole of subunit; another 0.4-0.5 mol phosphate per mole subunit can be incorporated in vitro in the presence of the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. The initial rate of phosphorylation is increased by fructose 2,6-bisphosphate or AMP and decreased by citrate or high concentrations of ammonium sulfate. All three subunit types are phosphorylated in vitro, and the phosphorylation site on each subunit is sensitive to cleavage by trypsin at a terminal region of each subunit. However, these sites show different relative rates of phosphorylation in vitro in the presence of ammonium sulfate. In vitro phosphorylation of brain phosphofructokinase had no affect on specific activity, inhibition by ATP, or activation by fructose 2,6-bisphosphate.
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PMID:Isozyme composition and phosphorylation of brain phosphofructokinase. 623 51

The characteristics of fusion of the membrane of Sendai virus with that of liposomes has been investigated using two different methods to monitor the fusion reaction. The first method, which permits quantitation of lipid fused with virus, depends on separation by centrifugation of unfused liposomes from those fused with virus. The second involves the digestion after fusion of internal viral proteins by trypsin contained in liposomes; this assay is completely independent of exchange of lipid between liposomal and viral membranes in the absence of fusion. A fusion-inactive mutant virus, pa-cl, with an uncleaved F protein served as the appropriate control in these experiments. It was found that fusion of the virus with liposomes that contained no protein required cleavage of the F protein; such cleavage was previously shown to be required for fusion of the virus with cell membranes. This indicates the relevance of this model system for studies of fusion. Kinetic studies indicated that at neutral pH fusion was 88% complete in 10 min at 37 degrees. Investigation of the effects of liposomal lipid composition indicated that the presence of cholesterol in the liposomal membrane was required for fusion; a 0.3-0.4-mole fraction of cholesterol was optimal. The presence of neuraminic acid in the membrane was not essential for fusion. The results obtained are compatible with previous evidence suggesting a hydrophobic interaction between the cleaved F protein and the target membrane during fusion.
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PMID:Fusion of Sendai virus with liposomes: dependence on the viral fusion protein (F) and the lipid composition of liposomes. 630 92


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