HELIX-COIL TRANSITION OF ISOLATED AMINO TERMINUS OF RIBONUCLEASE
HELIX-COIL TRANSITION OF ISOLATED AMINO TERMINUS OF RIBONUCLEASE
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00779a019
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
KLEE, WA
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作者:
BROWN, JE;KLEE, WA
Materials and MethodsPeptide 1-13 (C-peptide) was prepared by a modification of the cyanogen bromide procedure of Gross and Witkop (1962). In a typical preparation, 504 mg of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A (Sigma Type XII A) was added to 50.4 ml of 70% formic acid containing 1.25 g of cyanogen bromide (Eastman Organic Chemicals, White Label). This solution, which has a molar ratio of ribonuclease methionine residues: CNBr of 1: 80, was stirred slowly in a closed flask at room temperature for 24 hr. The reaction mixture was then diluted with 5-6 volumes of ion-free water, shell frozen, and lyoph-ilized. C-peptide was separated from C'-protein by two passages through a Sephadex G-25 (coarse) column, 118 X 6.5 cm, using 0.2 m acetic acid as solvent. Some slight further purification could be effected by a passage through a 1 X 30 cm Sephadex G-10 column using the same solvent. Amino acid analysis of the lyophilized product, kindly performed for us by Dr. Alan Neims using the automated procedure of Spackman et al.(1958), gave the following results, with the theoretical values in parenthesis: lysine 2.17 (2), histidine 0.98 (1), arginine 0.83 (1), threonine 0.70 (1), glutamic acid 3.10 (3), alanine 3.10 (3), phenylalanine 0.85 (1), aspartic acid 0.03 (0), serine 0.01 (0), glycine 0.01 (0), and homoserine plus homoserine lactone 0.52 (1). No other peaks were observed on the chromatograms. Paper electrophoresis of the product at pH 8.5 shows two ninhydrin-positive spots, the faster of which is converted into the slower (less basic) on brief exposure of the peptide to 0.1 n NaOH. Parks et al.(1963) have ascribed this behaviorof the peptide to the fact that residue 13 exists as an equilibrium mixture of homoserineand its lactone (Armstrong, 1949). Exposure