Primary structure of two distinct rat pancreatic preproelastases determined by sequence analysis of the complete cloned messenger ribonucleic acid sequences.
Primary structure of two distinct rat pancreatic preproelastases determined by sequence analysis of the complete cloned messenger ribonucleic acid sequences.
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通过完整克隆的信使核糖核酸序列的序列分析确定两种不同的大鼠胰腺前原弹性蛋白酶的一级结构。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00535a053
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发表时间:
1982
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Rutter,WJ
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作者:
MacDonald,RJ;Swift,GH;Quinto,C;Swain,W;Pictet,RL;Nikovits,W;Rutter,WJ
Raymond J. MacDonald, 1" Galvin H. Swift, 1 Carmen Quinto,** William Swain, Raymond L. Pictet, x William Nikovits, and William J. Rutter abstract: The mRNA sequences for two rat pancreatic elastolytic enzymes have been cloned by recombinant DNA technology and their nucleotide sequences determined. Rat elastase I mRNA is 1113 nucleotides in length, plus a poly (A) tail, and encodes a preproelastase of 266 amino acids. The amino acid sequence of the predicted active form of rat elastase I is 84% homologous to porcine elastase 1. Key amino acid residues involvedin determining substrate specificity of porcine elastase 1 are retained in the rat enzyme. The activation peptide of the zymogen does not appear related to that of other mammalian pancreatic serine proteases. The mRNA for elastase I is localized in the rough endoplasmic reticulum of acinar cells, as expected for the site of synthesis of an exocrine secretory enzyme. Rat elastase II mRNA is 910nucleotides in length, plus a poly (A) tail, and encodes a preproenzyme of 271 amino acids. The amino acid sequence is more closely related to porcine elastase 1 (58% sequence identity) than to the other pancreatic serine proteases (33-39% sequence identity). Predictions of substrate preference based upon key amino acid residues that define the substrate binding cleft are consistent with the broad specificity observed for mammalian pancreatic elastase2. The activation peptide is similar to that of the chymotrypsinogens and retains an N-terminal cysteine available to form a disulfide link to an internal conserved cysteine residue. e mammalian exocrine pancreas synthesizes, stores, and secretes approximately 15 enzymes and proenzymes for in-testinal digestion. These secretory proteins account for greater than 80% of the protein synthesis of the gland (Jamieson & Palade, 1967; VanNest et al., 1980). A dominant fraction of the pancreatic secretions is a family of at least seven serine proteases: chymotrypsins A and B, two trypsins, elastases 1 and 2, 1 and kallikrein. The members of this gene family are probably related by evolution from a common ancestral pro-tease (Neurath et al., 1967; deHaen et al., 1975) and have retained similar structure, size, and function. As secretory proteins, the serine proteases are expected to be synthesized initially as precursor proteins (Devillers-Thiery et al., 1975; Rutter et al., 1978) with an amino-terminal signal peptide (Blobel & Sabatini, 1971) that specifies the binding of poly-f From the Division of MolecularBiology of the Department of Biochemistry (RJM and GHS), the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75235, and the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (RJM, CQ, WS, RLP, WN, and WJR), The University of California, San Francisco, California 94143. Received September 9, 1981. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (PCM 8006231 to RJM) and the National Insti-tutes of Health (AM21344 to WJR).* Virginia Lazenby O’Hara fellow.* Present address: Centro de Figacion de Nitrogeno, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. x Present address: Institute de Biologie Moleculaire, Universite Paris VII, Tour 43, 75221 Paris Cedex 05, France.