PROTEINS OF THE KIDNEY MICROVILLAR MEMBRANE - THE AMPHIPATHIC FORMS OF ENDOPEPTIDASE PURIFIED FROM PIG KIDNEYS
PROTEINS OF THE KIDNEY MICROVILLAR MEMBRANE - THE AMPHIPATHIC FORMS OF ENDOPEPTIDASE PURIFIED FROM PIG KIDNEYS
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DOI:
10.1042/bj2110743
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
KENNY, AJ
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作者:
FULCHER, IS;KENNY, AJ
The purification of detergent-solubilized kidney microvillar endopeptidase (EC 3.4.24.11) by immunoadsorbent chromatography is described. The product (the d-form) was 270-fold purified compared with the homogenate of kidney cortex and was obtained in a yield of 5%. It was free of other peptidase activities and homogeneous by electrophoretic analyses. It contained about 15% carbohydrate and 1 Zn atom/subunit. Two trypsin-treated forms were also characterized. One (dt-form) was obtained by treatment of the d-form. The other (tt-form) was the result of solubilizing the membrane by treatment with toluene and trypsin. All 3 forms had apparent subunit Mr [molecular ratio] values of .apprx. 89,000, but the d-form appeared to be slightly larger than the other 2. Estimates of Mr by gel filtration showed that of the tt-form to be 216,000 whereas those of the other forms were 320,000. An estimate of the detergent (Triton X-100) bound to the d- and dt-forms accounted for this difference. By several criteria, including charge-shift crossed immunoelectrophoresis and hydrophobic chromatography, the d- and dt-forms were shown to be amphipathic molecules. The tt-form was hydrophilic in its properties. Differences in ionic properties were also noted, consistent with the loss, in the case of the dt-form, of a positively charged peptide. The native endopeptidase may be a dimeric molecule, each subunit being anchored in the membrane by a relatively small region of the polypeptide close to one or other terminus. The d- and dt-forms had similar enzyme activity when assayed by the hydrolysis of 125I-insulin B-chain. Chelating agents and phosphoramidon inhibited the endopeptidase. The kinetic constants were determined by a new 2-stage fluorometric assay using glutarylglycylglycylphenylalanine 2-naphthylamide as substrate and aminopeptidase N (EC 3.4.11.2) to hydrolyse phenylalanine 2-naphthylamide. The Km was 68 .mu.M and Vmax 484 nmol/min per (mg of protein).