Protein chemistry of the Neurospora crassa plasma membrane H+-ATPase.
Protein chemistry of the Neurospora crassa plasma membrane H+-ATPase.
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粗糙脉孢菌质膜 H-ATP 酶的蛋白质化学。
DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(88)90187-x
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Scarborough,GA
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作者:
SubrahmanyeswaraRao,U;HennesseyJr,JP;Scarborough,GA
A highly effective procedure for fragmenting the Neurospora crassa plasma membrane H+-ATPase and purifying the resulting peptides is described. The enzyme is cleaved with trypsin to form a limit digest containing both hydrophobic and hydrophilic peptides, and the hydrophobic and hydrophilic peptides are then separated by extraction with an aqueous ammonium bicarbonate solution. The hydrophilic peptides are fractionated by Sephadex G-25 column chromatography into three pools, and the individual peptides in each pool are purified by high-performance liquid chromatography. The hydrophobic peptides are dissolved in neat trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), diluted with chloroform-methanol (1:1), and the hydrophobic peptide solution thus obtained is then fractionated by Sephadex LH-60 column chromatography in chloroform-methanol (1:1) containing 0.1% TFA. The recoveries in all of the above procedures are greater than 90%. The N-terminal amino acid sequences of three of the hydrophobic H+-ATPase peptides purified by this methodology have been determined, which establishes the position of these peptides in the 100,000 Da polypeptide chain by reference to the published gene sequence, and documents the sequencability of the hydrophobic peptides purified in this way. This methodology should facilitate the identification of a variety of amino acid residues important for the structure and function of the H+-ATPase molecule. Moreover, the overall strategy for working with the protein chemistry of the H+-ATPase should be applicable to other amphiphilic integral membrane proteins as well.