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The action of proteolytic enzymes on the glycoprotein from pig gastric mucus.

ABSTRACT: A glycoprotein of mol.wt. 2x10(6) was isolated in homogeneous form from pig gastric mucus by isopycnic centrifugation in CsCl but without enzymic digestion or reductive cleavage of disulphide bonds. Digestion of the purified glycoprotein with trypsin, pepsin or Pronase resulted in the formation of glycoprotein subunits, of mol.wt. 5.2x10(5)-5.8x10(5), one-quarter that of the undigested glycoprotein. The glycoprotein subunits were isolated by gel filtration and shown to contain all the carbohydrate present in the undigested glycoprotein, but 18.6-25.6% of the total amino acids originally present were lost on digestion. The relative amount of threonine, serine and proline had increased from 41% (w/w) in the undigested glycoprotein to 61-67% of the total amino acids in the glycoprotein subunits after digestion. The results support the previously proposed structure for the glycoprotein, namely that of four subunits joined by disulphide bridges. These results show the presence of two distinct regions in the glycoprotein molecule, one rich in threonine, serine and proline, which is glycosylated and resistant to proteolyis, whereas the other, with an amino acid composition more characteristic of a globular protein, is not glycosylated and is susceptible to proteolysis. In addition, the region that is susceptible to proteolysis contains the disulphide bridges which join the glycoprotein subunits together to form the gastric glycoprotein.

SUBMITTER: Scawen M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1164705 | biostudies-other | 1977 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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