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Purification and some properties of an alkaline proteinase from rat skeletal muscle.

ABSTRACT: 1. Rat skeletal muscle was homogenized in 0.05M-Tris/HCl, pH 8.5, containing 1M-KCl. Myofibrillar proteins were precipitated by addition of (NH4)2SO4 (33% saturation). 2. The alkaline proteolytic activity that was precipitated with the myofibrillar proteins was solubilized with trypsin (conjugated to Sepharose) and further purified by affinity chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography and gel filtration. 3. The purified enzyme migrates as a single band in polyacrylamide-disc electrophoresis, and has optimum hydrolytic activity with azocasein and [14C]haemoglobin as substrates at pH 9.4 and 9.6 respectively. Its apparent molecular weight, as determined by gel filtration on Sephadex G-75, is 30800. 4. The purified alkaline proteinase is strongly inhibited by equimolar amounts of soya-bean trypsin inhibitor and ovomucoid, whereas di-isopropyl phosphorofluoidate and alpha-toluenesulphonyl fluoride have no effect. On the other hand N-ethylmaleimide and p-chloromercuribenzoate have inhibitory effects on the enzyme activity. 5. Bivalent metal ions (Fe2+, Co2+, Zn2+, Mg2+, Mn2+) diminish the proteolytic activity, at 1mM concentrations. Ca2+ ions and the metal-ion-chelating agent EDTA are without effect on enzyme activity. 6. The enzyme is part of the alkaline proteolytic activity that appears to be associated with myofibrillar proteins.

SUBMITTER: Dahlmann B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1184030 | biostudies-other | 1978 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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