尖吻蝮蛇毒无出血活性纤维蛋白溶解酶的纯化及其理化性质研究

尖吻蝮蛇毒纤维蛋白溶解酶是一种具有纤维蛋白溶解活性的蛋白水解酶 ,常具有出血活性 ,因此 ,寻找具有纤维蛋白溶解活性 ,又无出血活性的纤维蛋白溶解酶十分必要。作者对尖吻蝮蛇毒无出血活性纤维蛋白溶解酶(NHFLE)进行了分离纯化及其理化性质的研究。应用凝胶过滤和离子交换柱层析法分离纯化收集具有酶活性的蛋白峰 ,用 1 2 % SDS-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳作纯度鉴定和测定纤维蛋白溶解酶的相对分子量 ,采用纤维蛋白平板法测定活性。结果从尖吻蝮蛇毒 NHFLE的分离纯化得的单一峰纤维蛋白溶解酶为单一条带 ,其相对分子量为 2 50 0 0 ,没有…     

尖吻蝮蛇毒去纤酶及其临床应用研究

Ottyang,C.等(1967)从尖吻蝮(Agkistrodon acutus)蛇毒中分离纯化得到凝血酶样成分,分子量33500,由17种263个氨基酸组成,具有体内去纤作用,但未见用于临床的报道。杉原久义等(1978)也从尖吻蝮蛇毒中分离纯化得到了一个促凝组分,分子量52000,具有精氨酸酯酶和凝血酶活性,未见体内血液学效应及临床应用的报道。我们从1974年起,对尖吻蝮蛇毒凝血酶样酶进行7较为系统的研究,并研制成“去纤酶注射液”,于1978年首先用于临床,1981年鉴定通过。这是我国最先研制并用于临床的蛇毒酶制剂。它由四个凝血酶样同工酶组成,其分子量分别是33500,68000,19500,30000;它们均由17种氨基酸组成,但组成     

尖吻蝮蛇毒酒的研制

尖吻蝮蛇(别名五步蛇)毒酒是用捏鼻法和挤压法提取尖吻蝮蛇毒液,加入枸杞等中草药用50°粮食白酒浸泡加工、纯化而成。调配成尖吻蝮蛇毒酒,口服一定疗程后,具有抗疲劳,抗衰老,增强免疫力,促进饮食,增进性欲等功能,对皮肤病、牛皮癣(银屑病)治疗有明显疗效。     

尖吻蝮（Deinagkistrodon acutus）生长过程不同时期排毒量及蛇毒组分的变化

对人工培育的4个年龄段尖吻蝮蛇毒和野生成体尖吻蝮蛇毒进行了聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳分析。结果显示：3龄以前尖吻蝮蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱,无论是在分带、泳动率及相应组分的量等方面,均呈现一定的差异,但随着尖吻蝮蛇龄的增长,蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱与野生成蛇蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱越来越接近。3龄尖吻蝮生长发育达到性成熟,其蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱与野生成蛇趋于一致。蛇毒组分的变化,提示了尖吻蝮的生长发育进程。     

福建产尖吻蝮蛇(Agkistrodon acutus)蛇毒的柱层析分离及酶活力和某些生理效应的测定

用二乙氨基乙基葡聚糖凝胶A—50(DEAE-Sephadex A—50)对福建产尖吻蝮蛇蛇毒进行柱层析分离,获得11个蛋白峰。其中第一峰具有蛋白水解酶及磷酸二酯酶活力,同时还有纤维蛋白溶解作用及局部出血作用。第Ⅵ峰具有较强的精氨酸酯酶活力及凝血酶样的直接凝血效应。第Ⅰ及Ⅳ峰能明显延长血液凝固时间,呈抗凝血效应。第Ⅹ峰具有明显的毒性作用,腹腔注射于小白鼠,可致远隔部位的皮下、肌肉,胸壁内侧以及腹腔等处出血甚至死亡。 尖吻蝮蛇粗毒具有较高的蛋白水解酶、精氨酸酯酶、5′一核苷酸酶及磷酸二酯酶的活力,而碱性磷酸单酯酶、L—氨基酸氧化酶及磷酯酶A的活力均较低,胆碱酯酶的活力近于零。     

王锦蛇血清对尖吻蝮蛇毒的抑制作用

目的 探讨王锦蛇血清对尖吻蝮蛇毒的抑制作用。方法 王锦蛇血清与不同剂量的尖吻蝮蛇毒分别混合后,注射到小鼠背皮下,测定王锦蛇血清对尖吻蝮蛇毒的抗出血活力;腹腔注射此混合物后,测定王锦蛇血清对尖吻蝮蛇毒的抗毒效价;先后注射尖吻蝮蛇毒和王锦蛇血清,测定王锦蛇血清对尖吻蝮蛇毒引起的死亡、组织损伤和炎症的抑制、保护和治疗作用。结果 1ml王锦蛇血清可完全抑制10mg（干重）的尖吻蝮蛇毒的出血活力;1ml王锦蛇血清可中和11mg（干重）尖吻蝮蛇毒的致死活力;王锦蛇血清对由尖吻蝮蛇毒引起的致死、组织损伤和炎症有显著的抑制、保护和治疗作用。结论 王锦蛇血清是尖吻蝮蛇毒的强抑制剂,可能成为未来新的蛇伤治疗药物的原料。     

尖吻蝮蛇毒磷脂酶A2基因的克隆与序列分析

从尖吻蝮蛇毒腺中抽提总ＲＮＡ,经ＲＴＰＣＲ扩增磷脂酶Ａ２的基因,以江浙蝮蛇的酸性磷脂酶Ａ２基因为探针杂交筛选克隆,分离得到４种磷脂酶Ａ２基因。经双向测序测定了这些磷脂酶Ａ２同功酶基因的全序列,并由此推导出编码的氨基酸序列。运用计算机软件推算了它们的等电点,按照等电点和结构特征将它们分别命名为尖吻蝮蛇毒酸性磷脂酶Ａ２Ｉ（Ａ．ａＡＰＬＡ２Ｉ）、尖吻蝮蛇毒酸性磷脂酶Ａ２ＩＩ（Ａ．ａＡＰＬＡ２ＩＩ）、尖吻蝮蛇毒碱性磷脂酶Ａ２（Ａ．ａＢＰＬＡ２）和尖吻蝮蛇毒Ｌｙｓ４９磷脂酶Ａ２（Ａ．ａＬｙｓ４９ＰＬＡ２）。其中Ａ．ａＡＰＬＡ２Ｉ的１～１０位氨基酸残基序列同以前分离得到的尖吻蝮蛇酸性磷脂酶Ａ２已测定的１～１０位氨基酸残基序列完全一致。Ａ．ａＬｙｓ４９ＰＬＡ２基因则由于其推导出的４９位氨基酸残基由Ｌｙｓ代替了Ａｓｐ而区别于以前克隆到的磷脂酶Ａ２基因。最后运用计算机软件比较了它们的同源性。这一组磷脂酶Ａ２基因的克隆,将为进一步研究磷脂酶Ａ２的结构与功能的关系提供更多的信息。     

尖吻蝮(Deinagkistron acutus)生长过程不同时期排毒量及蛇毒组分的变化

对人工培育的4个年龄段尖吻蝮蛇毒和野生成体尖吻蝮蛇毒进行了聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳分析.结果显示3龄以前尖吻蝮蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱,无论是在分带、泳动率及相应组分的量等方面,均呈现一定的差异,但随着尖吻蝮蛇龄的增长,蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱与野生成蛇蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱越来越接近.3龄尖吻蝮生长发育达到性成熟,其蛇毒蛋白电泳图谱与野生成蛇趋于一致.蛇毒组分的变化,提示了尖吻蝮的生长发育进程.     

尖吻蝮蛇子一代蛇冬眠繁殖关系研究

目的观察人工饲养子一代尖吻蝮蛇的越冬繁殖与冬眠周期性节律关系。方法对已发育成熟的尖吻蝮蛇子一代蛇,研究其在非冬眠温度(25~29℃)和冬眠温度(11~14℃)条件下,交尾、产卵与冬眠情况。结果保持正常冬眠条件饲养的子一代尖吻蝮蛇,可以正常产卵并孵化,而破坏冬眠条件的则不能正常产卵。结论维持尖吻蝮蛇的冬眠周期性节律对尖吻蝮蛇的繁殖具有重要意义。     

尖吻蝮蛇毒的聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳，冬眠特异蛋白的发现

目的 比较冬眠期、冬眠前后、活动期尖吻蝮蛇毒的组分.方法 聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳.结果 发现了冬眠期尖吻蝮蛇毒中有一个特异性增强的蛋白质成分,进入冬眠几天后,该成分就可以检测到,出眠几天后及活动期蛇毒中不可见.结论 该成分应该与尖吻蝮冬眠密切相关,暂且称其为"冬眠特异蛋白".     

Oligomeric structure and chaperone-like activity of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Drosophila melanogaster</Emphasis> mitochondrial small heat shock protein Hsp22 and arginine mutants in the alpha-crystallin domain

The structure and chaperone function of DmHsp22WT, a small Hsp of Drosophila melanogaster localized within mitochondria were examined. Mutations of conserved arginine mutants within the alpha-crystallin domain (ACD) domain (R105G, R109G, and R110G) were introduced, and their effects on oligomerization and chaperone function were assessed. Arginine to glycine mutations do not induce significant changes in tryptophan fluorescence, and the mutated proteins form oligomers that are of equal or smaller size than the wild-type protein. They all form oligomer with one single peak as determined by size exclusion chromatography. While all mutants demonstrate the same efficiency as the DmHsp22WT in a DTT-induced insulin aggregation assay, all are more efficient chaperones to prevent aggregation of malate dehydrogenase. Arginine mutants of DmHsp22 are efficient chaperones to retard aggregation of CS and Luc. In summary, this study shows that mutations of arginine to glycine in DmHsp22 ACD induce a number of structural changes, some of which differ from those described in mammalian sHsps. Interestingly, only the R110G-DmHsp22 mutant, and not the expected R109G equivalent to human R140-HspB1, R116-HspB4, and R120-HspB5, showed different structural properties compared with the DmHsp22WT.     

Caproyl esterase from rat testis: Purification and action on cumulus cells

Rat caproyl esterase (E.C.3.1.1.1), extracted from testis with Tween 80, was purified by cation exchange and lectin affinity chromatography. The 104-fold purified enzyme had an activity of 840 μmol/hr per mg protein. The purified esterase did not contain any hyaluronidase or N-acetyl-glucosaminidase activity. Electrophoresis on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels revealed a single band of approximately 60,000 molecular weight. The esterase had an isoelectric point of 5.1. Inhibition experiments showed high sensitivity of the enzyme to sulfhydryl agents and complete inactivation by sodium aurothiomalate. The purified caproyl esterase was shown to digest the cumulus matrix from mouse ova.     

Purification and partial characterization of poliovirus protease 2A by means of a functional assay.

The purification of poliovirus protease 2A from infected cells by a functional assay is described. A small synthetic peptide was cleaved specifically by an esterase present in poliovirus-infected cells. Since the enzyme proved extremely unstable in crude extracts a rapid and efficient purification procedure had to be developed. By treatment with different detergents followed by high-speed centrifugation, the esterase activity was separated from inactivating cellular enzymes and was solubilized. Purification to more than 90% homogeneity could be achieved by a single chromatography step, namely, by gel filtration through Superose 12 under fast-protein liquid chromatography conditions. The esterase activity was associated with a protein of 17,000 daltons and copurified with poliovirus protein 2A. Furthermore, antibodies to 2A specifically precipitated the esterase activity. Thus, the esterase was identified as poliovirus protease 2A. Inhibition studies with known protease inhibitors revealed that 2A is probably a sulfhydryl protease. Of the metal ions tested, only zinc exerted significant inhibitory effects. The esterase activity was optimal near neutral pH and had an extremely short half-life at physiological temperatures.     

Isolation and characterization of a fatty acyl esterase from rat lung

In an effort to facilitate studies of the reaction involved in the removal of fatty acids from acyl proteins, we have synthesized an octanoic acid ester of doubly blocked serine, specifically octanoyl N-carbobenzoxy-L-serine-benzyl ester (octanoyl boc-serine), and used it as a substrate to guide the purification of an esterase from rat lung. The esterase was purified 228-fold by column chromatography on DE-52 cellulose, hydroxylapatite, octyl-Sepharose, and concanavalin A-Sepharose and by HPLC gel filtration. The final enzyme preparation ran as a single 77,000-Da band when subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and exhibited a single symmetrical peak (sedimentation coefficient, 4.5 S) when centrifuged through a sucrose density gradient (empirical Mr, 63,000). The esterase is an acidic protein, pI 4.1, and is very active against p-nitrophenyl esters comprised of C4-C14 fatty acids; the highest specific activity (26.5 mumol/min/mg) was obtained using p-nitrophenyl caprylate as substrate. The pH optimum of the lung esterase is near 8.0 and the activity on octanoyl boc-serine is maximum when 0.3% (w/v) Myrj-52 is included in the assay medium. The activity of the esterase is not dependent on calcium ions. The enzyme does not remove acyl groups from the G-protein of vesicular stomatitis virus or the proteolipid of bovine brain. The possible role of the esterase in the metabolism of acylated proteins is considered.     

Isolation and properties of carboxypeptidase from leaves of wounded tomato plants

A carboxypeptidase was purified to homogeneity from upper, unwounded leaves of tomato plants in which carboxypeptidase activity had been induced to increase over three-fold by severely wounding the lower leaves. The carboxypeptidase was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, affinity chromatography, and finally by gel permeation chromatography. Electrophoresis at pH 4.3 and isoelectric focusing showed only a single band. The isoelectric point was 5.2 and the MW 105 000. Tomato carboxypeptidase possessed both peptidase and esterase activities and it sequentially hydrolysed amino acids from the carboxyl-terminal end of insulin chain B. It was optimally active at pH 6–7 on peptidase substrates, and at pH 8 on esterase substrates. The enzyme was inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate and incorporated 1 mol of DFP-[³H]. per mol of enzyme. Both peptidase and esterase activities were strongly inhibited by HgCl₂ but not by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate or iodoacetamide. Carboxypeptidase inhibitor from potatoes did not inhibit the enzyme.     

Isolation of a galactose-free 20-kDa fragment exhibiting butyrylcholine esterase and aryl acylamidase activity from human serum butyrylcholine esterase by limited alpha-chymotrypsin digestion

Purified human serum butyrylcholine esterase (approximately 90-kDa subunit), which also exhibits aryl acylamidase activity, was subjected to limited alpha-chymotrypsin digestion. Three major protein fragments of approximately 50 kDa, approximately 21 kDa and approximately 20 kDa were found to be produced, as observed by SDS-gel electrophoresis of the chymotryptic digest. The purified butyrylcholine esterase could fully bind to a Ricinus-communis-agglutinin-Sepharose column but after chymotryptic digestion about 15-20% of the enzyme activity remained unbound and was recovered in the run-through fractions. Sephadex G-75 chromatography of the chymotryptic digest showed an enzymatically active fragment eluted at an approximate molecular mass of 20 kDa, apart from the undigested butyrylcholine esterase eluted at the void volume. The butyrylcholine esterase fragment that did not bind to Ricinus communis agglutinin also was eluted at an approximate molecular mass of 20 kDa from a Sephadex G-75 column. This enzymatically active low-molecular-mass fragment from Sephadex G-75 chromatography showed a single protein band of approximately 20 kDa on SDS-gel electrophoresis. Neutral sugar analysis of the approximately 20 kDa fragment showed the presence of mannose only, whereas the undigested butyrylcholine esterase showed the presence of both mannose and galactose. Amino-terminal-sequence analysis of the approximately 20 kDa fragment showed the sequence Arg-Val-Gly-Ala-Leu, which agrees with amino acid residues 147-151 reported for human serum butyrylcholine esterase [Lockridge et al. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 549-557]. Both cholinesterase and aryl acylamidase activities were co-eluted in all chromatographic procedures. The results suggested that limited alpha-chymotrypsin digestion of human serum butyrylcholine esterase resulted in the formation of a approximately 20-kDa enzymatically active fragment with Arg147 as its N-terminal residue and which was devoid of galactose.     

Hydrophobic-ionic chromatography: its application to microbial glucose oxidase, hyaluronidase, cholesterol oxidase, and cholesterol esterase

Glucose oxidase from Aspergillus niger, hyaluronidase from Streptomyces hyalurolyticus, and cholesterol oxidase and cholesterol esterase from Pseudomonas fluorescens were effectively adsorbed on an Amberlite CG-50 column, when the cell-free cultured medium or the cultured medium with cell extract and without cell debris was applied without desalting but at pH less than or equal to 4.5. At the acidic pH, all the ion-exchange groups (-COOH) exist in the protonated form; the adsorption is not due to electrostatic attraction, but to hydrophobic interaction. The enzymes thus adsorbed were effectively eluted by increasing pH, at which the ion-exchange groups became dissociated. This type of adsorption-elution is called hydrophobic-ionic chromatography. By a single run of chromatography, glucose oxidase, hyaluronidase, cholesterol oxidase, and cholesterol esterase were purified 30-fold, 12-fold, 45-fold, and 20-fold with yields of 82%, 83%, 80%, and 90%, respectively. This indicates that hydrophobic-ionic chromatography on an Amberlite CG-50 column is effective for the purification of various enzymes, provided that they are stable at the acidic pH.     

Purification and properties of three esterases from Brevibacterium sp. R312

C. LAMBRECHTS, J. ESCUDERO AND P. GALZY. 1995. The esterases of Brevibacterium sp. R312 were found to have an intracellular location. Electrophoresis of lysed cell supernatant fluids revealed seven bands of esterase activity in the presence of α-naphthyl acetate. Eight esterases were separated by anion exchange chromatography. The three main esterases (esterase 4b, 2 and 4a) of Brevibacterium sp. R312 were purified. The molar masses, the pH optima, the temperature optima and heat stabilities were determined. Esterase 2 differed from the two others in sensitivity to inhibitors. Esterase 4b differed from esterases 2 and 4a in its substrate specificity. This enzyme hydrolyses aliphatic and nitrophenyl esters. The spectrum of activity of the two other esterases is narrower. They hydrolysed only naphthyl esters and, in the case of esterase 2, tributyrate and ethyl butyrate.     

Mode of action of pectic enzymes. II. Further purification of exopolygalacturonate lyase and pectinesterase from Clostridium multifermentans

Exopolygalacturonate lyase and pectinesterase from Clostridium multifermentans were purified 156-fold and 178-fold, respectively, by gel filtration chromatography on Sephadex G-200. The activities of both enzymes coincided in a single protein peak. Profiles of the two activities also coincided in diethylaminoethyl-cellulose chromatography and zonal centrifugation. These studies indicated that the esterase and the lyase were either complexed or similar molecular species. The former seems more probable because of the relatively high molecular weight. Both activities were most stable at pH 6.0. The esterase was inactivated rapidly at pH 5 or 7. Lyase preparations were freed of pectinesterase activity by heating for 30 min at 38 C and pH 7.0.