无花果蛋白酶在阴离子交换树脂上的固定化

无花果蛋白酶通过８％戊二醛活化载体,共价结合到聚苯乙烯阴离子交换树脂ＧＭ２０１上,固定化作用在ｐＨ７．７,酶浓度０．８ｍｇ／ｇ树脂,４℃下进行６ｈ。得到的固定化酶表观Ｋ_ｍ值（酪蛋白,１．１１×１０~（－４）ｍｏｌ／Ｌ）小于溶液酶Ｋ_ｍ值（１．９６×１０~（－４）ｍｏｌ／Ｌ）;固定化酶活性在ｐＨ６～８保持稳定,溶液酶最适ｐＨ为７．２;固定化酶最适温度由溶液酶的５０～６０℃移至３７℃;固定化酶２５℃保持７ｄ,重复水解酪蛋白７次后,保留８３．３％活性。固定化酶对酪蛋白水解度达４７．５％,对大豆球蛋白达１１．６％。     

Ficin-catalyzed asymmetric aldol reactions of heterocyclic ketones with aldehydes

Ficin from fig tree latex displayed a promiscuous activity to catalyze the direct asymmetric aldol reactions of heterocyclic ketones with aromatic aldehydes. Ficin showed good substrate adaptability to different heterocyclic ketones containing nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur. The enantioselectivities up to 81% ee and diastereoselectivities up to 86:14 (anti/syn) were achieved under the optimized reaction conditions.     

Characterization of acid-induced molten globule like state of ficin

Effect of pH on the conformational behaviour of ficin (EC 3.4.22.3), a cysteine protease from the latex of Ficus carica was monitored by circular dichroism, fluorescence spectroscopy, ANS binding and hydrodynamic studies. The results obtained from near- and far-UV CD, intrinsic fluorescence and ANS binding studies demonstrate that ficin exhibits the characteristic properties of molten globule at acidic conditions between pH 1.4 and 2.0. Ficin at pH 1.4 retained about 74% secondary structure with a substantial loss of tertiary structure. The acid-induced state was found to have a compact shape as measured by Stokes radius on size exclusion chromatography.     

Application of several types of substrates to ficin-catalyzed peptide synthesis

Summary. The capability of ficin, a cystine protease, to form peptide bonds was investigated using several types of N-Boc-amino acid phenyl and naphthyl esters as acyl donor components. Enzyme-catalyzed peptide synthesis was carried out under optimized reaction conditions of pH, acyl acceptor concentration and selection of the best yield organic solvent. It used a condensation of N-Boc-Ala-OpGu and Ala-pNA as a model reaction. The products were obtained in 72–96% yield using 10 different substrates, within a few minutes of reaction time. Authors’ address: Prof. Haruo Sekizaki, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan     

Isolation, characterization and kinetics of goat cystatins

Two cysteine proteinase inhibitors I and II were purified from goat kidney using alkaline denaturation, ammonium sulphate fractionation, gel filtration on Sephadex G-75 and ion exchange chromatography on DEAE cellulose. The purified inhibitors were homogenous and showed a single band on SDS PAGE under reducing and non-reducing conditions with an apparent molecular mass of 67 kDa. The cystatin forms were stable in the range of pH 3–10 and up to 95 °C. Immunological identity with the sheep LMW kininogen was obtained suggesting that the inhibitor is closely related to kininogens. Spectral studies confirm that the inhibitors have predominantly an α-helical structure and undergo major conformational changes during complex formation with papain. The inhibitors had similar inhibitory activities on cysteine proteinases. Both inhibitors inhibited papain, ficin and bromelain competitively, with maximum affinity for papain. The overall lower affinity of these inhibitors to cysteine proteinases compared to other known cystatins can be attributed to the unusual N-terminal sequence where Leu is substituted by Ile. Furthermore, N-terminal sequence analysis revealed maximum homology to mammalian LMW kininogen.     

Protease-catalyzed dipeptide synthesis from N-protected amino acid carbamoylmethyl esters and free amino acids in frozen aqueous solutions

The kinetically controlled synthesis of N-benzyloxycarbonyl (Z)-dipeptides was investigated by the use of free amino acids as nucleophiles and a cysteine protease papain as catalyst. The coupling efficiency was significantly improved by the combined use of the carbamoylmethyl (Cam) ester of a Z-amino acid as acyl donor and frozen aqueous solution (ice, −16 or −24 °C) as reaction medium. The yield of peptide synthesis became high when both P₁- and P^′₁-positions were occupied by small non-polar amino acids (Z-Gly-Gly-OH, 76%; Z-Gly-Ala-OH, 75%; Z-Ala-Ala-OH, 72%). Similar results were observed by the use of ficin as catalyst instead of papain. Furthermore, this strategy was applied to the papain-catalyzed incorporation of a d-configured amino acid such as d-alanine into the resulting peptides. Although the coupling in aqueous solution (30 °C) afforded the desired Z-dipeptides in low yields, the freezing of reaction medium reduced significantly unfavorable hydrolysis of the acyl donors, resulting in improvement of the coupling efficiency (Z-Gly-d-Ala-OH, 80%; Z-Ala-d-Ala-OH, 45%; Z-d-Ala-Ala-OH, 22%).     

几种变性剂对无花果蛋白酶分子去折叠与活力的影响

用不同浓度的变性剂盐酸胍、脲、十二烷基硫酸锂（ＬＤＳ）对无花果蛋白酶（Ｆｉｃｉｎ）变性,用荧光光谱及圆二色谱（ＣＤ谱）监测无花果蛋白酶去折叠过程中的构象变化并与活力变化比较,发现在１－２ｍｏｌ／Ｌ胍浓度及９．２×１０－４ｍｏｌ／ＬＬＤＳ浓度条件下,ＣＤ谱显示的二级结构含量较高,荧光谱的发射峰位刚开始红移,活力的变化则较为显著,表现为胍溶液中激活,ＬＤＳ溶液中失活,揭示酶的这二种变性剂的这二个浓度范围内,可能存在变性中间态。     

Stabilization of ficin extract by immobilization on glyoxyl agarose. Preliminary characterization of the biocatalyst performance in hydrolysis of proteins

A protein extract containing ficin was immobilized on glyoxyl agarose at pH 10 and 25 °C. The free enzyme remained fully active after 24 h at pH 10. However the enzyme immobilized on the support retained only 30% of the activity after this time using a small substrate. After checking the stability of ficin preparations obtained after different enzyme-support multi-interaction times, it was found that it reached a maximum at 3 h (40-folds more stable than the free enzyme at pH 5). The immobilized enzyme was active in a wide range of pH (e.g., retained double activity at pH 10 than the free enzyme) and temperatures (e.g., at 80 °C retained three-folds more activity than the free enzyme). The activity versus casein almost matched the results using the small substrate (60%) at 55 °C. However, in the presence of 2 M of urea, it became three times more active than the free enzyme. The immobilized enzyme could be reused five cycles at 55 °C without losing activity.     

交联葡聚糖结合无花果蛋白酶的制备与性质

本文报道了将Sephadgx G-200与对β-硫酸酯乙砜基苯胺(SESA)首先醚化制备对氨基苯砜乙基交联葡聚糖(ABSE-Sephadex G-200),然后经重氮化固定无花果蛋白酶。固定化酶的活力回收达69％。BANA对该酶固定化过程中的活性变化有保护作用。天然酶与固定化酶都具有良好的耐热性,在69°～70℃,80min固定化酶较天然酶稳定。 用苯甲酰-DL-精氨酰-β-荼胺(BANA)为底物,在半胱氨酸存在下,测定了两种形式酶的动力学性质。在pH7.7的磷酸盐缓冲系统中,37℃,天然无花果蛋白酶的K_m=0.32mol/L;在间歇振摇下固定化酶的表观K′m=1.02mmol/L。最适pH无明显改变,均为pH7.7。     

无花果蛋白酶在胍溶液中的分子折叠与活力变化研究

本文研究无花果蛋白酶（ＥＣ．３．４．４．１２）在不同浓度盐酸胍溶液中分子构象与活力变化关系。酶的内源荧光光谱,圆二色光谱与酶活力的变化表明：荧光光谱呈现二个明显的变化区域,低浓度胍（低于２ｍｏｌ／Ｌ）中,荧光发射峰基本不变,但荧光强度随胍浓度上升,随胍浓度断续增大（高于２ｍｏｌ／Ｌ）,酶的最大发射波长明显红移。当胍浓度低于１ｍｏｌ／Ｌ时,不仅不会使酶失活,反而使酶激活,当胍浓度高于１ｍｏｌ／Ｌ以上时,酶逐渐失活,使酶完全失活的胍浓度为６ｍｏｌ／Ｌ酶的圆二色光谱也随着胍浓度的改变而发生复杂的变化。将荧光变化,ＣＤ谱变化及活力改变结合起来,表明活力的激活与构象的明显变化似是同步发生的,从另一角度进一步说明酶活性部位柔性是充分表现酶活力所必需。