麻蝇幼虫肠道蛋白酶BGP的分离纯化及性质

棕尾别麻蝇幼虫肠液经ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ后,Ｘ光片显影,呈现两条蛋白酶活性带．ＩＥＦ后,两条蛋白酶活性带的等电点分别为ｐＨ７．７和６．８．麻蝇幼虫肠液经５５％～７５％硫酸铵沉淀,以及连续两次制备等电聚焦,分离纯化出等电点约为ｐＨ７．７,分子量约为３５ｋＤ的蛋白酶ＢＧＰ．该酶能分解酪蛋白和类胰蛋白酶专一底物Ｂｚ－Ｐｈｅ－Ｖａｌ－ＡｒｇＮＡ,不能分解弹性蛋白酶专一底物ｅｌａｓｔｉｎ－ＣｏｎｇｏＲｅｄ和类胰凝乳蛋白酶专一底物Ｓｕｃ（Ａｌａ）２Ｐｒｏ－ＰｈｅＮＡ．ＳＢＢＩ,Ｌｅｕｐｅｐｔｉｎ和ＰＭＳＦ能强烈抑制其活性．专一底物和抑制剂的结果表明,ＢＧＰ是一种类胰蛋白酶．其最适反应温度为５０℃,最适作用ｐＨ为８．５．不耐高温,５０℃保温３０ｍｉｎ活性急剧下降．Ｈｇ２＋,Ｚｎ２＋和Ｃｕ２＋能抑制酶活性．Ｃａ２＋,Ｍｇ２＋对酶无激活作用,ＥＤＴＡ无抑制作用．     

华广虻(Tabanusamaenus Walker)溶纤活性蛋白的纯化及生物活性分析

经过 ７５％ 饱和度硫酸铵沉淀、 Ｓｅｐｈａｄｅｘ Ｇ ７５ 凝胶过滤层析、 Ｌｙｓ Ｓｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ ４ Ｂ 亲和层析和电泳制备洗脱,从华广虻（ Ｔａｂａｎｕｓ ａｍ ａｅｎｕｓ Ｗ ａｌｋｅｒ）腹部组织匀浆液中分离纯化出分子量约为 ６７ｋ Ｄ 的溶纤活性蛋白 Ｔ Ａ Ｆ Ｐ经纤维蛋白平板测定表明, Ｔ Ａ Ｆ Ｐ 只具有纤溶酶作用,不具有激活纤溶酶原的作用;但 Ｔ Ａ Ｆ Ｐ 能分解纤溶酶原激活剂的生色底物—— Ｃｈｒｏｍ ｏｚｙｍ Ｕ Ｋ 及 Ｓ ２２８８还能水解胰蛋白酶专一底物 Ｂｚ Ｐｈｅ Ｖａｌ Ａｒｇ Ｎ Ａ 及 Ｃ Ｂ Ｚ Ｇｌｙ Ｐｒｏ Ａｒｇ Ｎ Ａ,表明 Ｔ Ａ Ｆ Ｐ具有类胰蛋白酶活性,专一水解精氨酸形成的酰胺键（或肽键） Ｔ Ａ Ｆ Ｐ无胰凝乳蛋白酶活性      

蟾蜍细胞溶素的纯化及其生化特性研究

利用阴离子交换和凝胶过滤柱层析等方法对蟾蜍卵黄外被细胞溶素进行了分离纯化,获得了高纯度的样品．该酶的质量为３２ｋＤ,其特异性ＭＣＡ－人工合成底物为Ｂｏｃ－Ｇｌｎ－Ａｒｇ－Ａｒｇ－ＭＣＡ,能被ＤＦＰ、ＳＢＴＩ、ｌｅｕｐｅｐｔｉｎ和ｐ－ＡＭＰＳＦ等蛋白酶抑制剂所强烈抑制,但不受ｃｈｙｍｏｓｔａｔｉｎ、ｂｅｓｔａｔｉｎ、Ｅ－６４和ＥＤＴＡ等的影响,表明该酶是一种丝氨酸类型的蛋白酶     

非洲爪蟾孵化酶的纯化及其部分生化特性研究

本文以ＧＳＴ－ＵＶＳ．２抗体和卵黄膜为检测手段,采用凝胶过滤和离子交换等方法将非洲爪蟾（Ｘｅｎｏｐｕｓｌａｅｖｉｓ）孵化酶纯化了９０倍以上,并研究了其酶活性和生化特性。实验发现,孵化酶分子量为６０ｋＤ,有很强的蛋白酶活性和卵黄膜溶解活性;它很不稳定,在纯化时极易降解为４０ｋＤ分子,４０ｋＤ分子没有卵黄膜溶解活性,但仍有很强的蛋白酶活性。４０ｋＤ分子很可能只代表６０ｋＤ分子中的蛋白酶功能区,而丢失了两个ＣＵＢ重复区。孵化酶对ＥＤＴＡ和金属离子非常敏感、又为ｐ－ＡＰＭＳＦ等胰蛋白酶抑制剂所强烈抑制,表明它是属于胰蛋白酶类型的一种金属蛋白酶。其特异性ＭＣＡ－底物为Ｂｏｃ－Ｌｅｕ－Ｇｌｙ－Ａｒｇ－ＭＣＡ。     

巨尾阿丽蝇幼虫肠道蛋白酶的分离纯化及性质

巨尾阿丽蝇幼虫肠液ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ后,Ｘ光片显影呈现３条蛋白酶活性带。ＩＥＦ后出现２条蛋白酶活性带,等电点分别为ＰＨ８．５和ＰＨ７．７。肠液经硫铵沉淀,ＳｅｐｈａｄｅｘＧ－７５凝胶过滤,ＳｅｐｈａｄｅｘＤＥＡＥＡ－２５离子交换和ＳＢＢＩ－Ｓｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ４Ｂ亲和层析,分离化出分子量约为１４ＫＤ的巨尾阿丽蝇蛋白酶。     

B22Asn人胰岛素突变体的研究

通过ＤＮＡ定点突变法将人胰岛素Ｂ２２Ａｒｇ改造成Ｂ２２Ａｓｎ,去除其一级结构中碱性蛋白酶位点,以期提高胰岛素在体内的稳定性,突变体基因克隆到表达载体ＰＢＶ２２０中,在Ｅ．ｃｏｌｉ ＤＨ５α中进行表达,分离纯化后的表达产物经胰蛋白酶和羧肽酶Ｂ联合作用获得重组Ｂ２２Ａｓｎ－人胰岛素,该突变胰岛素具有抗胰蛋白酶水解能力,但是其与受体的结合能力只有标准猪胰岛素的１２．４％,胰岛素结构中的Ｂ２２Ａｒｇ可能在     

大鼠隔区一氧化氮合酶阳性神经元的分布和脑缺血后的变化

大鼠隔区一氧化氮合酶阳性神经元的分布和脑缺血后的变化ＤＩＳＴＲＩＢＵＴＩＯＮＡＮＤＩＳＣＨＥＭＩＡＩＮＤＵＣＥＤＣＨＡＮＧＥＳＯＦＮＩＴＲＩＣＯＸＩＤＥＳＹＮＴＨＡＳＥＰＯＳＩＴＩＶＥＮＥＵＲＯＮＳＩＮＴＨＥＳＥＰＴＡＬＡＲＥＡＯＦＲＡＴ关键词大鼠...     

大鼠骨骼肌多催化功能蛋白酶的提取、鉴定及其抗血清的制备

为了研究多催化功能蛋白酶（ｍｕｌｔｉｃａｔａｌｙｔｉｃａｌｐｒｏｔｅｉｎａｓｅ,ＭＣＰ）在负氮平衡形成中的作用,以大鼠骨骼肌为原料,提取此酶并制备其抗血清．将大鼠骨骼肌粗提物经４５％～６５％饱和度硫酸铵分级盐析、阴离子交换层析和凝胶过滤,最后从Ｓｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ４Ｂ层析柱上获得单一活性洗脱峰．酶活性用Ｃａｒｂｏｂｅｎｚｏｘｙ－Ｖａｌ－Ｇｌｙ－Ａｒｇ－４－ｎｉｔｒｉｎｉｌｉｄｅａｃｅｔａｔｅ作底物检测．非变性ＰＡＧＥ银盐染色显示单一区带的骨骼肌多催化功能蛋白酶,ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ银盐染色显示１０条亚基电泳区带,分子量在２５～３２ｋＤ之间．纯化的酶免疫兔８周后,抗血清效价达１３２,用分级盐析和离子交换层析纯化抗血清,显示单一电泳区带的ＩｇＧ．Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ－ｂｌｏｔ分析显示只在２５～３２ｋＤ之间出现多条亚基区带．这些结果提示已获得电泳纯ＭＣＰ及其较高特异性的多克隆抗体．     

猴免疫缺陷病毒SIV核心蛋白基因在大肠杆菌中表达的研究

应用多聚酶链反应（ＰＣＲ）,直接从ＳＩＶ感染的猴艾滋病（ＳＡＩＤＳ）模型猴的外周血淋巴细胞总ＤＮＡ中扩增出７６７ｂｐ的ＳＩＶ核心蛋白Ｐ２７基因片段。扩增产物经ＥｃｏＲＩ及ＳａｌＩ双酶切后,克隆入相同酶切的表达质粒ｐＢＶ２２０中,获得含ＳＩＶ核心蛋白基因片段的重组质粒ｐＢＶＳＧ,并进行ＤＮＡ序列分析。用该重组质粒转化大肠杆菌ＤＨ５ａ经筛选、增殖及４２℃温度诱导,ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ表明外源基因表达蛋白含量占菌体总蛋白１４．５％,Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ－ｂｌｏｔ证实表达产物能被ＳＩＶＰ２７单克隆抗体及ＳＡＩＤＳ模型猴血清中特异性抗体识别。     

棕背鼠最适生境及其主导因子分析

棕背鼠最适生境及其主导因子分析ＴＨＥＯＰＴＩＭＡＬＢＩＯＴＯＰＥＯＦＬＡＲＧＥ－ＴＯＯＴＨＥＤＲＡＤ－ＢＡＣＫＥＤＶＯＬＥＡＮＤＴＨＥＡＮＡＬＹＳＥＳＯＦＩＴＳＭＡＩＮＦＡＣＴＯＲＳＫｅｙｗｏｒｄｓＬａｒｇｅ－ｔｏｏｔｈｅｄｒａｄ－ｄａｃｋｅｄｖｏｌ...     

PURIFICATION AND PARTIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A GUT TRYPSIN-LIKE PROTEASE FROM LARVAE OF FLESH FLY BOETTCHERISCA PEREGRIN A (DIPTERA: SARCOPHAGAE)

Abstract A 16kD protease was purified from the gut extract of larvae of Boettcherisca peregrina , after ammonium sulfate precipitation, DEAE-Sephadex A-25 ion-exchange chromatography and SBBI-Sepharose 4B affinity chromatography. The results of substrate and inhibitor specificity indicated that the protease behaved as a trypsin-like protease. It possesses high activity against non-specific substrate casein and Hide powder azure, and against trypsin-specific substrates Bz-Phe-Val-Arg NA, Bz-Pro-Phe-Arg NA and Bz-Val-Gly-Arg NA. It can be strongly inhibited by PMSF, phenymethysulfonyl fluoride (serine protease inhibitor), SBBI, soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor and Leupeptin (trypsin-specific inhibitor). Activity of this protease was found to be maximal at the alkaline range of pH 8. 5–9. 5.     

FIBRINOLYTIC PROTEASES FROM THE GUT OF LARVAE OF FLESH FLY, BOETTCHERISCA PEREGRINA (DIPTERA: SARCOPHAGAE): PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

Abstract Three fibrinolytic proteases, which were designated as BPGFF'l, BPGFP2 and BPGFP3 individually, were purified from the gut extract of larvae of Boettcherisca peregrina fed on artificial diet containing fibrin-rich pig blood-coagulated block. BPGFP1 consists of two subunits with MW 32 000 and 30 000. Both BPGFP2 and BPGFP3 are monomer with MW 40 000 and 28 000, respectively. These three proteases am similar in substrate and inhibitor specificity. All of them possess high activities against fibrinolytic protease specific substrates such as fibrin, Chromzym P, Chromzym UK and S-2288. They also strongly hydrolyze trypsin-specific substrates Bz-Phe-Val Arg NA, cBz Gly-Pro-Arg NA, Bz-Pro-Phe-Arg NA and Bz-Val-Gly-Arg NA. PMSF, STI, LBTI and SBBI can inhibit activity of these proteases. Activities of these three fibrinolytic proteases were found to be maximal at alkaline range of pH 9.0 ˜ 10.0.     

Isolation and characterization of a trypsin fraction from the pyloric ceca of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

A trypsin fraction was isolated from the pyloric ceca of New Zealand farmed chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) by ammonium sulfate fractionation, acetone precipitation and affinity chromatography. The chinook salmon enzyme hydrolyzed the trypsin-specific synthetic substrate benzoyl-dl-arginine-p-nitroanilide (dl-BAPNA), and was inhibited by the general serine protease inhibitor phenyl methyl sulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), and also by the specific trypsin inhibitors — soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI) and benzamidine. The enzyme was active over a broad pH range (from 7.5 to at least pH 10.0) at 25 °C and was stable from pH 4.0 to pH 10.0 when incubated at 20 °C, with a maximum at pH 8.0. The optimum temperature for the hydrolysis of dl-BAPNA by the chinook salmon enzyme was 60 °C, however, the enzyme was unstable at temperatures above 40 °C. The molecular mass of the chinook salmon trypsin was estimated as 28 kDa by SDS–PAGE.     

Protein C inhibitor. Purification from human plasma and characterization

Protein C inhibitor was isolated from human plasma using conventional chromatographic technique consisting of barium citrate adsorption, polyethylene glycol fractionation, DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B treatment, ammonium sulfate fractionation, dextran sulfate-agarose chromatography, gel filtration on ACA-44, and DEAE-Sephacel chromatography. The purified protein C inhibitor is a single polypeptide chain with an apparent Mr = 57,000 on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The inhibitor is heterogeneous in pI: six pIs exist between pH 7.4 and 8.6. The inhibitor was shown to be different from the already known plasma protease inhibitors by chemical and immunological analyses. It migrates to the late alpha 1-globulin region on agarose gel electrophoresis. The inhibitor reduced the amidolytic activity of activated protein C noncompetitively by forming a 1:1 molar complex with the enzyme, determined by the use of a fluorogenic substrate toward activated protein C (Boc-Leu-Ser-Thr-Arg-4-methylcoumaryl-7-amide). The inhibition constant (Ki) of the inhibitor against activated protein C was 5.8 x 10(-8) M. The inhibitor also blocked the prolongation of activated partial thromboplastin time by activated protein C. The immunoglobulin which was produced by the inhibitor completely removed the inhibitory activity present in normal human plasma against activated protein C. This suggests that the inhibitor which we have isolated is the only inhibitor in plasma against activated protein C.     

Design and characterization of a hybrid miniprotein that specifically inhibits porcine pancreatic elastase

Studying protease/peptide inhibitor interactions is a useful tool for understanding molecular recognition in general and is particularly relevant for the rational design of inhibitors with therapeutic potential. An inhibitory peptide (PMTLEYR) derived from the third domain of turkey ovomucoid inhibitor and optimized for specific porcine pancreatic elastase inhibition was introduced into an inhibitor scaffold to increase the proteolytic stability of the peptide. The trypsin-specific squash inhibitor EETI II from Ecballium elaterium was chosen as the scaffold. The resulting hybrid inhibitor HEI-TOE I (hybrid inhibitor from E. elaterium and the optimized binding loop of the third domain of turkey ovomucoid inhibitor) shows a specificity and affinity to porcine pancreatic elastase similar to the free inhibitory peptide but with significantly higher proteolytic stability. Isothermal titration calorimetry revealed that elastase binding of HEI-TOE I occurs with a small unfavorable positive enthalpy contribution, a large favorable positive entropy change, and a large negative heat capacity change. In addition, the inhibitory peptide and the hybrid inhibitor HEI-TOE I protected endothelial cells against degradation following treatment with porcine pancreatic elastase.     

Production and properties of an alkaline protease by Aureobasidium pullulans

A strain of the yeast-like fungus Aureobasidium pullulans was grown on whey to produce an extracellular protease. The protease was totally inhibited by the serine inhibitor, phenyl methyl sulphonyl fluoride (PMSF), and partially inhibited by the chelating agent EDTA. The enzyme showed maximal activity in the alkaline range with an optimum pH of 9·5–10·5. The optimum temperature for protease activity was 41C. As well as being active against the non-specific proteolytic substrate Azocoll, the protease readily degraded purified α-casein. A molecular weight of 27000 ± 350 was determined for the protease using gel filtration chromatography.     

Comparison of serotonin uptake by dense bodies inside and outside human platelets

ATP-dependent proteolysis in reticulocyte extracts is stimulated by ubiquitin, a polypeptide which is covalently conjugated to proteins. It has been proposed that ATP and ubiquitin act by repressing an inhibitor of an ATP-independent protease, rather than by conjugation to substrate proteins [Speiser, S. and Etlinger, J.D. (1983) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 3577-3580]. We find that the inhibitor preparation used by these authors contains a positively required factor of the ATP-ubiquitin proteolytic system, which can be separated from two types of protease inhibitors by gel filtration chromatography. The following observations indicate that the "inhibitors" are endogenous protease substrates which compete with the labeled substrate: (a) inhibition is competitive with exogenous substrate; (b) inhibition is abolished by a preincubation of "inhibitor" with protease prior to the addition of labeled substrate. These findings are not consistent with the notion that the inhibitors play a regulatory role in the ATP-ubiquitin proteolytic pathway.     

Purification and some properties of a neutral protease from human leukocyte granules and its comparison with pancreatic elastase.

1. A cationic protease has been purified from the granule fraction of blood-donor leukocytes by a preparative method including precipitation by acetone and chromatography on Bio-Gel A 1.5 m, CM-Sephadex C-50 and Sephadex G-G-75. 2. The pH optimum against denatured bovine hemoglobin is 7.4. Gel chromatography indicated a molecular weight close to 23 000. 3. This neutral protease (EC 3.4.-.-) is able to split the synthetic esters Z-Ala-NPh and AcAla3OMe, its activity on the former substrate being 2.2 times greater than that of pancreatic elastase, on the latter the same. It differs crucially from pancreatic elastase in having small elastinolytic activity. 4. In cationic disk electrophoresis, neutral protease resolves into three protein bands with lower mobility than lysozyme: all bands exhibit esterolytic activity against 2-acetoxy-3-naphthoic acid o-toluidide, strongly suggesting that they represent isoenzymes. 5. The enzyme is completely inhibited by iPr2P-F, partially so by soybean trypsin inhibitor and Trasylol. Cysteine, EDTA and TosLysCH2Cl have no effect. 6. During chromatography on CM-Sephadex C-50 a more positively charged enzyme(s) was identified. This had hemoglobinolytic activity at pH 7.4 but only a small esterolytic effect on Z-Ala-NPh; it showed only traces of activity against AcAla3OMe.     

A Protease Activity Displaying Some Thrombin-like Characteristics in Conditioned Medium of Zinnia Mesophyll Cells Undergoing Tracheary Element Differentiation

The normal development of tracheary elements (TE) requires a selective degradation of the cytoplasm without loss of the extracellular wall that remains behind as the water-conducting units of xylem. Using zinnia-(Zinnia elegans L. cv. Green Envy) cultured mesophyll cells that synchronously transdifferentiate into TEs, extracellular and intracellular proteases, respectively, have been shown to both trigger death and to execute autolysis as the final component of a programmed cell death (PCD). We report here the appearance in the medium of an unusual proteolytic activity correlated with the PCD process just prior to the autolysis. The activity has a pH optimum of 5.5–6.0 and displays some thrombin characteristics. This protease activity has 1) a 10-fold higher affinity towards a thrombin-specific chromogenic substrate than toward a trypsin-specific chromogenic substrate; 2) a 1000-fold lower sensitivity to soybean trypsin inhibitor (STI) compared to trypsin; and 3) limited ability to cleave the protease-activated receptor-1, the native thrombin substrate. However, the addition of partially purified fraction containing the thrombin-like protease activity to the medium of PCD-competent cells does not prematurely trigger PCD, and the thrombin-specific peptide inhibitor phenylalanine-proline-aspartic acid-chloromethylketone fails to inhibit PCD or tracheary element (TE) formation. This suggests that this protease activity may play a role within the cells in execution of the autolysis or in the collapse of the tonoplast rather than as an extracellular proteolytic activity participating in the chain of events leading to cell death. Online publication: 7 April 2005