Peptide substrates for chymosin (rennin): conformational studies of kappa-casein and some kappa-casein-related oligopeptides by circular dichroism and secondary structure prediction.

Autor: Raap J, Kerling KE, Vreeman HJ, Visser S
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Archives of biochemistry and biophysics [Arch Biochem Biophys] 1983 Feb 15; Vol. 221 (1), pp. 117-24.
DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(83)90127-3
Abstrakt: Circular dichroism spectra of a series of synthetic, kappa-casein-related oligopeptide substrates for chymosin in water and in surfactant solution were determined. The results show that there is a good correlation between the beta-structure forming potential of these peptides as found by using structure-predictive methods and the conformation in dilute sodium dodecyl sulfate solutions. The results support earlier suggestions concerning enzyme-substrate interaction which were made on the basis of X-ray analysis of acid proteinases. A predicted secondary structure of the whole kappa-casein molecule obtained by using a combination of three methods is also presented.
Databáze: MEDLINE