Two Kinds of Neutral Serine Proteinases in Salted Muscle of Anchovy,Engraulis japonica

Autor: Nobuko Sugiyama, Fumio Nagayama, Mariko Sato, Masami Ishida
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 59:1107-1112
ISSN: 1347-6947
0916-8451
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.59.1107
Popis: Two kinds of proteinases, type-I and type-II, were purified or partially purified from salted muscle of anchovy, Engraulis japonica. Mol. wts. of type-I and type-II proteinases were estimated to 25,000 and 37,000, respectively, on electrophoretic analysis. Both proteinases strongly hydrolyzed synthetic tri or tetrapeptide substrates specific to trypsin, alpha-thrombin, and an activated protein C, while they hardly hydrolyzed Arg-MCA and benzoyl Arg-MCA derivatives. The proteinases were inhibited by common trypsin inhibitors. Optimal pH for the proteinase activities were pH 6.8 (type-I) and pH 7.0 to 7.5 (type-II), and the proteinases showed the highest activities at 45 degrees C (type-I) and 50 degrees C (type-II). The N-terminal amino acid sequence of type-I proteinase, 1I-2V-3G-4G ... (29 residues were identified), was significantly similar to sequences of trypsins and tryptases. Based on these findings, both proteinases were presumed to be kinds of tryptases in E. japonica muscle.
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