Purification and partial chemical characterization of human pituitary lipolytic hormone

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 778-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Chrétien ◽  
C. Gilardeau ◽  
N. Seidah ◽  
M. Lis

Frozen human pituitary glands contain a lipotropic hormone which is similar to but not identical with ovine, bovine, and porcine beta-lipotropin. Six of the first seven residues from the N-terminus are [Formula: see text] The C-terminal amino acid is a leucine residue.

1973 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Chrétien ◽  
Claude Gilardeau

ABSTRACT A protein isolated from ovine pituitary glands has been purified, and its homogeneity assessed by NH2- and COOH-terminal amino acid determination, ultracentrifugation studies, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after carboxymethylation. Its chemical and immunochemical properties are closely similar to those of beef and pork neurophysins, less similar to those of human neurophysins. It contains no tryptophan (like other neurophysins) or histidine (like all except bovine neurophysin-I and human neurophysins). It has alanine at the NH2-terminus and valine at the COOH-terminus. Its amino acid composition is similar to, but not identical with those of porcine and bovine neurophysins.


1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 1017-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gilardeau ◽  
M. Chrétien

A lipolytic substance was isolated from porcine pituitary glands. It's amino acid composition, molecular weight, N-terminal amino acid, isoelectric point, and biological activities are reported. These results are compared to the corresponding values of sheep β-lipolytic hormone.


2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marli Lourdes de Oliveira ◽  
Leila Maria Beltramini ◽  
Salvatore Giovanni de Simone ◽  
Maria Helena Nasser Brumano ◽  
Rosemeire Aparecida Silva-Lucca ◽  
...  

A lectin was isolated from the pod saline extract of Caesalpinia tinctoria by dialoconcentration on Centripep-10 and affinity chromatography on chitin column. The purified lectin was partially characterized with respect to its biochemical and structural properties. It contains 8.3 % of carbohydrate and exhibited an agglutinating activity against human erythrocytes (ABO groups). Its amino acid composition was characterized by a great number of acidic and hydrophobic residues and the estimated molecular mass was 12.5 kDa. The presence of only one N-terminal amino acid sequence (D¹-V-P-A-Y-V-Y-V-H-F10-G-F-G-E-E-H-R -D-V-F20-D), showed the homogeneity of the purified lectin. The far-ultraviolet circular dichroism (CD) spectrum of lectin indicated that it contains 10 % a-helix, 38 % b-sheet, 28 % unordered form and 6 % of P II (poly-L-proline II helix conformation).


1991 ◽  
Vol 275 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Hofsteenge ◽  
A Vincentini ◽  
S R Stone

A recombinant pig ribonuclease inhibitor (delta r-RI) lacking 90 or 93 N-terminal amino acid residues was isolated from a preparation of recombinant inhibitor. The kinetic parameters for the inhibition of ribonuclease A by delta r-RI were determined and found to be only slightly altered in comparison with the full-length inhibitor. The deletion did, however, affect the surface properties of RI. The results are discussed in relation to those obtained by Lee & Vallee [(1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 1879-1883].


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