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. 1987 Mar 15;242(3):743–747. doi: 10.1042/bj2420743

Immunoblot analysis of glutaminase peptides in intact and solubilized mitochondria isolated from various rat tissues.

R A Shapiro, W G Haser, N P Curthoys
PMCID: PMC1147773  PMID: 3593273

Abstract

Antibodies were prepared against isolated rat renal glutaminase and affinity-purified against the 65 kDa peptide contained in the purified rat brain glutaminase. The affinity-purified IgGs were then used to compare the glutaminase immunoreactive peptides contained in samples that had been subjected to SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and transferred to nitrocellulose. The purified brain glutaminase and isolated brain mitochondria contain 68 and 65 kDa peptides that exhibit nearly equivalent immunostaining. Partial proteolysis of the isolated 68 and 65 kDa peptides with Staphylococcus aureus V8 proteinase produced an identical pattern of immunoreactive proteolytic fragments. However, digestion of the two peptides with chymotrypsin resulted in similar, but slightly different, patterns. The pattern of immunostaining was unaltered even when the brain mitochondria were solubilized with Triton X-100 and stored for 2 days at 4 degrees C. A very similar pattern was observed when intact renal mitochondria were subjected to immunoblot analysis. However, when renal mitochondria were solubilized, the 68 kDa peptide was rapidly degraded to the 65 kDa form. At 4 degrees C this reaction occurs with apparent first-order kinetics and a t1/2 of 35 min. Degradation of the 65 kDa form of the renal glutaminase occurs with much slower kinetics, but is nearly complete after 24 h. Solubilization of mitochondria isolated from various zones of the kidney indicated that the responsible endogenous proteinase was localized primarily in the cortex. Mitochondria isolated from intestinal or renal papillary tissue contain four glutaminase immunoreactive peptides (Mr 68,000, 65,000, 61,000 and 58,000). The smallest of these peptides is identical in size with the single immunoreactive peptide observed in liver tissue.

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