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. 1990 Dec 15;272(3):659–664. doi: 10.1042/bj2720659

Translation of preprochymosin in vitro. Evidence for folding of prochymosin to the native conformation.

A Sheikh 1, R B Freedman 1
PMCID: PMC1149759  PMID: 2268293

Abstract

1. The cDNA coding for preprochymosin has been sub-cloned into the transcription/translation vector pGEM-3Z, the T7 promoter used to transcribe the gene and the product expressed in an 'in vitro' cell-free system comprising rabbit reticulocyte lysate and dog pancreatic microsomes. 2. Translations in various conditions, and analyses of the translation product in reducing and non-reducing conditions, indicate that oxidizing translation conditions and the cleavage of the N-terminal 'pre-' sequence are essential for generation of a disulphide-bonded translation product. 3. The disulphide-bonded translation product was resistant to proteinases, as expected for a translation product segregated within microsomal vesicles; in the presence of detergent to solubilize the membranes, the product was not readily susceptible to proteolysis, and was converted to a proteinase-resistant core fragment. 4. Segregated prochymosin, synthesized in reducing conditions, was completely degraded by proteinases under similar conditions. 5. Proteinase treatment of purified recombinant prochymosin gave rise to a proteinase-resistant fragment of similar Mr, suggesting that the disulphide-bonded product of translation in vitro was correctly folded. 6. The translocated, disulphide-bonded and folded prochymosin could be converted into pseudochymosin at pH 2.0, and addition of chymosin to the activation mixture resulted in increased pseudochymosin production.

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