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. 1987 Aug;169(8):3409–3413. doi: 10.1128/jb.169.8.3409-3413.1987

Purification and characterization of an aminopeptidase from Mycoplasma salivarium.

K Shibata, T Watanabe
PMCID: PMC212410  PMID: 3611018

Abstract

The aminopeptidase which had been shown to be present in Mycoplasma salivarium was found to be associated with the cell membranes of the organism. The enzyme was solubilized in water by papain digestion of the membranes pretreated with Triton X-100 and purified approximately 130-fold by ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, affinity chromatography on L-leucylglycine-AH-Sepharose 4B, and gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B. The purified enzyme had a molecular mass of 397 kilodaltons, estimated by gel filtration through Sepharose CL-6B, and gave two bands of activity in analytical disc polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: a dense, diffuse band and a less dense, narrow one, accounting for 90 and 5% of stained proteins in the gel, respectively. The purified protein revealed two bands with molecular masses of 50 and 46 kilodaltons by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme catalyzed selectively the cleavage of the N-terminal arginine and leucine residues of peptides; had a pH optimum at 8.5; and was inhibited remarkably by bestatin, o-phenanthroline, EDTA, and L-cysteine, but was activated nine- and twofold by MnCl2 and MgCl2, respectively. The enzyme pretreated with MnCl2 had much higher maximum velocity (Vmax) for L-leucine-p-nitroanilide than the one not treated. That is, the Michaelis constant (Km) and Vmax values of the pretreated enzyme were 10.5 mM and 12.1 microM/min, respectively, whereas those of the untreated enzyme were 5.8 mM and 1.6 microM/min, respectively.

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