Figure 10.
Structural maturation of insulin upon Kex2p-mediated endoproteolysis. (A) Sucrose velocity gradient centrifugation. (B) Disulfide accessibility of ICFP and mature insulin under denaturing and nondenaturing conditions. Note that in these experiments all samples were exposed to PNGase F (A) or endoglycosidase H (B) at the end of the analysis. In the experiment shown in B, the enzyme digestion was performed in the complete absence of a reducing agent. The positions of reduced ICFP and insulin standards (ICFP-R and INS-R) and oxidized standards (ICFP-O and INS-O) are shown to the left of the panel.