Abstract

Human carbonic anhydrase C is the high-specific-activity form of the enzyme found in human red cells. A proposal for the primary structure of this enzyme is presented. Trypsin-catalyzed hydrolysis was restricted to the arginyl bonds of the protein by blocking the lysyl side chains by amidination. The arginine fragments were isolated and their amino acid sequences determined. The sequence contains 259 amino acid residues in a single polypeptide chain devoid of disulfide bonds. The structure obtained should be adequate to permit a detailed interpretation of the 2.0 Å X-ray crystallographic model of the enzyme previously determined. The primary structures of the human B and C enzymes have about 60% identities.

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