Abstract
One of ostrich ( Struthio camelus) trypsinogen genes was cloned from pancreatic cDNA. Its amino acid sequence compared to known trypsin sequences from other species shows high identity and suggests that it is a member of the phylogenetically anionic trypsinogen I subfamily. After cytoplasmic over expression in Escherichia coli and renaturation, the activation properties of ostrich trypsinogen were studied and compared to those of human trypsinogen 1 (also called as human cationic trypsinogen). Ostrich trypsinogen undergoes bovine enterokinase activation and autoactivation much faster than human trypsinogen 1 and exhibits on a synthetic substrate a somewhat higher enzymatic activity than the latter one. The most interesting property of ostrich trypsin is its relatively fast autolysis that can be explained via a mechanism different from the common mechanism for rat and human 1 trypsins. The latter proteases have a site, Arg117–Val118, where the autolysis starts and then goes on in a zipper-like fashion. This is absent from ostrich trypsin. Instead it has a couple of cleavage sites within regions 67–98, including two unusual ones, Arg76–Glu77 and Arg83–Ser84. These appear to be hydrolysed fast in a non-consecutive manner. Such an autolysis mechanism could not be inhibited by a single-site mutation which in humans is proposed to lead to pancreatitis.
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