Abstract
A column of immobilized antibodies directed against pure human pancreatic carboxylic (cholesterol) ester hydrolase was used to purify in a single step the enzyme from human pancreatic juice as well as carboxylic-ester hydrolases from other species (rat, dog). This immunoaffinity method was also used for the purification of the related bile-salt-stimulated lipase from the human skim milk. The enzymes were homogeneous on SDS-PAGE. The yields obtained were always higher than those previously observed using either conventional or affinity columns. The human and dog carboxylic-ester hydrolases as well as the bile-salt-stimulated lipase, in contrast to the rat enzyme, are glycoproteins. From our results, it can be speculated that these enzymes, which differ in their molecular weight but not in their N-terminal sequences or amino-acid compositions, might have a similar proteic core with a molecular mass between 65 and 75 kDa. The difference in their respective molecular masses might result from a different level of glycosylation of pancreatic carboxylic-ester hydrolases (and milk bile-salt-stimulated lipase).
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