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J. Biochem, 1970, Vol. 68, No. 1 1-7
© 1970 Japanese Biochemical Society

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Studies on Fin Whale Pancreatic Proteases

III. Properties of Purified Fin Whale Anionic Chymotrypsin*

Atsushi KOIDE and Yoshitaka MATSUOKA

The Department of Enzyme Chemistry, Eisai Research Laboratories, Eisai Co., Ltd., Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

Some physical and enzymatic properties were studied on the purified fin whale anionic chymotrypsin which was homogeneous by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and ultracentrifugal analysis. The molecular weight was approximately 17, 000 (S20, w = 1.62) by the Archibald procedure, and the enzyme was found to be composed of approximately 126 amino acid residues. The isoelectric point was 5.2 (µ=0.1). The optimum pH for caseinolytic and N-acetyl-L-tyrosine ethyl ester hydrolyzing activities were about pH 8.0 and pH 7.5, respectively. The fin whale anionic enzyme was inhibited by DFP, like bovine pancreatic proteases, but not inhibited by N-tosyl-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone. As far as the effects of bivalent cations, and natural trypsin inhibitors are concerned, no significant differences were found between fin whale and bovine anionic chymotrypsins. The substrate specificity was similar to that of bovine chymotrypsins B and {alpha} [EC 3.4.4.6 [EC] and 5].

* Part of this work was presented at the 7th International Congress of Biochemistry (1967) and the 19th Symposium on Enzyme Chemistry of Japan (1968).


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