Adrenal cortex mitochondrial enzyme with ATP-dependent protease and protein-dependent ATPase activities. Purification and properties - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1985 Nov 25;260(27):14498-504.

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Adrenal cortex mitochondrial enzyme with ATP-dependent protease and protein-dependent ATPase activities. Purification and properties

S Watabe et al. J Biol Chem. 1985.

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Abstract

We have purified an ATP-dependent protease with protein-dependent ATPase activity from bovine adrenal cortex mitochondria to near homogeneity. The subunit molecular weight is 108,000 and the enzyme appears to be a hexamer with approximately identical subunits. Based on the experiments using various nucleoside triphosphates and their related compounds, it is concluded that hydrolysis of the high-energy bond in nucleoside triphosphates is not an absolute requirement for proteolysis. Nucleotide specificity of this enzyme varies, depending on the protein or peptide substrates used. When casein was the substrate, ATP and dATP were quite effective, but other nucleotides were not. When insulin and angiotensinogen were used as substrate, ATP, other nucleoside triphosphates, ADP, inorganic triphosphate, pyrophosphate, and phosphate were effective. One of the cleaving linkages hydrolyzed by this enzyme was revealed to be the Leu-Leu bond of angiotensinogen. However, the specificity appears to be broad in view of the hydrolysis pattern of glucagon.

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