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M Matsuishi

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Mode of action of rabbit skeletal muscle cathepsin B towards myofibrillar proteins and the myofibrillar structure.

1. The mode of degradation of myofibrillar proteins and the structural changes in myofibrils due to the action of cathepsin B highly purified from rabbit skeletal muscle were studied. 2. Cathepsin B degraded myosin heavy chain, actin and troponin T, but not alpha-actinin, tropomyosin, troponin I or troponin C among myofibrillar proteins. 3. Cathepsin B optimally degraded myosin heavy chain, actin and troponin T at around pH 5. Degradation of myosin heavy chain produced 6 fragments, 180,000, 150,000, 87,000, 81,000, 75,000 and 69,000 Da, respectively. Actin was hydrolyzed into fragments of 41,000, 38,000 and 30,000 Da. Troponin T was degraded into fragments of 21,000, 12,000 and 10,000 Da. 4. Cathepsin B caused the fragmentation of myofibrils and disturbance of the lateral arrangement of myofibrils. 5. Cathepsin B partly disintegrated the Z-line and the M-line, and induced disordering of the arrangement of filaments in the I-band.

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High-performance liquid chromatographic separation and spectral identification of the photoreaction products of methyl 5,8-epoxyretinoate.

Photoreaction of methyl 5,8-epoxyretinoate was investigated. Irradiation of methyl 5,8-epoxyretinoate in acetonitrile with a light from a high-pressure mercury lamp or a daylight fluorescent lamp afforded three new products, which were purified by high-performance liquid chromatography. They were characterized on the basis of spectroscopic data as 11-(Z), 13-(Z), and 11,13-di(Z) isomers, respectively.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid

Purification and some properties of cathepsin B from rabbit skeletal muscle.

Cathepsin B was purified from rabbit skeletal muscle by ammonium sulfate fractionation and successive chromatographies on Sephadex G-75, phosphocellulose, peptide-conjugated Sepharose, DEAE-Toyopearl and Sephadex G-100. The purified enzyme gave a single protein band on SDS/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme did not abolish the Ca sensitivity of the ATPase activity of myofibrils. The molecular mass of the enzyme was found to be 27 kDa on gel filtration and SDS/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The optimum pH for the hydrolysis of N alpha-benzoyl-DL-arginine-beta-naphthylamide was 6.5. The enzyme was stable in the range of pH 4.5-5.5. Tetrathionate reacted with thiol groups of the enzyme reversibly so that it stabilized the enzyme. The enzyme was strongly inhibited by iodoacetate, HgCl2, antipain, leupeptin, N alpha-p-tosyl-L-lysine chloromethane and L-tosylphenylalanylchloromethane, but not by pepstatin or trypsin inhibitor.

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Cysteine proteinase inhibitors from rabbit skeletal muscle.

1. Two cysteine proteinase inhibitors, I-T (Mr = 29,000) and I-S (Mr = 10,700), were isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle by means of succesive extraction with a neutral buffer solution, precipitation at pH 3.7, acetone fractionation and gel permeation on Sephadex G-75. 2. I-T is a formed trimer of a monomeric inhibitor, I-M (Mr = 10,500), through disulfide bonds. 3. I-S is almost completely stable between pH 3 and 8, while I-M is unstable in the same pH range. 4. I-M acts most effectively towards cathepsins H and L, showing moderate activity towards cathepsin B and only weak activity towards papain. I-S acts most effectively towards cathepsin L, followed by, in decreasing order, cathepsin H, cathepsin B and papain.

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[Dumping syndrome].

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Dumping Syndrome