Further characterization of an enkephalin-generating enzyme from adrenal medullary chromaffin granules.

Abstract:

:An adrenomedullary protease capable of generating Met5-enkephalin from endogenous precursor(s) has been purified 1,000-fold using affinity chromatography in combination with gel filtration. This trypsin-like enzyme has an apparent molecular weight of 20,000 daltons by gel filtration. The reactivity of the enzyme toward several fluorogenic peptides, Peptides E and F, and the heptapeptides, Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7 and Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Arg7, was examined. The two heptapeptides and the fluorogenic compounds were poor substrates for the adrenal enzyme; in contrast, Peptides E and F were cleaved. The low molecular weight products of Peptide F digestion were identified by HPLC as Arg1-Met6-enkephalin, Met5-enkephalin, and Met5-enkephalin-Lys6, while digestion of Peptide E resulted in the production of Leu5-enkephalin and Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Arg7. [3H]-beta m-Lipotropin was not hydrolyzed by the adrenal enzyme. These results indicate that this adreno-medullary protease is capable of cleaving adrenal opioid peptides at the paired basic sites and thus represents a possible candidate for a proenkephalin-converting enzyme.

journal_name

J Neurochem

authors

Lindberg I,Yang HY,Costa E

doi

10.1111/j.1471-4159.1984.tb02802.x

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-05-01 00:00:00

pages

1411-9

issue

5

eissn

0022-3042

issn

1471-4159

journal_volume

42

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