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:A Ca(2+)-activated thiol protease was purified from Drosophila melanogaster. The procedure involves Phenyl-Sepharose, Reactive Red-Agarose and Q-Sepharose fast flow (or MonoQ) chromatographic steps. The enzyme eluting from Q-Sepharose fast flow seems to be homogeneous as judged by silver staining on SDS-PAGE: it consists of a single polypeptide chain of M(r),app = 94K and pI = 5.46. The proteolytic activity of the purified enzyme is absolutely Ca(2+)-dependent, characterized by 0.6 mM free Ca2+ at half-maximal activity. Ca2+ ions cannot be replaced effectively by the divalent cations Mg2+, Mn2+, Zn2+, Ba2+, and Cd2+. The enzyme shows the inhibitor pattern of thiol proteases. Human recombinant calpastatin (domain I) completely inhibits the enzyme at a nearly 1:1 molar ratio. Several of these properties resemble those of vertebrate calpain II. However, various attempts to detect a small subunit of M(r) approximately 30K, common with vertebrate calpains, remained unsuccessful. We suggest that the Drosophila enzyme is a novel calpain II-like protease.
journal_name
Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Pintér M,Stierandova A,Friedrich Pdoi
10.1021/bi00150a012subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-09-08 00:00:00pages
8201-6issue
35eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
31pub_type
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