Abstract
A novel cysteine protease has been purified to electrophoretic homogeneity from apocyanacean member Vallaris solanacea. Molecular weight of the solanain was determined as 28.5 kDa using sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Purified protease was named solanain and it was further characterized. An internal tryptic fragment was identified by MALDI TOF, and this peptide showed a homology (66% sequence identity) with the target sequence found as cysteine endopeptidase from Ricinus communis. The purpose of the present work is to examine the specificity towards synthetic peptide and ester substrates and also to compare with other cysteine proteases. In the present work protease solanain from V. solanacea was immobilized using various matrices such as calcium alginate, polyacrylamide, κ-carrageenan, chitosan and amberlite MB-150 employing entrapment and adsorption techniques. The purified solanain from the latex of V. solanacea exhibited broad specificity. Like other cysteine proteases it showed peptidase and amidase activity. However considerable difference was noticed in the rate of hydrolysis and also exhibited difference in specificity towards simple peptide substrates. Immobilization of solanain on amberlite MB-150 beads enhanced the enzyme stability against changes of pH and temperature. The immobilized enzyme retained 95, 89, 84 and 80% activity at the end of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th cycle respectively which indicates that immobilized enzyme can be reused for 5 cycles.
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Abbreviations
- β-ME:
-
β-Mercapto ethanol
- TCA:
-
Tri chloro acetate
- EDTA:
-
Ethylene diamino tetra acetic acid
- PCMB:
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p-Chloromercuribenzoate
- SDS:
-
Sodium dodecyl sulphate
- DEAE:
-
Diethyl amino ethyl
- PMSF:
-
Phenyl methyl sulfonyl fluoride
- DEAE:
-
Diethyl aminoethyl
- TLC:
-
Thin layer chromatography
- EDTA:
-
Ethylene diamino tetra acetic acid
- CBZ:
-
Carbo benzyloxy
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Somavarapu, S., Vemula, S. & Bhaskar Reddy, I. Substarte Specificty and Immobilization Studies of Purified Solanain from the Latex of Vallaris solanacea. Int J Pept Res Ther 25, 169–180 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10989-017-9659-4
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