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  • Title: Proteins of the kidney microvillar membrane. Immunoelectrophoretic analysis of the membrane hydrolases: identification and resolution of the detergent- and proteinase-solubilized forms.
    Author: Booth AG, Hubbard LM, Kenny AJ.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1979 May 01; 179(2):397-405. PubMed ID: 486090.
    Abstract:
    Antibodies raised in rabbits to detergent-solubilized pig kidney microvillar proteins have been used to investigate the membrane hydrolases by crossed immunoelectrophoresis. Eight enzymes were detected by specific staining methods: aminopeptidase M, dipeptidylpeptidase IV, neutral endopeptidase, aminopeptidase A, carboxypeptidase P, gamma-glutamyltransferase, trehalase and phosphodiesterase I. The mobility of all these enzymes, with the exception of trehalase and neutral endopeptidase, was increased by treatment of the detergent-solubilized preparation with papain. The difference between the detergent and proteinase forms of these enzymes is attributed to the removal of a small, non-antigenic peptide to which detergent is bound in significant quantities. This interpretation was further supported by experiments in which the microvillus fraction was labelled with an intramembrane photolabelling reagent, 1-azido-4-[125I]iodobenzene. After photolysis, the radioactivity in the membrane could be solubilized by detergent treatment but not by papain treatment. Radioautography after crossed charge-shift immunoelectrophoresis showed a good correlation between charge-shift (signifying the presence of detergent bound to a hydrophobic domain) and the presence of the label.
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