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  • Title: Purification and properties of N-formylmethionine aminopeptidase from rat liver.
    Author: Suda H, Yamamoto K, Aoyagi T, Umezawa H.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1980 Nov 06; 616(1):60-7. PubMed ID: 7437450.
    Abstract:
    A specific enzyme for the liberation of N-terminal N-formylmethionine from N-formylmethionyl peptides was purified 4750-fold from rat liver by successive applications of (NH4)SO4 precipitation, DEAE-cellulose, N-formylbestatin-AH-Sepharose 4B and AH-Sepharose 4B chromatography followed by Sepharose CL-6B gel filtration. The molecular weight was determined by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B as 290 000 +/- 5000. This was suggested to be a tetramer consisting of a subunit which was shown by sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to have a 72 000 +/- 2000 molecular weight. The optimum pH of the enzyme was 7.8. Cd2+ and Hg2+ were highly toxic to the enzyme. Michaelis constants of N-formylmethionyl leucine and N-formylmethionine beta-naphthylamide were 0.03 and 0.2 mM, respectively.
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