CD36, a common milk fat globule membrane glycoprotein, was isolated from skim milk by methods similar to those previously utilized for the isolation of sulfhydryl oxidase. Two separate methods that were employed, gave similar purity as observed by electrophoresis. The first was based on differential centrifugation and size-exclusion chromatography, whereas the second combined ultrafiltration and affinity chromatography.
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December 1992
Human fibronectin was immobilized on glass beads. The beads were used to evaluate binding of Lactobacillus reuteri to fibronectin. Organisms bound to the glass beads were detected using fluorescence microscopy after treatment with acridine orange.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe isolation of sulfhydryl oxidase from bovine milk in a suitably pure form for sequencing was carried out by transient covalent affinity chromatography of diafiltered whey using cysteinylsuccinamidopropyl-glass as matrix. The glutathione-eluted proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE. By radiolabeling the affinity chromatography-purified enzyme with [14C]iodoacetate before subjecting to SDS-PAGE, the sulfhydryl oxidase band was identified, because sulfhydryl oxidase is known to be inactivated by alkylation of one sulfhydryl group per mole.
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October 1987
Sulfhydryl oxidase isolated from bovine skim milk membrane vesicles catalyzes de novo formation of disulfide bonds with the substrates cysteine, cysteine-containing peptides, and reduced proteins using molecular oxygen as the electron acceptor. Initial rates for sulfhydryl oxidase-catalyzed oxidation of reduced ribonuclease exhibited typical Michaelis-Menten kinetics at low substrate concentrations. Substrate inhibition of the oxidative activity was observed at ribonuclease concentrations greater than 40 microM, similar to that observed with reduced glutathione or other small thiol substrates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the refolding and oxidation of reductively denatured ribonuclease A in solution, there is a marked lag in appearance of enzymatic activity as compared to the oxidation of sulfhydryl groups, whether such oxidation is spontaneous or is catalyzed by sulfhydryl oxidase. However, if ribonuclease is covalently attached to a derivatized glass surface, a lag period is not observed during the reformation of native structure from the completely reduced, denatured state. These results suggest that, in solution, intermolecular interactions alter the pathway of polypeptide chain folding and disulfide bond formation, leading to nonnative disulfides which do not rapidly interchange to form native pairings.
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