Calcium-activated neutral proteinases (CANPs) and their endogenous specific inhibitor calpastatin are found in a wide variety of vertebrate and invertebrate tissues. The CANPs are cysteine proteinases that have an absolute requirement for Ca(2+) for activity. mu-Calpain and calpastatin were purified by successive chromatographic steps on Toyopearl-Super Q 650S and Pharmacia Mono Q HR 5/5 columns. The enzyme has a M(r) of 84KDa using sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), a M(min) of 79KDa from amino acid analysis and an pI of 5.2. Calpastatin has a M(r) of 323KDa using denaturing gradient PAGE and a pI of 4.7. The amino acid composition of mu-calpain revealed 689 residues and the pH and temperature optima were found to be 7.5 and 37 degrees C, respectively. mu-Calpain underwent a Ca(2+)-dependent autoproteolysis producing a fragment of 82KDa. The N-terminal sequence of mu-calpain showed 24 and 18% sequence identity with human and bovine mu-calpain.
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