title: Protamine-agarose non-charged alkyl derivatives of agarose in the purification of rat-liver phosphoprotein phosphatases.
abstract: 1. Protamine-agarose and hydrophobic interaction chromatography were found to be effective in the purification of phosphoprotein  phosphatase(s) (phosphoprotein phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.16) of rat-liver. The phosphoprotein phosphatase of rat-liver cytosol were first resolved into three fractions, termed A, B and C, in order of elution from DEAE-cellulose. Whereas all fractions displayed activity towards [32P]phosphoprotamine, only fractions B and C displayed appreciable activity towards [32P]phosphopyruvate kinase. Since fraction B exhibited the most properties and the highest recovery of enzymatic activity towards [32P]phosphoprotamine and [32P]phosphopyruvate kinase, it was selected for further purification. The method developed involves sequential chromatography of fraction B on Sephadex G-200, protamineagarose, histone-agarose and then again on Sephadex G-200 as a final step. A 400-fold enrichment in the phosphoprotamine phosphatase activity of fraction B was obtained. Purified fraction B also displayed substantial phosphatase activity towards [32P]phosphopyruvate kinase and [32P]phosphohistones. An apparent molecular weight of about 250 000 was estimated for purified fraction B on a calibrated Sephadex G-200 column. The present data indicate that rat-liver cytosol contains multiple forms of phosphoprotein phosphatases and suggest a technique which might be applied for the further purification of at least fraction B. 2. In a separate approach, a combination of pentyl-agarose and protamineagarose chromatography was shown to be a conbenient method for the enrichment (up to 20-fold of phosphoprotein phosphatase activity from crude liver extracts.
mesh_terms: D000478:Alkylation; D000818:Animals; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity / Q000379:methods; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D011479:Protamines; D051381:Rats; D012685:Sepharose
chemical_list: D011479:Protamines; D012685:Sepharose; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases