title: Sorghum proteinase inhibitors: purification and some biochemical properties.
abstract: An investigation has been carried out on the proteinase inhibitors of grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench). One of the inhibitors has been isolated in a pure form and characterized. The proteinase inhibitor was extracted from the acetone-defatted sorghum meal and purified by selective thermal denaturation, ammonium sulfate fractionation, Sephadex gel filtration and DEAE-cellulose chromatography (DEAE-preparation II). This preparation was demonstrated to be a mixture of three inhibitor components by polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis. Further resolution of this mixture into Inhibitors I to III was achieved by QAE-Sephadex chromatography. Sorghum Inhibitor III was homogeneous by the criteria of disc gel electrophoresis and has been more fully characterized. A molecular weight of 25,000 was obtained for Inhibitor III by gel filtration and was in agreement with the value calculated from the amino acid composition of the inhibitor. The N-terminal amino acid residue of Inhibitor III, a single chain protein, was isoleucine. Sorghum proteinase inhibitors inhibit specifically the serine proteinases and are inactive towards the other classes of proteinases. Inhibitor III is primarily a chymotrypsin inhibitor, whereas Inhibitors I and II inhibit both trypsin and chymotrypsin.
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D005591:Chemical Fractionation; D002848:Chromatography, DEAE-Cellulose; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002523:Edible Grain / Q000032:analysis*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000032:analysis / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D011480:Protease Inhibitors