title: Electrophoretic characterization of porcine pancreatic (pro)elastases A and B.
abstract: Two porcine pancreatic zymogens can be separated by free electrophoresis on a sucrose gradient. After activation by trypsin, both enzymes can hydrolyze completely the fibrous protein elastin. One of the two proteins, proelastase B, has, in addition, an esterolytic activity towards N-acetyl-L-tyrosine ethyl ester. The other, proelastase A, does not possess it. The activation products of the zymogens have been tagged with radioactive diisopropylfluro-phosphonate and separated by polacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Proelastase A gives only one active species, pancreatopeptidase E, but three distinct proteins can be obtained from proelastase B. Elastases A and B exhibit an important synergism when acting together upon a purified elastin lacking microfibrils. Trypsin has considerably less synergistic activity, and chymotrypsin has practically none.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002848:Chromatography, DEAE-Cellulose; D003956:Dialysis; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004792:Enzyme Precursors / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology*; D010196:Pancreatic Elastase / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D013552:Swine; D014357:Trypsin
chemical_list: D004792:Enzyme Precursors; D010196:Pancreatic Elastase; D014357:Trypsin