title: Guinea pig plasma trypsin inhibitors. Purification and characterization of two functionally distinct proteinase inhibitors.
abstract: Two trypsin inhibitors (TI-1, TI-2) were isolated from guinea pig plasma and purified to homogeneity. In amino-acid composition as well as molecular masses, TI-1 (Mr 58,000) and TI-2 (Mr 57,000) are similar to each other and to human and mouse alpha 1-proteinase inhibitors, and mouse con-trapsin. The two inhibitors form equimolar complexes with proteinases. The effectiveness of the inhibitors was characterized by association rate constants under second-order rate conditions. The inhibitory action of TI-1 was rapid for bovine trypsin, porcine pancreatic elastase and guinea pig plasma kallikrein, but slow for bovine thrombin and guinea pig plasmin and not detectable for bovine chymotrypsin and porcine pancreatic kallikrein. The inhibitory action of TI-2 was rapid for trypsin and chymotrypsin, but slow for guinea pig plasma kallikrein and not detectable for other proteinases. These results show that TI-1 and TI-2 are physicochemically similar but functionally distinct from each other and from human alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor that inhibits trypsin, chymotrypsin and elastase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Allergy, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Imamura
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authors.lastname: Kambara
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D006168:Guinea Pigs / Q000097:blood*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014361:Trypsin Inhibitors / Q000097:blood* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D014361:Trypsin Inhibitors