title: Purification and properties of L-histidine decarboxylase from mouse stomach.
abstract: L-Histidine decarboxylase was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity from mouse stomach according to a procedure described previously [Ohmori E, Fukui T, Imanishi N, Yatsunami K and Ichikawa A, J Biochem (Tokyo) 107: 834-839, 1990]. The purified enzyme exhibited a specific activity of 750 nmol histamine formed per min per mg protein, which constituted a 37,500-fold purification compared to the crude extract, with a 1.6% yield. The molecular mass of the enzyme was estimated to be 54 kDa by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and 100 kDa by gel filtration. The isoelectric point of the enzyme was determined to be pH 5.4. The Km value for L-histidine was estimated to be 0.29 mM. The single mRNA encoding the amino acid sequence of the mouse stomach enzyme was examined and its size was found to be 2.7 kb. These molecular and catalytic property values of the L-histidine decarboxylase of mouse stomach are quite similar to those of the enzyme from mouse mastocytoma P-815 cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Watabe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukui
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ohmori
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002460:Cell Line; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D006640:Histidine Decarboxylase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007526:Isoelectric Point; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008970:Molecular Weight; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D013270:Stomach / Q000201:enzymology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D006640:Histidine Decarboxylase