title: 5'-Nucleotidase from bull seminal plasma. Biochemical and biophysical aspects.
abstract: In bull seminal plasma 5'-nucleotidase is present in heterogeneous forms. The heterogeneity is abolished by treatment of bull seminal plasma with the detergent sodium cholate. The purified enzyme, which is a glycoprotein, shows an apparent molecular mass of 160 kDa on gel filtration in the presence of 50 mmol sodium cholate and an apparent molecular mass of 72 kDa upon SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. The 5'-nucleotidase of bull seminal plasma is a metalloprotein containing 2 zinc ions per molecule of dimeric protein. The removal of the two zinc ions from the protein results in a completely inactive apoenzyme. The substitution of the endogenous zinc with Co(II) Cu(II) produces a holoenzyme which is slightly activated in the case of Co(II), whereas, in the case of Cu(II) only 65% of the initial activity is recovered. The enzyme has a covalently attached glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol moiety which can be removed by treatment with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. ESR studies have indicated a radius of 35 A for the protein and that Cu(II) binds to the metal-free enzyme to a site in which sulphur donors can be excluded.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche, Università degli Studi, Perugia/Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cannistrado
mesh_terms: D015720:5'-Nucleotidase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003300:Copper / Q000378:metabolism; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D012661:Semen / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D003300:Copper; D015720:5'-Nucleotidase