title: Purification and properties of sulfhydryl oxidase from bovine pancreas.
abstract: Immunofluorescent studies showed that antibodies prepared against bovine milk sulfhydryl oxidase reacted with acinar cells of porcine and bovine pancreas. A close inspection of the specific location within bovine pancreatic cells revealed that the zymogen granules, themselves, bound the fluorescent antibody. Bovine pancreatic tissue was homogenized in 0.3 M sucrose, then separated into the zymogen granule fraction by differential centrifugation. The intact zymogen granules were immunofluorescent positive when incubated with antibodies to bovine milk sulfhydryl oxidase, and glutathione-oxidizing activity was detected under standard assay conditions. Pancreatic sulfhydryl oxidase was purified from the zymogen fraction by precipitation with 50% saturated ammonium sulfate, followed by Sepharose CL-6B column chromatography. Active fractions were pooled and subjected to covalent affinity chromatography on cysteinylsuccinamidopropyl-glass using 2 mM glutathione as eluant at 37 degrees C. The specific activity of bovine pancreatic sulfhydryl oxidase thus isolated was 10-20 units/mg protein using 0.8 mM glutathione as substrate. Ouchterlony double-diffusion studies showed that antibody directed against the purified bovine milk enzyme reacted identically with pancreatic sulfhydryl oxidase. The antibody also immunoprecipitated glutathione-oxidizing activity from crude pancreatic homogenates. Western blotting analysis indicated a 90,000 Mr antigen-reactive band in both bovine milk and pancreatic fractions while sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed a single silver-staining protein with an apparent Mr 300,000. Thus, we believe that sulfhydryl oxidase may exist in an aggregated molecular form. Bovine pancreatic sulfhydryl oxidase catalyzes the oxidation of low-molecular-weight thiols such as glutathione, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, and glycylglycyl-L-cysteine, as well as that of a high-molecular-weight protein substrate, reductively denatured pancreatic ribonuclease A.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D002417:Cattle; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004792:Enzyme Precursors / Q000032:analysis; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D008892:Milk / Q000201:enzymology; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology*; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D012259:Ribonuclease, Pancreatic / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds / Q000378:metabolism; D013552:Swine; D050862:Oxidoreductases Acting on Sulfur Group Donors
chemical_list: D004792:Enzyme Precursors; D005978:Glutathione; D010088:Oxidoreductases; D012259:Ribonuclease, Pancreatic; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds; D050862:Oxidoreductases Acting on Sulfur Group Donors