title: Isolation and purification of mature bovine adrenocortical ferredoxin with an elongated carboxyl end.
abstract: Mature bovine adrenocortical ferredoxin (adreno-ferredoxin) was extracted from fresh adrenal glands at pH 9.0. Extraction and purification at this alkaline pH protected the mature adreno-ferredoxin molecule from proteolytic degradation. The mature adreno-ferredoxin was extensively purified by a rapid procedure including two kinds of column chromatography, hydrophobic and ion exchange. The purified adreno-ferredoxin was homogeneous on the basis of two HPLC analyses, hydrophobic and ion exchange, and had the highest purity so far reported. Then it was digested by trypsin and the carboxyl-terminal peptide was isolated from the tryptic digest by a novel column chromatographic method using a cation-exchange HPLC column, TSK-gel SP-5PW. The carboxyl-terminal amino acid was isoleucine, so the adreno-ferredoxin had 127 amino acid residues, the longest polypeptide so far determined chemically for bovine adreno-ferredoxin. Only Glu-128 was lacking within the carboxyl-terminal elongated peptide that was found by nucleotide sequencing of the adreno-ferredoxin gene. There was no evidence obtained on whether the deletion of Glu-128 was due to so-called carboxyl-terminal processing or to proteolytic degradation during storage and purification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Kagawa Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakihama
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hiwatashi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miyatake
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
mesh_terms: D000302:Adrenal Cortex / Q000032:analysis*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D005591:Chemical Fractionation; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D005288:Ferredoxins / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010441:Peptide Chain Elongation, Translational; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D005288:Ferredoxins; D010446:Peptide Fragments