title: Resolution of protein disulphide-isomerase and glutathione-insulin transhydrogenase activities by covalent chromatography.
abstract: 1. Protein disulphide-isomerase (EC 5.3.4.1) and glutathione-insulin transhydrogenase (EC 1.8.4.2) were resolved by covalent chromatography. Both activities, in a partially purified preparation from bovine liver, bind covalently as mixed disulphides to activated thiopropyl-Sepharose 6B, in a new stepwise elution procedure protein disulphide-isomerase is displaced in mildly reducing conditions whereas glutathione-insulin transhydrogenase is only displaced by more extreme reducing conditions. 2. This together with evidence for partial resolution of the two activities by ion-exchange chromatography, conclusively establishes that the two activities are not alternative activities of a single bovine liver enzyme. 3. Protein disulphide-isomerase, partially purified by a published procedure, has now been further purified by covalent chromatography and ion-exchange chromatography. The final material is 560-fold purified relative to a bovine liver homogenate; it has barely detectable glutathione-insulin transhydrogenase activity. 4. The purified protein disulphide-isomerase shows a single major band on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis corresponding to a mol.wt. of 57000. 5. The purified protein disulphide-isomerase has Km values for 'scrambled' ribonuclease and dithiothreitol of 23 microgram/ml and 5.4 microM respectively and has a sharp pH optimum at 7.5. The enzyme has a broad thiol-specificity, and several monothiols, at 1mM, can replace dithiothreitol. 6. The purified protein disulphide-isomerase is completely inactivated after incubation with a 2-3 fold molar excess of iodoacetate. The enzyme is also significantly inhibited by low concentrations of Cd2+ ions. These findings strongly suggest the existence of a vicinal dithiol group essential for enzyme activity. 7. When a range of thiols were used as co-substrates for protein disulphide-isomerase activity, the activities were found to co-purify quantitatively, implying the presence of a single protein disulphide-isomerase of broad thiol-specificity. Glutathione-disulphide transhydrogenase activities, assayed with a range of disulphide compounds, did not co-purify quantitatively.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D004220:Disulfides / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D007535:Isomerases / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011490:Protein Disulfide Reductase (Glutathione) / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D019704:Protein Disulfide-Isomerases; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004220:Disulfides; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds; D010088:Oxidoreductases; D011490:Protein Disulfide Reductase (Glutathione); D007535:Isomerases; D019704:Protein Disulfide-Isomerases