title: Isolation and characterization of octopus hepatopancreatic glutathione S-transferase. Comparison of digestive gland enzyme with lens S-crystallin.
abstract: Glutathione S-transferase from Octopus vulgaris hepatopancreas was purified to apparent homogeneity by single glutathione-Sepharose-4B affinity chromatography with overall yield 46% and purification 249-fold. The enzyme was a homodimer with subunit M(r) 24,000, which was smaller than that of the octopus lens S-crystallin (M(r) 27,000) with glutathione-S-transferase-like structure. Both proteins showed substrate specificities similar to alpha/pi-type isozyme of glutathione S-transferase. Under native conditions, both proteins exhibited multiple forms upon polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis or isoelectric focusing, albeit with distinct mobilities; however, only one kind of N-terminal amino acid sequence was determined for the multiple forms of each protein. The hepatopancreatic GST, with pI value 6.6-7.3, dissociated into two monomers in an acidic or alkaline environment. Two amino acid residues, with pKa values 5.69 +/- 0.14 and 9.03 +/- 0.11 were involved in the subunit interactions of the hepatopancreatic enzyme.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institutes of Life Sciences and Biochemistry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003459:Crystallins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004064:Digestive System / Q000201:enzymology; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D049831:Octopodiformes / Q000201:enzymology*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D003459:Crystallins; D005982:Glutathione Transferase