title: Cloning and sequencing of rat liver carboxylesterase ES-3 (egasyn).
abstract: The cDNA of the rat carboxylesterase ES-3 encodes a polypeptide with 561 amino acid residues including a cleavable signal peptide at the N-terminus. The processed polypeptide shows over 90% sequence identity to mouse egasyn (ES-22); its calculated pI (5.5) matches the value determined for purified liver ES-3. The product expressed in COS cells migrates in native gels in the region of ES-3 and is similarly active on acetanilide. It is retained in the cells, as predicted from its C-terminus HTEL, and bears a single endo-H sensitive oligosaccharide chain. The nonglycosylated form expressed in the presence of tunicamycin is also intracellular, but substantially less active.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Physiologique, Université de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Robbi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Beaufay
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051381:Rats; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases; C009751:egasyn