title: Biochemical and structural comparative study between bird and mammal pancreatic colipases.
abstract: Three colipases were purified from pancreas of two birds (ostrich and turkey) and one mammal (dromedary). After acidic and/or heat treatment and precipitation by sulfate ammonium and then ethanol, cofactors were purified by Sephadex G-50 gel filtration followed by ion-exchange chromatography first on Mono S and then on Mono Q. One molecular form was obtained from each species with a molecular mass of approximately 10 kDa. Cofactors were not glycosylated. The N-terminal sequences of the three purified cofactors showed high sequence homology. A 90 amino acid sequence of the ostrich cofactor was established based on peptide sequences from four different digests of the denaturated protein using trypsin, chymotrypsin, thermolysin, or staphylococcal protease. This sequence exhibited a high degree of homology with chicken and mammal cofactors. Bile salt-inhibited pancreatic lipases from five species were activated to variable extents by colipases from bird and mammal origins. The bird pancreatic lipase-colipase system appears to be functionally similar to homologous lipolytic systems from higher mammals. Our comparative study showed that mammal colipase presents a lower activation level toward bird lipases than the bird counterpart. Three-dimensional modeling of ostrich colipase suggested a structural explanation of this fact.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Abir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben Bacha
authors.forename: Fakher
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Frikha
authors.forename: Ikram
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Djemal
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fendri
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miled
authors.forename: Youssef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gargouri
authors.forename: Hafedh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mejdoub
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts / Q000494:pharmacology; D002162:Camelus; D003089:Colipases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D020310:Struthioniformes; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000378:metabolism; D014422:Turkeys
chemical_list: D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D003089:Colipases; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D014280:Triglycerides; C005830:tributyrin