Evidence for biosynthesis of lactase-phlorizin hydrolase as a single-chain high-molecular weight precursor

H Skovbjerg, E M Danielsen, Ove Noren, H Sjöström

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Abstract

Precursor forms of lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, sucrase-isomaltase and aminopeptidase N were studied by pulse-labelling of organ-cultured human intestinal biopsies. After labelling the biopsies were fractionated by the Ca2+-precipitation method and the enzymes isolated by immunoprecipitation. The results indicate that the lactase-phlorizin hydrolase is synthesized as a Mr 245 000 polypeptide, which is intracellularly cleaved into its mature Mr 160 000 form. Sucrase-isomaltase is shown to be synthesized as a single chain precursor (Mr 245 000 and 265 000) while the precursor of aminopeptidase N is shown to be of apparently the same size as the mature enzyme (Mr 140 000 and 160 000).
Original languageEnglish
JournalBBA General Subjects
Volume798
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)247-51
Number of pages4
ISSN0304-4165
Publication statusPublished - 1984

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