Fractionation and purification of antioxidant peptides from Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) protein hydrolysates prepared using papain and alcalase 2.4L

Protein hydrolysates have the potential to be natural and safer sources of bioactive peptides. In this study, two proteases were used to hydrolyze Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) protein, and the hydrolysates were then purified to yield antioxidant peptides. The degree of hydrolysis of 23.56 % and 18.14 % was obtained using papain and alcalase 2.4L, respectivly, and hydrolysates had 96.80 % and 87.24 % total amino acid content, respectivly. The papain hydrolysate (PH) and alcalase 2.4L hydrolysate (AH) showed good antioxidant activity against DPPH^? (IC₅₀ of 3.64 and 3.15 mg/mL) and ABTS^?+ (IC₅₀ of 1.92 and 1.58 mg/mL), respectively. The low-molecular-weight (<1000 Da) fraction of both hydrolysates demonstrated the highest antiradical activity (IC₅₀ of 2.59 and 2.31 mg/mL, DPPH) and (IC₅₀ of 1.54 and 1.36 mg/mL, ABTS), respectively. Nine peptides were separated from both hydrolysates using reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). The IC₅₀ for ABTS^?+ scavenging activity of peptide P5 with valine, glycine and asparagine (MW of 282.13 Da) from PH, and peptide P3 with histidine, glycine and alanine (MW of 302.74 Da) from AH was 0.89 and 0.72 mg/mL, respectively. The fractions and purified peptides obtained from Chinese sturgeon hydrolysates could be utilized as natural antioxidant substitutes in pharmaceuticals and food products.     

Mass spectrometry of peptides and proteins using digestion by a grape cysteine protease at pH 3

Cysteine protease from grapevine (Vitis vinifera) belongs to those resistant proteins, which survive the process of vinification and can therefore be detected as wine components. Its amino acid sequence shows a homology to other members of the papain family, but the enzyme has only partially been explored so far. In order to get more biochemical information with the help of mass spectrometry (MS), wine proteins were collected by ultrafiltration and separated by gel permeation chromatography. The purified enzyme surprisingly displayed a high molecular mass value of around 200 kDa, indicating a possible oligomeric status and aggregation, as it entered only negligibly the separating 10% gel during polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The isoelectric point (pI) value of 3.6 was determined by chromatofocusing. Matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)‐MS was employed to evaluate the cleavage specificity and usefulness of the isolated cysteine protease in protein and peptide research. A potential applicability could be anticipated from the efficient digestion performance in volatile ammonium formate buffers at pH 3. Common peptides were digested and the resulting products analyzed by MS/MS sequencing. Then, mixtures of protein standards and extracted barley nuclear proteins were processed in the same way. Grape cysteine protease is nonspecific but shows a certain preference for Arg, Lys, and also Leu residues. Compared with papain, it seems not to require fully the presence of a large hydrophobic residue adjacent to that at the cleavage site. The enzyme is suitable for protein research as it produces peptides of a reasonable length in acidic pH.     

固定化木瓜蛋白酶活性的X-射线微区分析

利用X-射线微区分析,对共价法得到的固定化木瓜蛋白酶的活性进行了分析;Na-苯甲酰-L-精氨酰胺盐酸盐作为底物,FeCl_3作为捕捉剂,底物经木瓜蛋白酶催化分解产生L-精氨酸及氨,后者和捕捉剂反应产生沉淀,可以确定固定化木瓜蛋白酶的催化活性部位。结果表明:以大孔结构吸附树脂为固定化酶载体,酶活较高,木瓜蛋白酶分布较均匀。并得到了固定化木瓜蛋白酶的活性定位的最佳条件。并对不同结构载体固定化木瓜蛋白酶的活性进行了研究。     

Papain‐Catalyzed Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Telechelic Polypeptides Using Bis(Leucine Ethyl Ester) Initiator

In order to construct unique polypeptide architectures, a novel telechelic‐type initiator with two leucine ethyl ester units is designed for chemoenzymatic polymerization. Glycine or alanine ethyl ester is chemoenzymatically polymerized using papain in the presence of the initiator, and the propagation occurs at each leucine ethyl ester unit to produce the telechelic polypeptide. The formation of the telechelic polypeptides is confirmed by ¹H NMR and MALDI‐TOF mass spectroscopies. It is revealed by AFM observation that long nanofibrils are formed from the telechelic polyalanine, whereas a conventional linear polyalanine with a similar degree of polymerization shows granule‐like structures. The telechelic polyglycine and polyalanine show the crystalline structures of Polyglycine II and antiparallel β‐sheet, respectively. It is demonstrated that this method to synthesize telechelic‐type polypeptides potentially opens up a pathway to construct novel hierarchical structures by self‐assembly.

     

光谱和分子模拟法研究乙硫异烟胺与木瓜蛋白酶的分子作用机制

利用荧光光谱、紫外光谱和分子模拟方法研究了乙硫异烟胺(TH1314)与木瓜蛋白酶之间的相互作用, 求得了不同温度下的结合常数K. 研究结果表明, 静态猝灭是导致乙硫异烟胺对木瓜蛋白酶荧光猝灭的主要原因. 通过计算热力学参数, 可知乙硫异烟胺与木瓜蛋白酶相互作用的吉布斯自由能表现为较大的负值, 并结合作用过程的焓变和熵变推断出乙硫异烟胺与木瓜蛋白酶之间的作用力是以疏水和氢键作用为主. 同时, 利用紫外光谱和同步荧光光谱定性讨论了乙硫异烟胺对木瓜蛋白酶构象的影响. 分子模拟研究表明, 乙硫异烟胺与木瓜蛋白酶的相互作用不仅存在疏水作用, 而且有氢键作用, 这与光谱及热力学研究结果是一致的.     

Papain-induced Oligomerization of α-Amino Acid Esters

Oligomers of leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, and tyrosine were prepared enzymatically (using papain) from the respective methyl esters, with yields ranging from 51–96%. The effect of pH, buffer and salt concentration, and addition of alcohol on the oligomerization of leucine methyl ester was examined. The limits and potentialities of the enzymatic reaction as a method for obtaining monodisperse oligomers are discussed.     

Preparation of Dendrimers from Macromolecular Cores and Papain Immobilization

Recently,stIJdyonpreparationandpotentialapplicationofdendrimersisquiteactivel-3.StrIJcturally,therearealotoffunctionalgroupsonthesurfaceofadendrimer,whicharepossiblyusedtoconnectwithbiocatalystsuchasenZymeandcell.However,inmostcasesthereporteddendrimerswereviscousandcouldhardlybeusedascarrierforenZymeimmobilization.Inordertoobtainsoliddendrimers,amino-poly(ethyleneglycol)[PEG(NH,),]andamino-propylsilicagel[SG(NH,).]wereselectedastWomacroinitiatorcores(MC)toprepareMC-dendrimers(PEG-den…     

Metallocarbonyl complexes of bromo‐ and dibromomaleimide: synthesis and biochemical application

Bromomaleimides react with cysteine residues to form thiomaleimides that can be further cleaved with TCEP (tris(2‐carboxyethyl)phosphine) to regenerate the cysteine derivatives. Herein we report the preparation of new organometallic Fe complexes containing monobromo and dibromo maleimide ligands. Both of these complexes were characterised by X‐ray diffraction. Organometallic bromomaleimide derivatives were reacted with the thiol‐containing biomolecules: cysteine ethyl ester hydrochloride, glutathione and papain. These cysteine‐containing molecules underwent a substitution reaction with metallocarbonyl bromo‐ or dibromo maleimide complexes, followed by an addition reaction to the thio‐maleimide double bond if thiol was added in excess. The metallocarbonyl mono‐bromomaleimide complex was shown to inhibit the peptidase activity of the enzyme papain. The resulting papain–maleimide product could be cleaved by addition of TCEP to regenerate the catalytically active enzyme. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Unfolding mechanism and stability of immobilized papain

The thermal stability of papain in free solution or immobilized on CPC-silica has been investigated by DSC. At neutralpH, in both conditions, the protein undergoes a thermal transition which corresponds to the sum of two transitions associated with the unfolding of the two domains of the protein. At lowpH, in the case of immobilized papain, only one transition is observed.     

酶解法制备方格星虫多肽及其抗氧化作用研究

采用木瓜蛋白酶酶解制备方格星虫多肽,通过单因素实验研究了加酶量、酶解温度、酶解时间、酶解pH值和料液比等因素对羟自由基清除率的影响。通过正交试验确定了木瓜蛋白酶对方格星虫最佳的酶解工艺条件为:加酶量300 U/g,酶解温度50℃,酶解时间60 min,酶解液pH值7.0,料水比1∶3。在此条件下酶解方格星虫获得多肽的羟自由基清除率为95.42%,表明方格星虫酶解物具有较明显的抗氧化能力。由高效体积排阻色谱(HPSEC)法测得方格星虫多肽的分子量为5868。