Phenothiazine-N-carbonyl chloride inactivated chymotrypsin and trypsin by means of a 1:1 stoicheiometric reaction. Its reaction with chymotrypsin was 29 times as fast as that with trypsin and was inhibited by indole. The reaction of phenothiazine-N-carbonyl chloride with chymotrypsin resembled an enzyme-substrate reaction in which the deacylation step is rate-limiting. Slow deacylation occurred...

Hydrogen exchange is an attractive method for observing small populations of partly unfolded states of proteins at equilibrium. It has been suggested that these represent folding intermediates so that hydrogen exchange can offer a short cut for studying protein-folding pathways. This cannot work in theory because it is not possible to tell whether they are intermediates or side reactions. Exper...

Pacific red snapper (Lutjanus peru) is an important commercial species in Mexico with great aquaculture potential; however, digestive physiology still unknown. Therefore, the objective of present work was to characterize proteases L. peru juvenile using biochemical and electrophoretic techniques. Results showed a higher acid protease activity than alkaline proteases, trypsin, chymotrypsin, leuc...

Lysosomes can trigger the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway by releasing proteases. Here we report that a 25-kDa protein purified from rat liver lysosomes possesses a long standing potent Bid cleavage activity at neutral pH, and the truncated Bid can in turn induce rapid mitochondrial release of cytochrome c. This protease was revealed as chymotrypsin B by biochemical and mass spectrometric analy...

The secretion of trypsin and chymotrypsin into the duodenum in response to secretin and CCK-PZ has been compared with the faecal excretion of the enzymes following similar stimulation in 47 individuals undergoing clinical investigation. The faecal output of chymotrypsin correlated well, but trypsin less satisfactorily, with the secretion of the respective enzymes into the duodenum. The faecal e...

A trypsin-resistant mutant of Sendai virus, TR-5, which was obtained by passaging the wild-type (wt) virus in the presence of chymotrypsin followed by plaque purification, also had an enhanced susceptibility to activation by chymotrypsin. A trypsin-sensitive revertant, TSrev-58, derived from TR-5 had a decreased susceptibility to chymotrypsin and was susceptible to trypsin to the same degree as...

It has been previously shown that the esterase and proteinase activities of trypsin and chymotrypsin (1, 2) were equally inhibited by diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) (3). With chymotrypsin, 50 per cent inhibition occurred when 0.55 mole of inhibitor per mole of enzyme1 was used at pH 7.7. On the basis of a linear relationship between the-per cent inhibition and the concentration of DFP, 1.1 m...

Vinyl sulfone (VS)–agarose beads were used to develop a new strategy coimmobilize enzymes with very different stabilities, enabling the reuse of most stable immobilized enzyme. Two model combi-biocatalysts prepared. First, trypsin and chymotrypsin multipoint covalently coimmobilized on VS–agarose, support was blocked ethylenediamine, then β-galactosidase from Aspergillus oryzae via anion exchan...

The pH dependence of the steady state kinetic parameters K,(app) and $,t of the a-, acetylated 6-, and ar-chymotrypsincatalyzed hydrolysis of the specific amide substrate N-acetylr.-tryptophanamide, has been investigated in the neutral and alkaline pH regions. A completely automatic technique for measuring the hydrolysis of amides was used. New results and important aspects of the chymotrypsin-...

Background: The purpose of the study was to analyze relationship between caspase-like (CL) and chymotrypsin-like (ChTL) activities proteasomes 5-year overall metastasis-free survival rates in patients with luminal breast cancer.