Overactivity of the brain renin-angiotensin system has been implicated in the development and maintenance of hypertension. We reported previously that angiotensin II is converted to angiotensin III by aminopeptidase A in the mouse brain. We then used specific and selective aminopeptidase A inhibitors to show that angiotensin III is one of the main effector peptides of the brain renin-angiotensi...

Peptides play important roles in cell regulation and signaling in many tissues and are regulated by peptidases, most of which are highly expressed in the kidney. Several peptide convertases have a function in different tumor stages, and some have been clearly characterized as diagnostic and prognostic markers for solid tumors, including renal cancer; however, little is known about their in vivo...

OF4949-I and II inhibited aminopeptidase B from Ehrlich ascites carcinoma in a competitive way and the Ki value for both against L-arginine-beta-naphthylamide was 8 X 10(-9) M. Inhibition by I and II of various exopeptidases and endopeptidases was examined. OF4949-I and II both strongly inhibited leucine aminopeptidase and enkephalin-degrading aminopeptidase; I also inhibited enkephalinase B. T...

Abstract AIMS High-grade gliomas (HGG) are the deadliest central nervous system tumour in children. Despite this, treatment options remain elusive, leaving children with a dismal prognosis. Histone H3.3 mutations, K27M and G34V/R have been identified as two most common recurrent somatic mutations paediatric HGG (pHGG). These present 50% of pHGG compared to only 1% adults. Our previous research ...

An immunogenic aminopeptidase was purified from Brucella melitensis strain VTRM1. The purification procedure consisted of ammonium sulfate fractionation and three chromatographic steps. This procedure resulted in a yield of 29% and a 144-fold increase in specific activity. The aminopeptidase appeared to be a monomeric enzyme with a molecular mass of 96 kDa and an isoelectric point of 4.8. Its a...

The short-term effects of high-protein/low-carbohydrate diet on aminopeptidase N activity were studied in the brush-border membranes of proximal jejunum and proximal ileum of adult rats. The animals were starved overnight and re-fed for 15 h either with a standard diet (20% protein, 55% carbohydrate, in terms of energy content) or with a high-protein/low-carbohydrate diet of equal energy conten...

Yeast aminopeptidase I, when purified from autolysates of brewer's yeast, is obtained in two molecular froms a) the enzymatically active dodecameric complex (Mr = 640,000, s20,w = 22 S) and b) inactive hexamers (Mr = 320,000, s20,w = 12 S). Although the amino acid composition of the 12 S protein is very similar to that of the active enzyme,the hexamers behave differently in ionic exchange chrom...

proteases (Mann, 1964). Some of them have been partially purified and charac¬ terized by Lundquist (1953), who described an aminopeptidase, which readily hydrolyses both diand tripeptides to leucylpeptides, without any preference. During recent years, however, several new chromogenic substrates have been introduced to the study of proteolytic activity (Nachlas, Goldstein & Seligman, 1962), and ...

Leucine aminopeptidase and aminopeptidase M have been covalently bound to an arylamine derivative of porous glass. The bound forms of both enzymes retain 100% of their activities at saturating levels of substrate (leucine p-nitroanilide). For the hydrolysis at pH 7.3 and 25” kcat values for bound and free leucine aminopeptidase are 46 & 5 s-l and 46 + 2 s-l, respectively; for aminopeptidase M (...