C-TERMINAL .ALPHA.-AMIDATING ENZYME AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF

摘要

A C-terminal .alpha.-amidating enzyme of porcine origin having the following properties: (1) Action and substrate specificity: acting on a peptide or protein represented by the formula, X-R-Gly wherein Gly represents a C-terminal glycine residue, R represents an amino acid residue to be .alpha.-amidated and X represents a remaining portion of the peptide or protein to convert it to a peptide or protein represent by the formula X-R-NH2 wherein R-NH2 represents a C-terminal .alpha.-amidated amino acid residue and X represents a residual portion of the peptide or protein; (2) optimum pH: 6.5 to 8.5; (3) molecular weight: about 92,000 as determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; and (4) containing the following peptide fragment: ...Glu-Ala-Pro-Leu-Leu-Ile-Leu-Gly....; and a process for the production of the C-terminal .alpha.-amidating enzyme comprising the step of extracting and purifying the enzyme from porcine atrium cordis exhibiting the enzyme activity.