Erschienen in:
European Journal of Biochemistry, 130 (1983) 1, Seite 13-18
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1983.tb07110.x
ISSN:
1432-1033;
0014-2956
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Four protein protease inhibitors (I, II, III, IV) having low molecular weights (10600–6500) and basic isoelectric points were isolated by affinity chromatography from bovine spleen. Inhibitor IV was identified as the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (Kunitz inhibitor); the presence and distribution of components I, II and III vary in the different bovine organs. Spleen inhibitors I, II, III and IV were purified by ion‐exchange chromatography: they form 1:1 complexes with trypsin and inhibit enzymatic activity of trypsin, chymotrypsin and kallikrein. Inhibitors I, II and III contain carbohydrate moieties (7–4%) covalently bound to the polypeptide chain. Specific basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor antiserum has shown the complete identity between inhibitor IV and the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, while partial cross‐reactivity between the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor and inhibitors I, II and III can be seen from a double immunodiffusion test.