Wellner D, Panneerselvam C, Horecker B L
Department of Biochemistry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Mar;87(5):1947-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.87.5.1947.
Many proteins cannot be directly sequenced by Edman degradation because they have a blocked N-terminal residue. A method is presented for deblocking such proteins when the N-terminal residue is N-acetylserine (which occurs frequently in eukaryotic proteins) or N-acetylthreonine. The method has been applied successfully to the determination of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of human, bovine, and rat parathymosins. Prothymosin alpha and other blocked proteins and peptides were also readily deblocked and sequenced by this procedure. It is proposed that the mechanism of the deblocking reaction involves an acid-catalyzed N----O shift of the acetyl group followed by a beta-elimination.
许多蛋白质无法通过埃德曼降解法直接测序,因为它们的N端残基被封闭。本文介绍了一种对N端残基为N - 乙酰丝氨酸(在真核蛋白质中频繁出现)或N - 乙酰苏氨酸的此类蛋白质进行去封闭的方法。该方法已成功应用于测定人、牛和大鼠甲状旁胸腺素的N端氨基酸序列。胸腺素α原和其他封闭的蛋白质及肽也可通过此程序轻松去封闭并测序。有人提出,去封闭反应的机制涉及乙酰基的酸催化N→O迁移,随后进行β消除。