Wj. Chiou et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF 2 ENDOTHELIN-CONVERTING ENZYMES AND THEIR PREFERENCE FOR BIG ENDOTHELIN-1 AND -2 AS SUBSTRATES, Life sciences, 54(21), 1994, pp. 1613-1619
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Biology,"Medicine, Research & Experimental","Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Two proteolytic activities that convert big ET to ET at neutral pH wer
e identified in solubilized membranes prepared from rat lung. The endo
thelin-converting activities were partially purified by using A80227 (
2S,3R,4S)-2-{[N-acetylcyclohexylalanyl-isoleucyl] ino}-1-(2-naphthyl)-
3,4-dihydroxy-6-methylheptane) coupled to an affinity-gel column (Affi
gel), and subsequently by concanavalin-A immobilized gel chromatograph
y. An endothelin-converting activity was identified in the fraction co
ntaining proteins that did not bind to A80227-Affigel. This protease w
as sensitive to phosphoramidon, soybean trypsin inhibitor, and chymost
atin, and preferred big ET-1 or big ET-2 as its substrate over big ET-
3. A second endothelin-converting activity was identified in the fract
ion containing proteins that bound to the A80227-coupled gel and was e
luted by raising the pH. This protease exhibited activities throughout
a range of pH 5.5-9.5, was inhibited by pepstatin A and A80227, and a
lso preferred big ET-1 or big ET-2 over big ET-3 as its substrate. Bot
h enzymes were glycoproteins based on their binding to concanavalin-A
immobilized gel and were readily eluted by a buffer containing 0.5 M m
anopyranoside. The results from the pH and protease inhibitor profiles
suggesting that these two ET-converting activities extracted from rat
lung membranes are distinct and are different from the previously rep
orted endothelin-converting enzymes.