Affiliation:
1. Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154
Abstract
Normal animal sera inhibit at least one
Clostridium histolyticum
proteinase. An assay procedure based on immune hemolysis was developed for the estimation of this inhibition. This inhibitory activity occurs in various levels in the sera of different animal species. The highest titers have been obtained with rat sera. The inhibitory activity from human serum was isolated and purified 16- to 27-fold by Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and diethylaminoethyl cellulose or hydroxylapatite chromatography. The properties of the human serum inhibitor of the clostridial proteinase were compared with a trypsin inhibiting factor found in the partially purified preparations. Identical behavior of the two inhibitory factors was observed when measured by heat inactivation, β-mercaptoethanol sensitivity,
p
H stability, and sucrose gradient centrifugation. The inhibitory factor has an approximate sedimentation coefficient (
S
20,
w
) of 17. Goat anti–α-2-macroglobulin specifically precipitated the clostridial proteinase inhibitor from a partially purified preparation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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