Isolation of human complement subcomponents C1r and C1s in their unactivated, proenzyme forms. 1991

P D Lane, and V N Schumaker, and Y Tseng, and P H Poon
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.

We have modified a standard isolation procedure for C1r and C1s, which employs IgG-Sepharose affinity chromatography followed by DEAE chromatography. As usual, all steps were performed at low temperature and two proteolytic inhibitors, PMSF and NPGB, were added during affinity chromatography on IgG-Sepharose. The novel condition was to keep the pH at pH 6.1 during the entire procedure, where activation was markedly depressed. In addition, purification was improved by washing the IgG-Sepharose column with a buffer free of added divalent cations immediately prior to elution of the C1r and C1s with EDTA. The final yields of highly purified C1r and C1s were about 20%; little or no activated material was detected in these highly purified fractions.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002846 Chromatography, Affinity A chromatographic technique that utilizes the ability of biological molecules, often ANTIBODIES, to bind to certain ligands specifically and reversibly. It is used in protein biochemistry. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed) Chromatography, Bioaffinity,Immunochromatography,Affinity Chromatography,Bioaffinity Chromatography
D002852 Chromatography, Ion Exchange Separation technique in which the stationary phase consists of ion exchange resins. The resins contain loosely held small ions that easily exchange places with other small ions of like charge present in solutions washed over the resins. Chromatography, Ion-Exchange,Ion-Exchange Chromatography,Chromatographies, Ion Exchange,Chromatographies, Ion-Exchange,Ion Exchange Chromatographies,Ion Exchange Chromatography,Ion-Exchange Chromatographies
D003173 Complement C1s A 77-kDa subcomponent of complement C1, encoded by gene C1S, is a SERINE PROTEASE existing as a proenzyme (homodimer) in the intact complement C1 complex. Upon the binding of COMPLEMENT C1Q to antibodies, the activated COMPLEMENT C1R cleaves C1s into two chains, A (heavy) and B (light, the serine protease), linked by disulfide bonds yielding the active C1s. The activated C1s, in turn, cleaves COMPLEMENT C2 and COMPLEMENT C4 to form C4b2a (CLASSICAL C3 CONVERTASE). C 1 Esterase,C1 Esterase,C1s Complement,Complement 1 Esterase,Complement 1s,Complement Component 1s,C1s, Complement,Complement, C1s,Component 1s, Complement,Esterase, C 1,Esterase, C1,Esterase, Complement 1
D004591 Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis in which a polyacrylamide gel is used as the diffusion medium. Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis,SDS-PAGE,Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-PAGE,Gel Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide,SDS PAGE,Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate PAGE,Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-PAGEs
D004792 Enzyme Precursors Physiologically inactive substances that can be converted to active enzymes. Enzyme Precursor,Proenzyme,Proenzymes,Zymogen,Zymogens,Precursor, Enzyme,Precursors, Enzyme
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D015923 Complement C1r A 80-kDa subcomponent of complement C1, existing as a SERINE PROTEASE proenzyme in the intact complement C1 complex. When COMPLEMENT C1Q is bound to antibodies, the changed tertiary structure causes autolytic activation of complement C1r which is cleaved into two chains, A (heavy) and B (light, the serine protease), connected by disulfide bonds. The activated C1r serine protease, in turn, activates COMPLEMENT C1S proenzyme by cleaving the Arg426-Ile427 bond. No fragment is released when either C1r or C1s is cleaved. C1r Complement,Complement 1r,Complement Component 1r,C1r, Complement,Complement, C1r,Component 1r, Complement

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