Immunoaffinity purification and characterization of nucleotide pyrophosphatase from human placenta

Nucleotide pyrophosphatase [EC 3.6.1.9] was purified to homogeneity from human placenta using a monoclonal antibody affinity column. By sodium dodecylsulfate--polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the purified enzyme showed a major band at a molecular size of 130 K. The enzyme was a glycoprotein with N-linked oligosaccharides consisting of both complex- and oligomannoside-types. Substrate specificity to hydrolyze phosphodiester and phosphosulfate linkages as well as other properties were similar to those of nucleotide pyrophosphatase and phosphodiesterase from other sources.