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Purification of human pancreatic gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase by lectin affinity chromatography
N Yamaguchi1, S M Chung, T Ashihara
1Department of Preventive Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
Abstract:
Two types of pancreatic gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGTP) (EC 2.3.2.2), sialic acid poor and sialic acid rich, were purified by the following: anion-exchange chromatography, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)-Sepharose chromatography, gel filtration chromatography, phenyl-Superose chromatography, and hydroxylapatite chromatography. Among these, WGA-Sepharose chromatography helped to increase the specific activity of the GGTPs by approximately 20-30-fold in one effort. On dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the two pancreatic GGTPs had different molecular weights. Sialic acid-rich GGTP had two subunits of Mr 67,000 and 27,000; however, the sialic acid-poor type had two subunits of Mr 72,000 and 29,000. The pI value of the sialic acid-poor GGTP was 5.9, and that of the sialic acid-rich GGTP 3.6.