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Published on: September 9, 2012
Factor J, a human inhibitor of complement C1, is a cationic, highly glycosylated protein
M A Jiménez-Clavero1, C González-Rubio, G Fontán
1Unidad de Immunología, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
Factor J (FJ) is a new inhibitor of the complement system. This work supports the fact that FJ is a cationic molecule (pI > or = 9.6 in native conditions, or pI = 8.1 in denaturing conditions) with a high sugar content (40%) that is able to interact with different lectins, suggesting a complex glycosylation. SDS impaired FJ migration in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In Triton-acid-urea-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis FJ migrated as a complex, dispersed molecule. In contrast, FJ after Smith degradation (dFJ) gave a single, smeared band of M(r) = 23.4 kDa in reducing SDS-PAGE. dFJ retained only 60% of the initial inhibitory activity of intact FJ. When digestions with different proteinases were performed, no modification of activity was observed. After beta-glucuronidase digestion, FJ lost 80% of its initial activity. Consequently, glycosylation plays an important role in the inhibitory activity of FJ.
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