Peptide Inhibitors and Activators of Carboxypeptidase B

Immunochemical characterization of carboxypeptidase B-like peptide-hormone-processing enzyme.

Specific rabbit antisera against purified bovine pituitary carboxypeptidase processing enzyme (which has also been referred to as "enkephalin convertase") have been prepared and characterized. The antisera recognized both the purified soluble and the membrane-bound forms of the enzyme with equal affinity, suggesting that these two forms of the enzyme may possess many regions of structural homol...

Effect of Activators and Inhibitors on Lactase Activities to Determine its Kinetic Model

Activators and inhibitors of lens aldose reductase.

Aldose reductase in a highly purified state is unstable. It requires the presence of thiol groups to maintain it in an active form. The enzyme apparently exists in 3 forms, only one of which is active. Tetramethylene glutaric acid (TMG) is an effective aldose reductase inhibitor. However, a relatively high level of TMG is needed to depress dulcitol synthesis in the lens incubated in a galactose...

Inhibitors and activators of brain hexokinase.

Enzymatic Peptide Synthesis. Carboxypeptidase Y Catalyzed Formation of Peptide Bonds

It is demonstrated that carboxypeptidase Y from Saccharomyces cerevisiae can catalyze the formation of peptide bonds using N-acylamino acid esters as substrates and free amino acids or amino acid amides as nucleophiles, The coupling yields observed with free amino acids were max. 60 % for alanine and lysine and they depended strongly on the reaction parameters; viz. pH, temperature and concentr...