Copper proteins and ferroxidases in human plasma and that of wild-type and ceruloplasmin knockout mice.
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In the blood plasma of humans and rats, ceruloplasmin is the major copper-binding protein and ferroxidase, accounting for 70% of the copper present in the plasma, with the rest binding primarily to albumin and a macroglobulin. Systematic studies with fresh plasma were carried out to compare what occurs in the mouse. C57BL6 mice had half as much copper and pPD (p-phenylene diamine) oxidase activity as humans and rats, 20-40% as much ferroxidase activity as humans (determined using three different assays) and less inhibition by azide. Plasma from ceruloplasmin knockout mice had no pPD oxidase activity, but retained >50% ferroxidase activity (which was not as affected by azide). Modelling of mouse ceruloplasmin against the known X-ray structure of human ceruloplasmin indicated subtle but potentially significant changes in the pPD- and azide-binding sites. Purification and in-gel assays after native PAGE confirmed that mouse ceruloplasmin had ferroxidase activity but revealed an additional ferroxidase in ceruloplasmin knockout mouse plasma, which is also seen in size-exclusion chromatography. In the wild-type mouse, the 'ceruloplasmin' peak contained approximately 55% of the total copper, but ceruloplasmin knockout plasma exposed a major additional peak (180 kDa) which co-eluted with ferroxidase activity. Two other ferroxidases (700 and 2000 Da) were also detected in mouse and human plasma. Mammalian blood thus contains copper components and ferroxidases not reported previously.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Biochemical journal
دوره 419 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009