Proteolytic Activity against Model Peptides of the Cell Wall Lytic Enzyme fromChlamydomonas

摘要

A cell wall lytic enzyme (gamete wall-autolysin) fromChlamydomonas reinhardtiispecifically cleaved several synthetic model peptides,α-neo-endorphin, dynorphin (1–13), neurotensin and mastoparan, at the peptide bonds between consecutive hydrophobic amino-acid residues. The cleavage was not significantly affected by high-salt conditions which are known to inhibit digestion of the cell wa