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Conditions were devised to avoid protease activity during the preparation and the subsequent handling of nuclear particles containing hnRNA. During all the steps of preparation of rat liver particles, the presence of phenylmethyl sulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) was required for the reproducibility of the results. It probably inhibited the cellular serine proteases before the separation of the particles from the other cellular structures.
Protease activity was detected in the rat liver particles. The enzyme(s) preferentially hydrolyzed a few particle polypeptides. It was not inhibited by PMSF, nor by two trypsin and chymotrypsin-like protease inhibitors, nor by iodoacetamide, but was inhibited by sodium bisulfite and para-hydroxymercury benzoate (PHMB). PHMB was preferred above bisulfite because it could be used at lower concentration. It proved useful when particles were to be incubated at 37° C.
A protease hydrolysing the same polypeptides as the liver enzyme was also detected in rat brain particles. However, its activity was much lower in this tissue and the presence of protease inhibitors was not absolutely required under the standard conditions of preparation and handling of brain particles.
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Stevenin, J., Gallinaro-Matringe, H. & Jacob, M. Protease activities during preparation and handling of nuclear particles containing hnRNA. Mol Biol Rep 3, 323–330 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00420390
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