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α1-Proteinase inhibitor was purified to homogeneity from carp serum with an increase in specific inhibitory activity of 17-fold and a 3% recovery rate. The inhibitor was estimated to have molecular weight of 55,000 under reducing and nonreducing conditions, indicating its composition of a single polypeptide. The inhibitor immunologically crossreacted faintly with carp muscular serine proteinase inhibitor but had no crossreactivity with serine proteinase inhibitors from other species. Carp serum inhibitor exhibited marked stability over broad pH ranges of 4.0 to 10.0 and temperatures below 55°C. The inhibitor potently inhibited the activities of carp intestinal and fish myofibril-binding proteinases, and its respective inhibitions of trypsin-type and carp muscular proteinases were more severe than those of chymotrypsin-type and white croaker muscular proteinases. Its inhibitions were similar to those of bovine pancreatic trypsin and α-chymotrypsin, and the amount required to completely inactivate 0.2 μg of each of these two proteinases was evaluated as 0.43 to 0.45 μg. This indicates a molar ratio close to 1:1 during combination of the inhibitor with each proteinase. In addition, its ability to form irreversible complexes with the proteinases was observed electrophoretically and immunologically under denaturing and reducing conditions.
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Received April 3, 1998; accepted June 30, 1998.
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Aranishi, F. Purification and Characterization of α1-Proteinase Inhibitor from Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Serum. Mar. Biotechnol. 1, 33–43 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00011749
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