Isolation and complete amino acid sequence of the mitochondrial ATP synthase epsilon-subunit of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

J Biol Chem. 1991 Jan 15;266(2):723-7.

Abstract

All five subunits of yeast mitochondrial F1-ATPase have been isolated by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography. This procedure allows micro-preparative purification of all the subunits with 60% recoveries. The complete amino acid sequence of the epsilon-subunit has been established. This has been achieved by the sequence analysis of subnanomole amounts of the intact molecule and that of peptides derived by enzymatic digestion with endoproteinase Arg-C and by chemical cleavage with hydroxylamine. Yeast ATP synthase epsilon-subunit is composed of 61 residues with a calculated molecular mass of 6612 Da. This polypeptide is rather basic since it contains 7 basic residues and 3 acidic residues. This study shows a slight similarity with the bovine epsilon-subunit ATP synthase since there are 16 identical residues.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Cattle
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Mitochondria / enzymology*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Proton-Translocating ATPases / chemistry
  • Proton-Translocating ATPases / isolation & purification*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / enzymology*
  • Sequence Alignment

Substances

  • Proton-Translocating ATPases