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Direct affinity purification and supramolecular organization of human lysosomal cathepsin A.

Cathepsin A (also named "protective protein" and carboxypeptidase L) stabilizes beta-galactosidase and activates neuraminidase by forming with them a high-molecular-weight lysosomal complex. We determined the main forms of the supramolecular organization of human placental cathepsin A and the quantitative relationship between them, using an affinity chromatography on agarose-Phe-Leu for direct purification of cathepsin A. We found that cathepsin A in human placenta exists as the following three forms: a 1270-kDa complex with beta-galactosidase and neuraminidase (about 1% of total cathepsin A), a 680-kDa complex with beta-galactosidase (30-40% of total), and a free 98-kDa cathepsin A dimer (60-70% of total). All forms are in dynamic equilibrium with each other, but almost all placental beta-galactosidase is associated with cathepsin A in the 680-kDa complex. The main properties of free cathepsin A (including the capacity to associate with beta-galactosidase) were found to be identical to those of cathepsin A obtained by dissociation of the 680-kDa complex. The presence of a free cathepsin A pool in the lysosome is connected with its sixfold overproduction in the cell compared to beta-galactosidase and may be necessary to ensure cathepsin A proteolytic function in addition to its protective role for beta-galactosidase and neuraminidase in the lysosomal multienzymatic complex. Such a dual function of cathepsin A is also confirmed by our finding that it is the only carboxypeptidase of placenta extract able to catalyze the hydrolysis of both carbobenzoxy (CBZ)-Glu-Tyr and CBZ-Phe-Leu dipeptide substrates.[1]

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  1. Direct affinity purification and supramolecular organization of human lysosomal cathepsin A. Pshezhetsky, A.V., Potier, M. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. (1994) [Pubmed]
 
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