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2007. 4. 14. 00:59
MAP (Methionine Aminopeptidase) is involved in protein maturation and is responsible for removal of N-terminal Met. The cleavage is dependent on the second amino acid residue. The substrate specificities of yeast and E. coli MAPs were identified as below.

Amino-terminal processing of mutant forms of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c. The specificities of methionine aminopeptidase and acetyltransferase. Tsunasawa S, Stewart JW, Sherman F.J Biol Chem. 1985 May 10;260(9):5382-91

... Amino-terminal processing in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been investigated by examining numerous mutationally altered forms of iso-1-cytochrome c. Amino-terminal residues of methionine were retained in sequences having penultimate residues of arginine, asparagine, glutamine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, and methionine; in contrast, the amino-terminal methionine residues were exercised from residues of alanine, glycine, and threonine and were partially excised from residues of valine.  ...

Processing of the initiation methionine from proteins: properties of the Escherichia coli methionine aminopeptidase and its gene structure. Ben-Bassat A, Bauer K, Chang SY, Myambo K, Boosman A, Chang S. J Bacteriol. 1987 Feb;169(2):751-7

This conclusion is consistent, in general, with the deduced specificity of the enzyme based on the analysis of known amino-terminal sequences of intracellular proteins (S. Tsunasawa, J. W. Stewart, and F. Sherman, J. Biol. Chem. 260:5382-5391, 1985).

Gonzales and Robert-Baudouy showed a table in their review paper (FEMS Microbiol Rev. 1996 Jul;18(4):319-44) about MAP.
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In Prokaryotes, there are two steps for protein maturation. Because the first amino acid is N-formylmethionine in prokaryotes, the removal of Met was followed by deformylation and these are the stepwise process (Adams JM., J Mol Biol. 1968 May 14;33(3):571-89) Almost half of E. coli proteins has Met in their N-terminus (Waller JP. J Mol Biol. 1963 Nov;62:483-96; Miller CG etal., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1987 May;84(9):2718-22.)
2007. 3. 24. 05:09
When people purify their proteins, they measure the molecular weight using MASS Spec. ESI-MASS is very nice to measure the molecular weight of proteins, and sometimes you find out your protein's MASS result is different from the theoretical molecular weight.

In most cases, unless the gene is correct, your proteins might be modified after translation. Post-translational modification is pretty common in any organisms, especially in eukayotes. Even if you express your protein in E. coli, you may get somewhat different MASS results.

The web site below is very useful to identify what kind of modification was occurred in your protein from molecular weight difference.

http://www.abrf.org/index.cfm/dm.home

If you want to see all kinds of modifications,




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