The extraction and characterization of bovine epidermal alpha-keratin.

The Biochemical Journal
P M Steinert

Abstract

1. The alpha-fibrous protein (alpha-keratin) component of bovine epidermis has been extracted and characterized. 2. Prekeratin, a multichain unit of the epidermal tonofilaments, was shown to consist of six different polypeptide chains on polyacrylamide-gel systems containing sodium dodecyl sulphate or sodium decyl sulphate with discontinuous gel buffers, but only three chains were seen when a gel system containing sodium dodecyl sulphate with a continuous gel buffer was used. 3. Extraction of the 'keratinized' stratum corneum and the living part of the epidermis with urea buffers at pH 7.6 or 9.0 released 60% of the total dry weight of the tissues in the form of alpha-helical polypeptides. 4. The numbers, relative amounts and properties of the extracted polypeptides were the same as the subunits of prekeratin and thus are derived from the tonofilaments in situ. 5. The subunits of prekeratin and the polypeptides extracted from the living cell layers contained an average of six cysteine residues, but those from the stratum corneum contained an average of three intrachain disulphide bonds. 6. The polypeptide chains aggregated through non-covalent interactions in vitro into filaments that were similar to the tonofilaments. 7. Since...Continue Reading

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