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Human PGA4 / Pepsinogen A Protein (His Tag)

FLJ58952,FLJ77962,PGA3,PGA4,PGA5

Catalog Number P13082-H08H
Organism Species Human
Host Human Cells
Synonyms FLJ58952,FLJ77962,PGA3,PGA4,PGA5
Molecular Weight The secreted recombinant human PGA4 consists of 384 amino acids and has a predicted molecular mass of 41.7 kDa. It migrates as an approximately 45 kDa band in SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions.
predicted N Ile 16
SDS-PAGE
Purity > 97 % as determined by SDS-PAGE
Protein Construction A DNA sequence encoding the human PGA4 (P00790) (Met 1-Ala 388) was fused with a polyhistidine tag at the C-terminus.
Bio-activity Measured by its ability to cleave the fluorogenic peptide substrate, Mca-RPKPVE-Nval-WRK(Dnp)-NH2, AnaSpec, Catalog # 27114.
The specific activity is > 10,000 pmoles/min/μg.
(Activation description: The enzyme achieves its activity under acidic pH)
Research Area Cancer |Invasion microenvironment |Adhesion molecule |Extracelluar matrix |others in ECM
Formulation Lyophilized from sterile PBS, pH 7.4
1. Normally 5 % - 8 % trehalose, mannitol and 0.01% Tween80 are added as protectants before lyophilization. Specific concentrations are included in the hardcopy of COA.
Background PGA4 (Pepsinogen 4, group I), or Pepsinogen A, is a member of the peptidase A1 family. Pepsin is expressed as a pro-form zymogen, pepsinogen, whose primary structure has an additional 44 amino acids. Pepsin is stored as pepsinogen so it will only be released when needed, and does not digest the body's own proteins in the stomach's lining. Five types of zymogens of pepsins, gastric digestive proteinases, are known: pepsinogens A, B, and F, progastricsin, and prochymosin. There are two major groups of pepsinogen, namely pepsinogen A (PGA) and pepsinogen C (PGC) (or progastricsin), and each frequently has isozymogens. The PGA3, PGA4 and PGA5 genes encode identical human pepsinogen A enzymes.
Reference
  • Kageyama T. (2002) Pepsinogens, progastricsins, and prochymosins: structure, function, evolution, and development. Cell Mol Life Sci. 59(2): 288-306.
  • Takahashi K. (1992) Gene structures of pepsinogens A and C. Scand J Clin Lab Invest Suppl. 210: 97-110.