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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 259, Issue 24, 15100-15105, 12, 1984

Biochemical characterization of human eosinophil Charcot-Leyden crystal protein (lysophospholipase)

PF Weller, DS Bach and KF Austen

Lysophospholipase from human eosinophils is a protein previously considered based upon antigenic, enzymatic, and electrophoretic similarities to be the single component of Charcot-Leyden crystals, which are formed in vivo in association with eosinophilic diseases. The identity of eosinophil lysophospholipase and solubilized Charcot-Leyden crystal protein is now established by biochemical criteria, and a basis for the ease of aggregation and crystallization of the protein is identified in its prominent hydrophobicity. Chromatographically purified enzyme and Charcot-Leyden crystal protein formed in vitro functioned as lysophospholipases with identical Michaelis constants (Km approximately equal to 22 microM) for the substrate lysopalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and had blocked amino-terminal residues and almost identical amino acid compositions. The propensity of lysophospholipase to aggregate was not due to extensive intermolecular disulfide bonding because it contained a single cysteine residue as assessed by amino acid analyses and incorporated 0.986 mol of p-chloromercuribenzoic acid/mol of native enzyme or 0.958 mol of iodoacetic acid/mol of reduced and denatured enzyme. By equilibrium dialysis, lysophospholipase bound 3.820 g of detergent/g of protein in 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate and 0.506 g of detergent/g of protein in 10 mM sodium deoxycholate. In addition, monomeric protein demonstrated enhanced binding of detergent as evidenced by its aberrantly rapid electrophoretic mobility in 1%, but not 0.1%, sodium dodecyl sulfate. The hydrophobic nature of this protein, which accounts for 10% of the protein of the eosinophil, may contribute to its unique propensity for crystallization in vivo.
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