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The thermal depolymerization of porcine submaxillary mucin.
The time dependence of the molecular weight, radius of gyration, and hydrodynamic size distribution for porcine submaxillary mucin (PSM) in solution have been studied using static and dynamic light scattering. The weight average molecular weight (Mw) of PSM in 6 M guanidine HCl, pH 7, is initially 3 X 10(6) and decreases with time in three phases: rapidly from 3-2 X 10(6), less rapidly from 2-0.9 X 10(6), and slowly below 0.9 X 10(6). The rates of decrease are much greater at pH 2. The energy of activation associated with each phase is 20 kcal/mol, which is similar to that reported for peptide bond cleavage at an aspartic acid residue. Addition of mercaptoethanol to PSM in 6 M guanidine HCl leads to a rapid decrease in Mw to 0.9 X 10(6), followed by a very slow further decrease. These results suggest that native PSM consists of subunits (Mw = 0.9 X 10(6] that are linked by disulfide bonds to form dimers (Mw = 2 X 10(6] and then higher aggregates. This cross-linking appears to occur at unglycosylated regions of the protein core, which are believed to be richer in aspartic acid than the rest of the molecule.
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