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Furin

Catalog # Concentration Size List Price Quantity Your Price
P8077L 2000 units/ml 250 units $982.00
$883.80
P8077S 2000 units/ml 50 units $247.00
$222.30
Catalog # Size List Price Your Price
P8077L 250 units $982.00
$883.80
P8077S 50 units $247.00
$222.30
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Furin is a recombinant, ubiquitous subtilisin-like proprotein convertase with a minimal cleavage site of Arg-X-X-Arg˅. However, the enzyme prefers the site Arg-X-Lys/Arg-Arg˅. 

  • It is the major processing enzyme of the secretory pathway and is localized in the trans-golgi network
  • Substrates of Furin include blood clotting factors, serum proteins and growth factor receptors such as the insulin-like growth factor receptor
Furin is a ubiquitous subtilisin-like proprotein convertase. It is the major processing enzyme of the secretory pathway and is localized in the trans-golgi network (1,2). Substrates of Furin include blood clotting factors, serum proteins and growth factor receptors such as the insulin-like growth factor receptor. The minimal cleavage site is Arg-X-X-Arg'. However, the enzyme prefers the site Arg-X-(Lys/Arg)-Arg'. An additional arginine at the P6 position appears to enhance cleavage (3). Furin is inhibited by EGTA, α1- Antitrypsin Portland (4) and polyarginine compounds (5).
Product Source
Isolated from Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells infected with recombinant baculovirus carrying truncated human furin.
Reagents Supplied

The following reagents are supplied with this product:

NEB # Component Name Component # Stored at (°C) Amount Concentration
  Furin P8077SVIAL -20 1 x 0.025 ml 2,000 units/ml
  Furin P8077LVIAL -20 1 x 0.125 ml 2,000 units/ml

Properties & Usage

Unit Definition

1 unit is defined as the amount of enzyme required to cleave 25 µg of a MBP-FN-paramyosin-ΔSal substrate to 95% completion in 6 hours at 25°C in a total reaction volume of 25 µl.

Storage Buffer

10 mM MES
1 mM CaCl2
50% Glycerol
pH 7 @ 25°C

Molecular Weight

Theoretical: 52.7 kDa

Unit Assay Conditions

Two fold dilutions of Furin are incubated with 25 µg MBP-FN-paramyosin-ΔSal substrate in 20 mM HEPES, 0.1% Triton X-100, 1 mM CaCl2, 0.2mM β-mercaptoenthanol (pH 7.5 @ 25°C) in a 25 µl reaction. The reaction mix is incubated at 25°C for 6 hours. Separation of reaction products are visualized by SDS-PAGE.

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Notes
  • Both Furin and Onchocerca volvulus Blisterase will cleave peptide substrates with the sequence, Arg-X- (Lys/Arg)-Arg. However, the ability of either enzyme to cleave a particular protein substrate depends on its tertiary structure as well as on the amino acids immediately surrounding the cleavage site (6).
References
  • van den Ouweland, A.M.W. et al. (1990). Nucl. Acids Res. 18, 664.
  • Steiner, D.F. (1998). Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol.. 2,
  • Krysan, D.J. et al. (1999). J. Biol. Chem.. 274, 23229-23234.
  • Jean, F. et al. (1998). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 95, 7293-7298.
  • Cameron, A. et al. (2000). J. Biol. Chem.. 275, 36741-36749.
  • Poole, C.B. et al. (2003). J. Biol. Chem.. 278, 36183-36190.
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