“…Two different MI protein fractions endowed with deamidase activity have been isolated. The fraction of 218,000 M, used for the characterization is a glycoprotein containing 2.84% mannose and 0.57% glucosamine, consisting of four subunits of 60,000 MI (Su and Chaykin, 1971;Gillam et al, 1973). It is inhibited by a large variety of compounds, including fatty acids present in liver homogenates (Greengard et d., 1969;Gillam et al, 1973), thyroxine, which causes the disruption of the enzyme structure (Gillam et al, 1973), and the site-specific reagents DFP (diisopropylfluorophosphate) and ZPCK (carbobenzoxyamido-2-phenylethyl chloromethyl ketone), thus implicating the presence of seryl and histidil residues in the active center (Albizati, and Hedrick, 1972;Gillam et al, 1973).…”