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Subsite Preferences of Pepstatin-Insensitive Carboxyl Proteinases from Bacteria

Pseudomonas sp. 101 carboxyl proteinase (PCP) and Xanthomonas sp. T-22 carboxyl proteinase (XCP), the first and second unique carboxyl proteinases from prokaryotes to be isolated and characterized, are not inhibited by the classical carboxyl proteinase inhibitor pepstatin. In this study, we elucidat...

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Published in:Journal of biochemistry (Tokyo) 1999-01, Vol.125 (1), p.75-81
Main Authors: Narutaki, Shoji, Dunn, Ben M., Oda, Kohei
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Language:English
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Summary:Pseudomonas sp. 101 carboxyl proteinase (PCP) and Xanthomonas sp. T-22 carboxyl proteinase (XCP), the first and second unique carboxyl proteinases from prokaryotes to be isolated and characterized, are not inhibited by the classical carboxyl proteinase inhibitor pepstatin. In this study, we elucidated their subsite preferences by using a series of synthetic chromogenic substrates, Lys-Pro-Ile(P3)-Glu(P2)-Phe* Nph-Arg(P2′)-Leu(P3′) (Nph is p-nitrophenylalanine, Phe* Nph is the cleavage site) with systematic substitutions at the P3, P2, P2′ and P3′ positions. Among 45 substrates tested, the best substrate for PCP had a Leu replacement at the P2 position (kcat=27.2 s-l, Km=4.22 μM, kcat/Km = 6.43 μM-1.s-1). and that for XCP had an Ala replacement at the P3 position (Kcat=79.4 s-1, Km =6.05 μM, kcat/Km = 13.1 μM-1). PCP and XCP preferred such charged amino acid residues asGlu, Asp, Arg, or Lys at the P2′ position. This suggested that the S2′ subsites of PCP and XCP are occupied by hydrophilic residues, similar to that of pepstatin-insensitive carboxyl proteinase from Bacillus coagulans J-4 [Shibata et al. (1998) J. Biochem. 124,642–647]. In contrast, the S2′ subsite of pepstatin-sensitive carboxyl proteinases (aspartic proteinases) is hydrophobic in nature. Thus, the hydophilic nature of the S2′ subsite appears to be a distinguishing feature of pepstatin-insensitive carboxyl proteinases.
ISSN:0021-924X
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022271