ACTIVE-CENTERS OF STREPTOMYCES-GRISEUS PROTEASE-3, ALPHA-CHYMOTRYPSIN, AND ELASTASE - ENZYME-SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS CLOSE TO SCISSILE BOND
ACTIVE-CENTERS OF STREPTOMYCES-GRISEUS PROTEASE-3, ALPHA-CHYMOTRYPSIN, AND ELASTASE - ENZYME-SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS CLOSE TO SCISSILE BOND
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00651a020
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
BLOUT, ER
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作者:
BAUER, CA;THOMPSON, RC;BLOUT, ER
Kinetic constants are reported for-chymo-trypsin-, Streptomyces griseus protease 3 (SGP3)-, and elastase-catalyzed hydrolysis of a number of peptides. SGP3, like-chymotrypsin, hydrolyzes most readily amide bonds whose immediate acyl group (Pi) is a large, hydrophobic, amino acid residue. SGP3, however, has a broader specificity for Pi residues than does-chymotrypsin, primarily be-cause the most important interactions between SGP3 and residue Pi of the substrate involve the Cp and C7 groups of the P] side chain. For substrates of all three proteases, theIViuch of our current knowledge of proteolytic enzymes can be understood in terms of their interactions with the two amino acid residues which form thescissile bond of the substrate. These interactions are the basis of the enzymes’ primary specificity. Recently, it has become apparent that these enzymes often interact with other amino acid residues of the substrate, leading to a “secondary specificity”(Fru-ton, 1975), with long peptides being hydrolyzed more rapidly than short ones. The preceding paper (Bauer et al., 1976) described the secondary specificity of both a-chymotrypsin and Streptomyces griseus Protease 3 (SGP3) 1. To determine the relationship between secondary and primary speci-ficity in these enzymes, we have also studied some of the en-zyme-substrate interactions manifested inthe primary specificity of-chymotrypsin, SGP3, and a related serine protease, pancreatic elastase.-Chymotrypsin is known to hydrolyze most rapidly pep-tide bonds whose acyl group (Pi) 2 is an aromatic amino acid, and this specificity is well-understood in terms of the structure of the enzyme-substrate complex (Blow, 1971). The specificity of elastase for hydrolyzing bonds whose acyl group is a small hydrophobic amino acid is also well-estab-lished (Geneste and Bender, 1969; Kaplan et al., 1970; Thompson and Blout, 1973b), and a structural basis for this specificity has been presented (Hartley and Shotton, 1971; Shotton et al., 1972). In contrast, the primary specificity of SGP3 is neither well-established nor is it understood in structural terms. This communication will report a compar-ison of the primary specificity of-chymotrypsin and SGP3 and suggest ways in which the structure of the S¡—Pi con-tact might be expected to differ in these two enzymes.