Isolation, expression and characterization of a novel dual serine protease inhibitor, OH-TCI, from king cobra venom
Isolation, expression and characterization of a novel dual serine protease inhibitor, OH-TCI, from king cobra venom
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眼镜王蛇毒液中新型双丝氨酸蛋白酶抑制剂 OH-TCI 的分离、表达和表征
DOI:
10.1016/j.peptides.2008.05.025
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发表时间:
2008-10-01
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3
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Zhang, Yun
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作者:
He, Ying-Ying;Liu, Shu-Bai;Zhang, Yun
Snake venom Kunitz/BPTI members are good tools for understanding of structure-functional relationship between serine proteases and their inhibitors. A novel dual Kunitz/BPTI serine proteinase inhibitor named OH-TCI (trypsin- and chymotrypsin-dual inhibitor from Ophiophagus hannah) was isolated from king cobra venom by three chromatographic steps of gel filtration, trypsin affinity and reverse phase HPLC. OH-TCI is composed of 58 amino acid residues with a molecular mass of 6339 Da. Successful expression of OH-TCI was performed as the maltose-binding fusion protein in E. coli DH5 alpha . Much different from Oh11-1, the purified native and recombinant OH-TCI both had strong inhibitory activities against trypsin and chymotrypsin although the sequence identity (74.1%) between them is very high. The inhibitor constants (K-i) of recombinant OH-TCI were 3.91 x 10(-7) and 8.46 x 10(-8) M for trypsin and chymotrypsin, respectively. To our knowledge, it was the first report of Kunitz/BPTI serine proteinase inhibitor from snake venom that had equivalent trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitory activities. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.