A Model to Explain the PH-dependent Specificity of Cathepsin B-catalysed Hydrolyses

Overview

Journal Biochem J

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1991 May 1

PMID 2039451

Citations 13

Authors

H E Khouri

C Plouffe

S Hasnain

T Hirama

A C Storer

R Menard

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Abstract

1. Three synthetic substrates of cathepsin B (EC 3.4.22.1) with various amino acid residues at the P2 position (Cbz-Phe-Arg-NH-Mec, Cbz-Arg-Arg-NH-Mec and Cbz-Cit-Arg-NH-Mec, where Cbz represents benzyloxycarbonyl and NH-Mec represents 4-methylcoumarin-7-ylamide) were used to investigate the pH-dependency of cathepsin B-catalysed hydrolyses and to obtain information on the nature of enzyme-substrate interactions. 2. Non-linear-regression analysis of pH-activity profiles for these substrates indicates that at least four ionizable groups on cathepsin B with pKa values of 3.3, 4.55, 5.46 and greater than 7.3 can affect the rate of substrate hydrolysis. 3. Ionization of the residue with a pKa of 5.46 has a strong effect on activity towards the substrate with an arginine in P2 (8.4-fold increase in activity) but has only a moderate effect on the rate of hydrolysis with Cbz-Cit-Arg-NH-Mec (2.3-fold increase in activity) and virtually no effect with Cbz-Phe-Arg-NH-Mec. The kinetic data are consistent with this group being an acid residue with a side chain able to interact with the side chains of an arginine or a citrulline in the P2 position of a substrate. Amino acid sequence alignment and model building with the related enzyme papain (EC 3.4.22.2) suggest that Glu-245 of cathepsin B is a likely candidate. The relative importance of electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions in the S2 subsite of cathepsin B is discussed. 4. For all three substrates, activity appears after ionization of a group with a pKa of 3.3, believed to be the active-site Cys-29 of cathepsin B. The identity of the groups with pKa values of 4.55 and greater than 7.3 remains unknown.

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