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Phosphinotripeptidic Inhibitors of Leucylaminopeptidases. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22105090. [PMID: 34065004 PMCID: PMC8151835 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22105090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Phosphinate pseudopeptide are analogs of peptides containing phosphinate moiety in a place of the amide bond. Due to this, the organophosphorus fragment resembles the tetrahedral transition state of the amide bond hydrolysis. Additionally, it is also capable of coordinating metal ions, for example, zinc or magnesium ions. These two properties of phosphinate pseudopeptides make them an ideal candidate for metal-related protease inhibitors. This research investigates the influence of additional residue in the P2 position on the inhibitory properties of phosphinopeptides. The synthetic strategy is proposed, based on retrosynthetic analysis. The N-C-P bond formation in the desired compounds is conveniently available from the three-component condensation of appropriate amino components, aldehydes, and hypophosphorous acid. One of the crucial synthetic steps is the careful selection of the protecting groups for all the functionals. Determination of the inhibitor activity of the obtained compounds has been done using UV-Vis spectroscopy and standard substrate L-Leu-p-nitroanilide toward the enzymes isolated from the porcine kidney (SsLAP, Sus scrofa Leucine aminopeptidase) and barley seeds (HvLAP, Hordeum vulgare Leucine aminopeptidase). An efficient procedure for the preparation of phosphinotripeptides has been performed. Activity test shown that introduction of additional residue into P2 position obtains the micromolar range inhibitors of SsLAP and HvLAP. Moreover, careful selection of the residue in the P2 position should improve its selectivity toward mammalian and plant leucyl aminopeptidases.
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The mercapturic acid pathway is a major route for the biotransformation of xenobiotic and endobiotic electrophilic compounds and their metabolites. Mercapturic acids (N-acetyl-l-cysteine S-conjugates) are formed by the sequential action of the glutathione transferases, γ-glutamyltransferases, dipeptidases, and cysteine S-conjugate N-acetyltransferase to yield glutathione S-conjugates, l-cysteinylglycine S-conjugates, l-cysteine S-conjugates, and mercapturic acids; these metabolites constitute a "mercapturomic" profile. Aminoacylases catalyze the hydrolysis of mercapturic acids to form cysteine S-conjugates. Several renal transport systems facilitate the urinary elimination of mercapturic acids; urinary mercapturic acids may serve as biomarkers for exposure to chemicals. Although mercapturic acid formation and elimination is a detoxication reaction, l-cysteine S-conjugates may undergo bioactivation by cysteine S-conjugate β-lyase. Moreover, some l-cysteine S-conjugates, particularly l-cysteinyl-leukotrienes, exert significant pathophysiological effects. Finally, some enzymes of the mercapturic acid pathway are described as the so-called "moonlighting proteins," catalytic proteins that exert multiple biochemical or biophysical functions apart from catalysis.
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- Patrick E Hanna
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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Razzaq A, Shamsi S, Ali A, Ali Q, Sajjad M, Malik A, Ashraf M. Microbial Proteases Applications. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2019; 7:110. [PMID: 31263696 PMCID: PMC6584820 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The use of chemicals around the globe in different industries has increased tremendously, affecting the health of people. The modern world intends to replace these noxious chemicals with environmental friendly products for the betterment of life on the planet. Establishing enzymatic processes in spite of chemical processes has been a prime objective of scientists. Various enzymes, specifically microbial proteases, are the most essentially used in different corporate sectors, such as textile, detergent, leather, feed, waste, and others. Proteases with respect to physiological and commercial roles hold a pivotal position. As they are performing synthetic and degradative functions, proteases are found ubiquitously, such as in plants, animals, and microbes. Among different producers of proteases, Bacillus sp. are mostly commercially exploited microbes for proteases. Proteases are successfully considered as an alternative to chemicals and an eco-friendly indicator for nature or the surroundings. The evolutionary relationship among acidic, neutral, and alkaline proteases has been analyzed based on their protein sequences, but there remains a lack of information that regulates the diversity in their specificity. Researchers are looking for microbial proteases as they can tolerate harsh conditions, ways to prevent autoproteolytic activity, stability in optimum pH, and substrate specificity. The current review focuses on the comparison among different proteases and the current problems faced during production and application at the industrial level. Deciphering these issues would enable us to promote microbial proteases economically and commercially around the world.
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- Abdul Razzaq
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Key Laboratory of Biological and Genetic Breeding of Cotton, The Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China
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- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, The Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- 1-FB, Genetics, Four Brothers Group, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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Laurinyecz B, Vedelek V, Kovács AL, Szilasi K, Lipinszki Z, Slezák C, Darula Z, Juhász G, Sinka R. Sperm-Leucylaminopeptidases are required for male fertility as structural components of mitochondrial paracrystalline material in Drosophila melanogaster sperm. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1007987. [PMID: 30802236 PMCID: PMC6388916 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Drosophila melanogaster sperm reach an extraordinary long size, 1.8 mm, by the end of spermatogenesis. The mitochondrial derivatives run along the entire flagellum and provide structural rigidity for flagellar movement, but its precise function and organization is incompletely understood. The two mitochondrial derivatives differentiate and by the end of spermatogenesis the minor one reduces its size and the major one accumulates paracrystalline material inside it. The molecular constituents and precise function of the paracrystalline material have not yet been revealed. Here we purified the paracrystalline material from mature sperm and identified by mass spectrometry Sperm-Leucylaminopeptidase (S-Lap) family members as important constituents of it. To study the function of S-Lap proteins we show the characterization of classical mutants and RNAi lines affecting of the S-Lap genes and the analysis of their mutant phenotypes. We show that the male sterile phenotype of the S-Lap mutants is caused by defects in paracrystalline material accumulation and abnormal structure of the elongated major mitochondrial derivatives. Our work shows that S-Lap proteins localize and accumulate in the paracrystalline material of the major mitochondrial derivative. Therefore, we propose that S-Lap proteins are important constituents of the paracrystalline material of Drosophila melanogaster sperm.
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Anatomy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry and MTA SZBK Lendület Laboratory of Cell Cycle Regulation, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Proteomics Research, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Anatomy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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Ziemska J, Solecka J, Jarończyk M. QSAR, docking studies and toxicology prediction of isoquinoline derivatives as leucine aminopeptidase inhibitors. CHEMICAL PAPERS 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s11696-017-0251-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Devkota L, Lin CM, Strecker TE, Wang Y, Tidmore JK, Chen Z, Guddneppanavar R, Jelinek CJ, Lopez R, Liu L, Hamel E, Mason RP, Chaplin DJ, Trawick ML, Pinney KG. Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of water-soluble amino acid prodrug conjugates derived from combretastatin, dihydronaphthalene, and benzosuberene-based parent vascular disrupting agents. Bioorg Med Chem 2016; 24:938-956. [PMID: 26852340 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2016.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2015] [Revised: 12/27/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Targeting tumor vasculature represents an intriguing therapeutic strategy in the treatment of cancer. In an effort to discover new vascular disrupting agents with improved water solubility and potentially greater bioavailability, various amino acid prodrug conjugates (AAPCs) of potent amino combretastatin, amino dihydronaphthalene, and amino benzosuberene analogs were synthesized along with their corresponding water-soluble hydrochloride salts. These compounds were evaluated for their ability to inhibit tubulin polymerization and for their cytotoxicity against selected human cancer cell lines. The amino-based parent anticancer agents 7, 8, 32 (also referred to as KGP05) and 33 (also referred to as KGP156) demonstrated potent cytotoxicity (GI50=0.11-40nM) across all evaluated cell lines, and they were strong inhibitors of tubulin polymerization (IC50=0.62-1.5μM). The various prodrug conjugates and their corresponding salts were investigated for cleavage by the enzyme leucine aminopeptidase (LAP). Four of the glycine water-soluble AAPCs (16, 18, 44 and 45) showed quantitative cleavage by LAP, resulting in the release of the highly cytotoxic parent drug, whereas partial cleavage (<10-90%) was observed for other prodrugs (15, 17, 24, 38 and 39). Eight of the nineteen AAPCs (13-16, 42-45) showed significant cytotoxicity against selected human cancer cell lines. The previously reported CA1-diamine analog and its corresponding hydrochloride salt (8 and 10, respectively) caused extensive disruption (at a concentration of 1.0μM) of human umbilical vein endothelial cells growing in a two-dimensional tubular network on matrigel. In addition, compound 10 exhibited pronounced reduction in bioluminescence (greater than 95% compared to saline control) in a tumor bearing (MDA-MB-231-luc) SCID mouse model 2h post treatment (80mg/kg), with similar results observed upon treatment (15mg/kg) with the glycine amino-dihydronaphthalene AAPC (compound 44). Collectively, these results support the further pre-clinical development of the most active members of this structurally diverse collection of water-soluble prodrugs as promising anticancer agents functioning through a mechanism involving vascular disruption.
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- Laxman Devkota
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9058, United States
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9058, United States
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- Screening Technologies Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, United States
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9058, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States.,OXiGENE Inc., 701 Gateway Boulevard, Suite 210, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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Laslo AC, Ganea E, Obinger C. Refolding of hexameric porcine leucine aminopeptidase using a cationic detergent and dextrin-10 as artificial chaperones. J Biotechnol 2009; 140:162-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2009.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2008] [Revised: 10/15/2008] [Accepted: 01/29/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stack CM, Lowther J, Cunningham E, Donnelly S, Gardiner DL, Trenholme KR, Skinner-Adams TS, Teuscher F, Grembecka J, Mucha A, Kafarski P, Lua L, Bell A, Dalton JP. Characterization of the Plasmodium falciparum M17 Leucyl Aminopeptidase. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:2069-80. [PMID: 17107951 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m609251200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Amino acids generated from the catabolism of hemoglobin by intra-erythrocytic malaria parasites are not only essential for protein synthesis but also function in maintaining an osmotically stable environment, and creating a gradient by which amino acids that are rare or not present in hemoglobin are drawn into the parasite from host serum. We have proposed that a Plasmodium falciparum M17 leucyl aminopeptidase (PfLAP) generates and regulates the internal pool of free amino acids and therefore represents a target for novel antimalarial drugs. This enzyme has been expressed in insect cells as a functional 320-kDa homo-hexamer that is optimally active at neutral or alkaline pH, is dependent on metal ions for activity, and exhibits a substrate preference for N-terminally exposed hydrophobic amino acids, particularly leucine. PfLAP is produced by all stages in the intra-erythrocytic developmental cycle of malaria but was most highly expressed by trophozoites, a stage at which hemoglobin degradation and parasite protein synthesis are elevated. The enzyme was located by immunohistochemical methods and by transfecting malaria cells with a PfLAP-green fluorescent protein construct, to the cytosolic compartment of the cell at all developmental stages, including segregated merozoites. Amino acid dipeptide analogs, such as bestatin and its derivatives, are potent inhibitors of the protease and also block the growth of P. falciparum malaria parasites in culture. This study provides a biochemical basis for the antimalarial activity of aminopeptidase inhibitors. Availability of functionally active recombinant PfLAP, coupled with a simple enzymatic readout, will aid medicinal chemistry and/or high throughput approaches for the future design/discovery of new antimalarial drugs.
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- Colin M Stack
- Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, University of Technology Sydney, Level 6, Building 4, Corner of Thomas and Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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Kim H, Lipscomb WN. Structure and mechanism of bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 68:153-213. [PMID: 8154324 DOI: 10.1002/9780470123140.ch4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- H Kim
- Gibbs Chemical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Weston J. Mode of action of bi- and trinuclear zinc hydrolases and their synthetic analogues. Chem Rev 2005; 105:2151-74. [PMID: 15941211 DOI: 10.1021/cr020057z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jennie Weston
- Institut für Organische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany.
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Holz RC. The aminopeptidase from Aeromonas proteolytica: structure and mechanism of co-catalytic metal centers involved in peptide hydrolysis. Coord Chem Rev 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0010-8545(01)00470-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Structure and Function of Bovine Lens Aminopeptidase and Comparison with Homologous Aminopeptidases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-21603-3_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
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Milligan SB, Gasser CS. Nature and regulation of pistil-expressed genes in tomato. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 28:691-711. [PMID: 7647301 DOI: 10.1007/bf00021194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The specialized reproductive functions of angiosperm pistils are dependent in part upon the regulated activation of numerous genes expressed predominantly in this organ system. To better understand the nature of these pistil-predominant gene products we have analyzed seven cDNA clones isolated from tomato pistils through differential hybridization screening. Six of the seven cDNAs represent sequences previously undescribed in tomato, each having a unique pistil- and/or floral-predominant expression pattern. The putative protein products encoded by six of the cDNAs have been identified by their similarity to sequences in the database of previously sequenced genes, with a seventh sequence having no significant similarity with any previously reported sequence. Three of the putative proteins appear to be targeted to the endomembrane system and include an endo-beta-1,4-glucanase which is expressed exclusively in pistils at early stages of development, and proteins similar in sequence to gamma-thionin and miraculin which are expressed in immature pistils and stamens, and in either sepals or petals, respectively. Two other clones, similar in sequence to each other, were expressed primarily in immature pistils and stamens and encode distinct proteins with similarity to leucine aminopeptidases. An additional clone, which encodes a protein similar in sequence to the enzyme hyoscyamine 6-beta-hydroxylase and to other members of the family of Fe2+/ascorbate-dependent oxidases, was expressed at high levels in pistils, stamens and sepals, and at detectable levels in some vegetative organs. Together, these observations provide new insight into the nature and possible functional roles of genes expressed during reproductive development.
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- S B Milligan
- Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
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Wallner BP, Hession C, Tizard R, Frey AZ, Zuliani A, Mura C, Jahngen-Hodge J, Taylor A. Isolation of bovine kidney leucine aminopeptidase cDNA: comparison with the lens enzyme and tissue-specific expression of two mRNAs. Biochemistry 1993; 32:9296-301. [PMID: 8369298 DOI: 10.1021/bi00087a006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Aminopeptidases catalyze the hydrolysis of amino acid residues from the amino terminus of peptide substrates. Leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) from bovine lens is the best characterized aminopeptidase and the only LAP for which the amino acid sequence was determined by protein sequencing. Using this sequence information, we isolated a bovine kidney LAP cDNA and compared its deduced amino acid sequence to the published amino acid sequence for bovine lens LAP. Overall, the sequences are highly conserved. However, several differences are observed. The kidney LAP cDNA indicates a 26 amino acid extension at the amino terminus which is not found in the mature purified lens LAP. The cDNA also indicates an additional octapeptide in the C-terminal region which was not indicated in the published lens LAP amino acid sequence but which was required for best fit of crystallographic data regarding bovine lens LAP. Several other single amino acid changes were also noted. Levels of LAP transcripts were examined in bovine lens and kidney tissue as well as in cultured lens cells. Lens epithelial tissue showed only one LAP transcript (2.4 kb) whereas two transcripts (2.0 and 2.4 kb) were observed in cultured lens cells derived from epithelial tissue and in kidney tissue. Using Northern blot analysis, we correlated LAP mRNA levels with previously determined changes of LAP activity in aging lens tissue and in progressively passaged lens epithelial cells which were used to simulate aging in vitro. No differences were found in LAP mRNA levels in epithelial tissue from old and young lenses.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Election of fellows to the royal society. Trends Biochem Sci 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/0968-0004(93)90108-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Taylor A, Peltier CZ, Torre FJ, Hakamian N. Inhibition of bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase by bestatin: number of binding sites and slow binding of this inhibitor. Biochemistry 1993; 32:784-90. [PMID: 8422382 DOI: 10.1021/bi00054a007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Aminopeptidases catalyze the hydrolysis of amino acid residues from the amino terminus of peptide substrates. Their activity has been implicated in myriad fundamental biochemical and physiological processes, and alterations in aminopeptidase activity have been correlated with a variety of pathologies. Nevertheless, information about this group of proteases is less well developed. Bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase (blLAP) can be considered prototypical of many enzymes in this family of peptidases. It shows common features of (1) requiring divalent metal ions for activity, (2) having a relatively large size, and (3) having slow, relatively tight binding of bestatin, a transition-state analog of the substrate PheLeu. Bovine lens LAP is the only bestatin-inhibitable aminopeptidase for which structural and mechanistic data are available. However, full exploitation of these data required knowledge of the number of inhibitor molecules bound per subunit. Independent direct binding experiments and kinetic determinations indicate that one bestatin is bound per subunit in blLAP. Ki and Ki* for formation of the initial and final complexes are approximately 1.1 x 10(-7) and 1.3 x 10(-9) M, respectively. The mode of binding is slow and competitive. The t1/2 for formation and deformation of the final enzyme-inhibitor complex is approximately 30 and 22 min, respectively, with 10(-8) M bestatin. To perform these measures, a new assay using physiological peptides (LeuGlyGly) as substrate was adapted. Taken together with prior NMR, photoaffinity labeling, and crystallographic data, these binding data allow us to propose a mechanism of the blLAP-catalyzed hydrolysis of peptides.
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- A Taylor
- Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
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TOLDRÁ FIDEL, ARISTOY MARIAC, PART CAROLINA, CERVERÓ CARMEN, RICO ELIAS, MOTILVA MARIAJOSÉ, FLORES JOSÉ. Muscle and Adipose Tissue Aminopeptidase Activities in Raw and Dry-Cured Ham. J Food Sci 1992. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1992.tb14301.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Taylor A, Peltier CZ, Jahngen EG, Laxman E, Szewczuk Z, Torre FJ. Use of azidobestatin as a photoaffinity label to identify the active site peptide of leucine aminopeptidase. Biochemistry 1992; 31:4141-50. [PMID: 1567860 DOI: 10.1021/bi00131a034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Aminopeptidases catalyze the hydrolysis of amino acid residues from the amino terminus of peptide substrates. They are found in most cells and tissues, and their activity has been implicated in myriad fundamental biochemical and physiological processes. Nevertheless, little is known about the structure of the aminopeptidase active sites. Beef lens leucine aminopeptidase (blLAP) can be considered prototypical of many enzymes in this family of peptidases. Bestatin, [(2S,3R)-(3-amino-2-hydroxy-4-phenyl-butanoyl)-L-leucine] is a nonhydrolyzable substrate analogue of a peptide, PheLeu, which is rapidly cleaved by blLAP. Bestatin incorporates elements of the putative tetrahedral intermediate, and this results in a greater than 10(5)-fold enhancement of binding relative to analogous peptides. Bestatin is the most tightly bound inhibitor of many aminopeptidases. Bestatin was successively converted to nitrobestatin, p-aminobestatin, [3H]-p-aminobestatin, and finally [3H]-p-azidobestatin (pAB). Like bestatin, pAB is a slow binding inhibitor of LAP (Ki*, the dissociation constant for the final complex, = approximately 4 x 10(-9); Ki, the dissociation constant for the initial collision complex, = approximately 10(-8). The t1/2 for binding of 2 x 10(-8) M and 8 x 10(-8) M bestatin are approximately 60 min and approximately 38 min, respectively. pAB, nitrobestatin, bestatin, and physiological peptides appear to bind in the same site, the first three with similar avidity. In the dark, pAB and bestatin protect low concentrations of the enzyme against inactivation upon extensive dialysis. The t1/2 for photoactivation of pAB is approximately 3 s. Irradiation of blLAP for such short periods of time resulted in insignificant change in activity. blLAP which was placed in 254-nm light in the presence of pAB was inactivated significantly. Treatment of photolabeled blLAP with trypsin produces only two peptides. Autoradiography and scintillation counting indicate that the active site is in the peptide which includes residues 138-487. Treatment of the same blLAP with hydroxylamine produces two different peptides, with the active site in the peptide 323-487. This indicates that the active site is in the carboxyl-terminal one-third of the protomer. It is likely that this photoaffinity label will be useful in identifying active sites in other aminopeptidases as well.
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- Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
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Burley SK, David PR, Sweet RM, Taylor A, Lipscomb WN. Structure determination and refinement of bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase and its complex with bestatin. J Mol Biol 1992; 224:113-40. [PMID: 1548695 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90580-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The three-dimensional structure of bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.1) complexed with bestatin, a slow-binding inhibitor, has been solved to 3.0 A resolution by the multiple isomorphous replacement method with phase combination and density modification. In addition, this structure and the structure of the isomorphous native enzyme have been refined at 2.25 and 2.32 A resolution, respectively, with crystallographic R-factors of 0.180 and 0.159, respectively. The current structural model for the enzyme includes the two zinc ions and 481 of the 487 amino acid residues comprising the asymmetric unit. The enzyme is physiologically active as a hexamer, which has 32 symmetry, and is triangular in shape with a triangle edge length of 115 A and maximal thickness of 90 A. Monomers are crystallographically equivalent. Each is folded into two unequal alpha/beta domains connected by an alpha-helix to give a comma-like shape with approximate maximal dimensions of 90 A x 55 A x 55 A. The secondary structural composition is 35% alpha-helix and 23% beta-strand. The N-terminal domain (160 amino acid residues) mediates trimer-trimer interactions and does not appear to participate directly in catalysis, while the C-terminal domain (327 amino acid residues) is responsible for catalysis and binds the two zinc ions, which are less than 3 A apart. These two metal ions are located near the edge of an eight-stranded, saddle-shaped beta-sheet. The zinc ion that has the lower temperature factor is co-ordinated by one carboxylate oxygen atom from each of Asp255, Asp332 and Glu334, and the carbonyl oxygen of Asp332. The other zinc ion, presumed to be readily exchangeable, is co-ordinated by one carboxylate oxygen atom of each of Asp273 and Glu334 and the side-chain amino group of Lys250. The active site also contains two positively charged residues, Lys262 and Arg336. The six active sites are themselves located in the interior of the hexamer, where they line a disk-shaped cavity of radius 15 A and thickness 10 A. Access to this cavity is provided by solvent channels that run along the 2-fold symmetry axes. Bestatin binds to one of the active site zinc ions, and its phenylalanine and leucine side-chains occupy hydrophobic pockets adjacent to the active site. Finally, the relationship between bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase and the homologous enzyme pepA from Escherichia coli is discussed.
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- S K Burley
- Gibbs Chemical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Sanderink GJ, Artur Y, Siest G. Human aminopeptidases: a review of the literature. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR KLINISCHE CHEMIE UND KLINISCHE BIOCHEMIE 1988; 26:795-807. [PMID: 3069949 DOI: 10.1515/cclm.1988.26.12.795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The aminopeptidases constitute a group of enzymes with closely related activities. In clinical chemistry the analysis of the aminopeptidases and of their multiple forms in serum has for a long time been hindered by considerable confusion concerning their identification, and by a lack of characterization. This is in part due to the often large, and sometimes overlapping substrate specificities of the aminopeptidases. This paper reviews the biochemical properties of the different aminopeptidases, the specificities of the assays used for their analysis in serum, some aspects of their multiple forms--which are especially known to occur for alanine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.2)--and the importance of the determination of aminopeptidases and their multiple forms in clinical chemistry.
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- G J Sanderink
- Laboratoire du Centre de Médecine Préventive, UA CNRS n. 597, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
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Eisenhauer DA, Berger JJ, Peltier CZ, Taylor A. Protease activities in cultured beef lens epithelial cells peak and then decline upon progressive passage. Exp Eye Res 1988; 46:579-90. [PMID: 3289956 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4835(88)80014-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Beef lens cells in culture are readily obtained and provide many opportunities to study phenomena related to cell differentiation and maturation, environmental stress, disease, and perhaps mechanisms of transformation. Although altered rates of proteolysis are known to accompany these phenomena, the proteolytic activities available in cultured beef lens epithelial cells have not been documented. In this work are documented the specific activities, based on protein and DNA content, of neutral exo- and endopeptidase, cathepsins B- and D-like enzymes and acid phosphatase in lens epithelial cortical and core tissue and in cultured epithelial cells at passages 1-43. Maximal activity of each protease occurs almost routinely at passage 5 or 9, reaching values of approx. 1400-, 0.77-, 4520-nmol min-1 per mg protein for neutral exopeptidase (passage 5), neutral endopeptidase (passage 5) and cathepsin B (passage 5) respectively, and 7.1 micrograms trichloroacetic acid soluble peptide min-1 per mg protein for cathepsin D (passage 15). On a microgram-1 DNA basis, the maximal specific activities for the same enzymes were 48 (passage 5), 0.03 (passage 5), 283 (passage 9), and 0.5 (passage 9) respectively. In subsequent passages, the specific activities declined to values which were similar to or lower than the specific activities observed for these proteases in lens epithelial tissue.
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- D A Eisenhauer
- USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111
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Oettgen HC, Taylor A. Purification, preliminary characterization, and immunological comparison of hog lens leucine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.1) with hog kidney and beef lens aminopeptidases. Anal Biochem 1985; 146:238-45. [PMID: 3922244 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(85)90421-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) was purified from hog lenses by application of the Himmelhoch procedure for isolation of hog kidney LAP [S. R. Himmelhoch (1970) in Methods in Enzymology (Perlmann, G. E., and Lorand, L., eds.), Vol. 19, pp. 508-513, Academic Press, New York.] This involved treating crude hog lens homogenates with hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, DEAE-cellulose adsorption and elution, ammonium sulfate fractionation (53-84% of saturation), and gel filtration on a Bio-Gel A-1.5m column. Purifications ranging from 2080- to 4700-fold with activity yields from 28 to 100% were achieved. The hog lens LAP appeared homogeneous by native and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). Bio-Gel chromatography of the native enzyme and SDS-PAGE of dimethylsuberimidate-crosslinked LAP indicated a molecular weight of 326,000. SDS-PAGE of untreated LAP showed a subunit weight of 54,000, consistent with a hexameric enzyme structure. By immunodiffusion, LAP from hog lens and kidney were identical while hog lens and beef lens enzymes demonstrated only partial identity. Electrophoresis of the native enzymes showed a slightly lower mobility for the hog lens LAP than for beef LAP at pH 8.7.
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