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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-12
pubmed:abstractText
Ecotin, a serine protease inhibitor found in the periplasm of Escherichia coli, is unique in its ability and mechanism of inhibiting serine proteases of a broad range of substrate specificity. However, although the catalytic domain of human urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) has 40% identity to bovine trypsin and the substrate specificities of these two proteases are virtually identical, ecotin inhibits uPA almost 10,000-fold less efficiently than trypsin. Ecotin was expressed on the surface of filamentous bacteriophage (ecotin phage) to allow the isolation of more potent inhibitors of uPA from a library of ecotin variants. The 142-amino acid inhibitor was fused to the C-terminal domain of the M13 minor coat protein, pIII, through a Gly-Gly-Gly linker and assembled into phage particles. The ecotin phage were shown to react with anti-ecotin antibodies, revealing a stoichiometry of approximately one ecotin per bacteriophage. The ecotin displayed on the surface of phage inhibited trypsin with an equilibrium dissociation constant of 6.7 nM, in close approximation to that of free ecotin, indicating that phage-associated ecotin is correctly folded and functionally active. Reactive-site amino acids 84 and 85 of ecotin were then randomized and a library of 400 unique ecotin phage was created. Three hundred thousand members of the library were screened with immobilized uPA and subjected to three rounds of binding and in vitro selection. DNA sequence analysis of the selected ecotin phage showed that ecotin M84R/M85R predominated while ecotin M84R, M84K, and M84R/M85K were present at a lower frequency. The four ecotin variants were overexpressed and purified and their affinities toward uPA were determined. Each of the selected ecotin variants exhibited increased affinity for uPA when compared to wild-type ecotin with ecotin M84R/M85R showing a 2800-fold increase in binding affinity.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bacterial Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Capsid Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Eco protein, E coli, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzymes, Immobilized, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Escherichia coli Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Periplasmic Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Fusion Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Trypsin Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Viral Fusion Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Viral Proteins
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
270
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
12250-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Capsid Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Coliphages, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Enzymes, Immobilized, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Escherichia coli Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Periplasmic Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Protein Folding, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Selection, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Trypsin Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Viral Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7744876-Viral Proteins
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolation of a high affinity inhibitor of urokinase-type plasminogen activator by phage display of ecotin.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0446, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.