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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-5-24
pubmed:abstractText
A panel of intramolecularly quenched fluorogenic substrates containing the conserved QVVA and LVG inhibitory sequences of cystatin inhibitors was used to describe the specificity of the major cysteine proteinase of Trypanosoma cruzi (cruzipain or cruzain). This approach was based on the observations that: (1) cruzipain is strongly inhibited by chicken cystatin and rat T-kininogen, two representative members of cystatin families 2 and 3; (2) the QVVA- and LVG-containing substrates are specifically hydrolysed by papain-like proteinases; and (3) the cystatin-like motifs are similar to the proteolytically sensitive sequences in cruzipain that separate the pro-region and/or the C-terminal extension from the catalytic domain. Specificity constants (kcat/Km) were determined and compared with those of mammalian cathepsins B and L from rat liver lysosomes. Cruzipain and the mammalian proteinases cleaved cystatin-derived substrates at the same site, but their specificities differed significantly. Increased specificity for cruzipain was obtained by replacing amino acids at critical positions on both sides of the cleavage sites, especially at position P2'. The specificity constants (k(cat)/Km) obtained for the two substrates with a prolyl residue at P2' (O-aminobenzoyl-QVVAGP-ethylenediamine 2-4-dinitrophenyl and O-aminobenzoyl-VVGGP-ethylenediamine 2-4-dinitrophenyl) were about 50 times higher for cruzipain than for rat cathepsin L and about 100 times higher than for cathepsin B. Diazomethylketone derivatives, based on the non-prime sequence of cystatin-derived substrates, inhibited cruzipain irreversibly, but their inactivation rate constants were considerably lower than those for mammalian cathepsins B and L, confirming the importance of P' residues for cruzipain specificity.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0264-6021
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
313 ( Pt 3)
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
951-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Investigation of the substrate specificity of cruzipain, the major cysteine proteinase of Trypanosoma cruzi, through the use of cystatin-derived substrates and inhibitors.
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