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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-30
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
A novel serine protease was found in human prostate by degenerate oligonucleotide PCR amplification and cloned. The zymogen form of this enzyme, named prostinogen, is composed of 240 amino acid residues with an amino-terminal propiece of 5 residues and a 235-residue mature enzyme. The transcript has a signal peptide of 15 amino acid residues. The mature enzyme has 41% sequence identity with prostate specific antigen (PSA). Prostinogen was expressed in Escherichia coli and refolded from inclusion bodies. The zymogen, with a molecular mass of 28 kDa, was readily activated by agarose-immobilized trypsin to generate prostin, a serine protease, which cleaves the chromogenic substrate (N-benzoyl-L-Ile-L-Glu-L-Gly-L-Arg-p-nitroaniline hydrochloride) (S-2222). Recombinant prostin readily activates the precursor of PSA (pro-PSA) by cleavage of the amino terminal Arg(7)-Ile(8) peptide bond. These results indicate that prostin may be a physiological activator of pro-PSA following its own proteolytic activation, as part of a cascade system involving a series of serine protease precursor proteins in the prostate.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0006-2960
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1679-87
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Amides, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Chromogenic Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Enzyme Precursors, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Kallikreins, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Oligonucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Organ Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Prostate-Specific Antigen, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Protein Folding, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Sepharose, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:11327827-Trypsin
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Activation of prostate-specific antigen precursor (pro-PSA) by prostin, a novel human prostatic serine protease identified by degenerate PCR.
pubmed:affiliation
Departments of Biochemistry and Urology, University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle, WA 98195-7350, USA. tomt@u.washington.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't