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1.
Expression of human placental ribonuclease inhibitor in Escherichia coli   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
Human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI) has been expressed in and isolated from Escherichia coli. Its apparent molecular weight, immunoreactivity and amino acid composition are virtually identical with those of native PRI. It inhibits the enzymatic activities of either angiogenin, a blood vessel inducing protein homologous to pancreatic RNase (RNase A), or RNase A in a stoichiometry of 1:1. Recombinant PRI binds to angiogenin and RNase A with Ki values of 2.9 x 10(-16) M and 6.8 x 10(-14) M, respectively, comparable to the affinities of native PRI for these enzymes. Thus, these results confirm that PRI inhibits angiogenin more effectively than RNase A.  相似文献   

2.
F S Lee  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1990,29(28):6633-6638
Human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI), a 50-kDa tight-binding inhibitor of angiogenin and pancreatic ribonuclease, consists predominantly of 7 internal repeats, each 57 residues long. Repeats 3 plus 4 (residues 144-257) or repeat 6 (residues 315-371) can be deleted to give mutant proteins, PRI delta 3-4 and PRI delta 6, respectively, that retain inhibitory activity [Lee, F. S., & Vallee, B. L. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 1879-1883]. We describe here the isolation and characterization of these two active mutant proteins. Both inhibit the enzymatic activities of either angiogenin or bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A (RNase A) with a 1:1 stoichiometry, and the mode of inhibition of RNase A by either is competitive. PRI delta 3-4 binds to angiogenin and RNase A with Ki values of 0.72 and 170 pM, respectively The corresponding values for PRI delta 6 are 22 and 43 pM, respectively. Since recombinant PRI to angiogenin and RNase A with Ki values of 0.29 and 68 fM, respectively, deletion of repeats 3 plus 4 weakens both interactions 2500-fold while deletion of repeat 6 weakens them 76,000- and 630-fold, respectively. Therefore, either the deletion of these repeats has altered the conformation of the angiogenin/RNase binding site in PRI or the deleted repeats contribute directly to the binding site, or both. In addition, the tighter binding to angiogenin versus RNase A seen with native PRI has been preserved in PRI delta 3-4 but has been almost completely abolished in PRI delta 6.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)  相似文献   

3.
The dissociation rate constant of the angiogenin-placental ribonuclease inhibitor complex was determined by measuring the release of free angiogenin from the complex in the presence of scavenger for free placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI). In 0.1 M NaCl, pH 6, 25 degrees C, this value is 1.3 X 10(-7) s-1 (t1/2 congruent to 60 days). The Ki value for the binding of PRI to angiogenin, calculated from the association and dissociation rate constants, is 7.1 X 10(-16) M. The corresponding values for the interaction of RNase A with PRI, determined by similar means, are both considerably higher: the dissociation rate constant is 1.5 X 10(-5) s-1 (t1/2 = 13 h), and the Ki value is 4.4 X 10(-14) M. Thus, PRI binds about 60 times more tightly to angiogenin than to RNase A. The effect of increasing sodium chloride concentration on the binding of PRI to RNase A was explored by Henderson plots. The Ki value increases to 39 pM in 0.5 M NaCl and to 950 pM in 1 M NaCl, suggesting the importance of ionic interactions. The mode of inhibition of RNase A by PRI was determined by examining the effect of a competitive inhibitor of RNase A, cytidine 2'-phosphate, on the association rate of PRI with RNase A. Increasing concentrations of cytidine 2'-phosphate decrease the association rate in a manner consistent with a competitive mode of inhibition.  相似文献   

4.
R Shapiro  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1991,30(8):2246-2255
The interactions of human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI) with bovine pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase) A and human angiogenin, a plasma protein that induces blood vessel formation, have been characterized in detail in earlier studies. However, studies on the interaction of PRI with the RNase(s) indigenous to placenta have not been performed previously, nor have any placental RNases been identified. In the present work, the major human placental RNase (PR) was purified to homogeneity by a five-step procedure and was obtained in a yield of 110 micrograms/kg of tissue. The placental content of angiogenin was also examined and was found to be at least 10-fold lower than that of PR. On the basis of its amino acid composition, amino-terminal sequence, and catalytic properties, PR appears to be identical with an RNase previously isolated from eosinophils (eosinophil-derived neurotoxin), liver, and urine. The apparent second-order rate constant of association for the PR.PRI complex, measured by examining the competition between PR and angiogenin for PRI, is 1.9 X 10(8) M-1 s-1. The rate constant for dissociation of the complex, determined by HPLC measurement of the rate of release of PR from its complex with PRI in the presence of a scavenger for free PRI, is 1.8 X 10(-7) s-1. Thus the Ki value for the PR.PRI complex is 9 X 10(-16) M, similar to that obtained with angiogenin, and 40-fold lower than that measured with RNase A. Complex formation causes a small red shift in the protein fluorescence emission spectrum, with no significant change in overall intensity. The fluorescence quantum yield of PR and the Stern-Volmer constant for fluorescence quenching by acrylamide are both high, possibly due to the presence of an unusual posttranslationally modified tryptophan residue at position 7 in the primary sequence.  相似文献   

5.
F S Lee  D S Auld  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1989,28(1):219-224
The binding of human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI) to angiogenin, a human protein that induces neovascularization, occurs with a 1:1 stoichiometry and is accompanied by a 50% increase in tryptophan fluorescence. In contrast, the binding of PRI to bovine pancreatic RNase A or to angiogenin oxidized at its single tryptophan residue results in a quenching of fluorescence. These observations suggest that there is a change in the local environment of Trp-89 of angiogenin. Quenching experiments with acrylamide are consistent with the view that Trp-89 is exposed in the native protein and becomes less accessible upon formation of the complex with PRI. Stopped-flow kinetic measurements monitoring the fluorescence enhancement indicate a two-step mechanism for the binding of PRI to angiogenin. The first step involves rapid formation of an enzyme-inhibitor complex, EI, followed by a slower isomerization of EI to a tight enzyme-inhibitor complex, EI*: (Formula: see text). In 0.1 M NaCl at pH 6 and 25 degrees C, the values of K1 and K2 are 0.53 microM and 97 s-1, respectively. The apparent second-order rate constant of association at protein concentrations much less than K1 is approximated by K2/K1 and equals 1.8 X 10(8) M-1 s-1. The corresponding value for the association of PRI with RNase A is only slightly higher, 3.4 X 10(8) M-1 s-1. The effects of pH and sodium chloride concentration on the association rate of PRI with angiogenin suggest the importance of ionizable groups and ionic interactions, respectively, in the association process.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)  相似文献   

6.
M D Bond  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1990,29(13):3341-3349
The region of human angiogenin containing residues 8-21 is highly conserved in angiogenins from four mammalian species but differs substantially from the corresponding region of the homologous protein ribonuclease A (RNase A). Regional mutagenesis has been employed to replace this segment of angiogenin with the corresponding RNase A sequence, and the activities of the resulting covalent angiogenin/RNase hybrid, designated ARH-III, have been examined. The ribonucleolytic activity of ARH-III is unchanged toward most substrates, including tRNA, naked 18S and 28S rRNA, CpA, CpG, UpA, and UpG. In contrast, the capacity of ARH-III to inhibit cell-free protein synthesis is decreased 20-30-fold compared to that of angiogenin. The angiogenic activity of ARH-III is also different; it is actually more potent. It induces a maximal response in the chick chorioallantoic membrane assay at 0.1 ng per egg, a 10-fold lower dose than required for angiogenin. In addition, binding of ARH-III to the placental ribonuclease inhibitor is increased by at least 1 order of magnitude (Ki less than or equal to 7 x 10(-17) M) compared to angiogenin. Thus, mutation of a highly conserved region of angiogenin markedly affects those properties likely involved in its biological function(s); it does not, however, alter ribonucleolytic activity toward most substrates.  相似文献   

7.
Several clones of human eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN) cDNA have been isolated from a lambda gt10 cDNA library prepared from mRNA derived from noninduced HL-60 cells. The amino acid (aa) sequence deduced from the coding sequence of the EDN cDNA is identical to the aa sequence of urinary nonsecretory RNase. Comparison of the aa and/or nucleotide (nt) sequences of EDN and other proteins possessing ribonucleolytic activity, namely bovine seminal RNase, human and rat pancreatic RNases, eosinophil cationic protein (ECP), and human angiogenin, shows extensive identity at half-cystine residues and at aa of active sites. Differences in aa sequences at the active sites are often the result of single nt changes in the codons. The data presented here support the concept of a RNase gene superfamily containing secretory and nonsecretory RNases, angiogenin, EDN and ECP.  相似文献   

8.
F S Lee  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1989,28(8):3556-3561
The importance of specific residues in angiogenin for binding to placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI) has been assessed by examining the interaction of angiogenin derivatives with PRI. PRI binds native angiogenin with a Ki value of 7.1 X 10(-16) M [Lee, F. S., Shapiro, R., & Vallee, B. L. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 225-230]. Substitution of a Gln for Lys-40 in angiogenin by site-specific mutagenesis decreases the association rate constant 3-fold and increases the dissociation rate constant 440-fold, resulting in a 1300-fold weaker Ki value. The half-life of the mutant.PRI complex is 3.4 h compared to approximately 60 days for the native angiogenin.PRI complex. The magnitude of the change in Ki value suggests that in the complex, Lys-40 forms a salt bridge or hydrogen bond with an anionic moiety in PRI. Carboxymethylation of His-13 or His-114 with bromoacetate increases the Ki value 15-fold, and oxidation of Trp-89 by means of dimethyl sulfoxide and hydrochloric acid increases it 2.4-fold, suggesting that these residues also form part of the contact region with PRI. The changes in Ki value reflect an increase in the dissociation rate constant. On the other hand, dinitrophenylation of either Lys-50 or Lys-60 with 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene does not significantly alter the Ki value, suggesting that these residues are not part of the contact region. These results indicate that PRI inhibition minimally involves the three residues critical for the activity of angiogenin--Lys-40, His-13, and His-114--and to a lesser extent its single tryptophan, Trp-89.  相似文献   

9.
Characterization of ribonucleolytic activity of angiogenin towards tRNA   总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2  
Yeast tRNA is a convenient substrate for the assay of the ribonucleolytic activity of human angiogenin. The optimal pH, [NaCl], and temperature for tRNA cleavage by angiogenin are approximately 6.8, 15-30 mM, and approximately 55 degrees C, respectively, as compared with approximately 8.0, 100-200 mM, and approximately 65 degrees C, respectively, for RNase A. Polyanions and metals both inhibit angiogenin and RNase A but to different extents.  相似文献   

10.
J W Harper  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1989,28(4):1875-1884
Human angiogenin is a blood vessel inducing protein whose primary structure displays 33% identity to that of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A (RNase A). Angiogenin catalyzes limited cleavage of 18S and 28S ribosomal RNA and is several orders of magnitude less potent than RNase A toward conventional substrates. A striking structural difference between angiogenin and RNase is the virtual absence of sequence similarity within the region of RNase that contains the Cys-65--Cys-72 disulfide bond. Indeed, angiogenin lacks this disulfide linkage. The present report describes the use of regional mutagenesis to generate a covalent angiogenin/RNase hybrid protein, ARH-I, where residues 58-70 of angiogenin have been replaced by the corresponding segment of RNase A (residues 59-73). The protein expressed in Escherichia coli readily folds at pH 8.5 to form the four expected disulfide bonds. The in vivo angiogenic potency of ARH-I is markedly diminished compared with that of angiogenin when examined using the chick chorioallantoic membrane assay. In contrast, its enzymatic activity is dramatically increased. With high molecular weight wheat germ RNA and tRNA, ARH-I is 660- and 300-fold more active than angiogenin, respectively, while with poly(uridylic acid), poly(cytidylic acid), cytidylyl(3'----5')adenosine (CpA), and uridylyl(3'----5')adenosine (UpA) activity is enhanced by about 200-fold. In addition, the specificity of ARH-I toward dinucleoside 3',5'-phosphates is qualitatively similar to RNase A; while angiogenin prefers cytidylyl(3'----5')guanosine (CpG) to UpA, both RNase and the hybrid prefer UpA to CpG. ARH-I also displays greater than 10-fold enhanced activity toward rRNA in intact ribosomes, while abolishing the capacity of the ribosome to support cell-free protein synthesis. The enhanced enzymatic properties of ARH-I parallel a 2-fold increase in chemical reactivity of active-site lysine and histidine residues based on rates of chemical modification. The data indicate that introduction of a region of RNase A containing the Cys-65--Cys-72 disulfide bond into angiogenin dramatically increases RNase-like enzymatic activity while reducing its angiogenicity.  相似文献   

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Angiogenin is a 14.4-kDa human plasma protein with 65% homology to RNase A that retains the key active site residues and three of the four RNase A disulfide bonds. We demonstrate that recombinant angiogenin functions as a cytotoxic tRNA-specific RNase in cell-free lysates and when injected into Xenopus oocytes. Inhibition of protein synthesis by angiogenin correlates with degradation of endogenous oocyte tRNA. Exogenous, radiolabeled tRNA is also hydrolyzed by angiogenin, whereas oocyte rRNA and mRNA are not detectably degraded by angiogenin. Protein synthesis was restored to angiogenin-injected oocytes by injecting the RNase inhibitor RNasin plus total Xenopus or calf liver tRNAs, thereby demonstrating that the tRNA degradation induced by angiogenin was the sole cause of cytotoxicity. A similar tRNA-reversible inhibition of protein synthesis was seen in rabbit reticulocyte lysates. Angiogenin therefore appears to be a specific cellular tRNase, whereas five homologues in the RNase A superfamily lack angiogenin's specificity for tRNA. One of these homologues purified from human eosinophils, eosinophil-derived neurotoxin, nonspecifically degrades oocyte RNA similar to RNase A and is also cytotoxic at very low concentrations.  相似文献   

12.
S M Rybak  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1988,27(7):2288-2294
The base cleavage specificity of angiogenin toward naturally occurring polyribonucleotides has been determined by using rapid RNA sequencing technology. With 5S RNAs from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli, angiogenin cleaves phosphodiester bonds exclusively at cytidylic or uridylic residues, preferably when the pyrimidines are followed by adenine. However, not all of the existent pyrimidine bonds in the 5S RNAs are cleaved, likely owing to elements of structure in the substrate. Despite the high degree of sequence homology between angiogenin and ribonuclease A (RNase A), which includes all three catalytic as well as substrate binding residues, the cleavage patterns with natural RNAs are unique to each enzyme. Angiogenin significantly hydrolyzes certain bonds that are not appreciably attacked by RNase A and vice versa. The different cleavage specificities of angiogenin and RNase A may account for the fact that the former is angiogenic while the latter is not.  相似文献   

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In this study, we report the inhibition of ribonuclease A (RNase A) by certain aminonucleosides. This is the first such instance of the use of this group of compounds to investigate the inhibitory activity of this protein. The compounds synthesized have been tested for their ability to inhibit the ribonucleolytic activity of RNase A by an agarose gel-based assay. A tRNA precipitation assay and inhibition kinetic studies with cytidine 2',3'-cyclic monophosphate as the substrate have also been conducted for two of the compounds. Results indicate substantial inhibitory activity with inhibition association constants in the micromolar range. The experimental studies have been substantiated by docking of the aminonucleoside ligands to RNase A using AutoDock. We find that the ligands preferentially bind to the active site of the protein molecule with a favorable free energy of binding. The study has been extended to a member of the ribonuclease superfamily, angiogenin, which is a potent inducer of blood vessel formation. We show that the aminonucleosides act as potent inhibitors of angiogenin induced angiogenesis.  相似文献   

14.
J W Harper  E A Fox  R Shapiro  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1990,29(31):7297-7302
The primary structure of the blood vessel inducing protein angiogenin is 35% identical with that of pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase) and contains counterparts for the critical RNase active-site residues His-12, Lys-41, and His-119. Although angiogenin is a ribonucleolytic enzyme, its activity toward conventional substrates is lower than that of pancreatic RNase by several orders of magnitude. Comparison of the amino acid sequences of RNase and angiogenin reveals several striking differences in the region flanking the active-site lysine, including a deletion and a transposition of aspartic acid and proline residues. In order to examine how these sequence changes alter the functional properties of angiogenin, an angiogenin/RNase hybrid protein (ARH-II), in which residues 38-41 of angiogenin (Pro-Cys-Lys-Asp) have been replaced by the corresponding segment of bovine pancreatic RNase (Asp-Arg-Cys-Lys-Pro), was prepared by regional mutagenesis. Compared to angiogenin, ARH-II has markedly diminished angiogenic activity on the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane but 5-75-fold greater enzymatic activity toward a variety of polynucleotide and dinucleotide substrates. In addition, the specificity of ARH-II toward dinucleotide substrates differs from that of angiogenin and is qualitatively similar to that of pancreatic RNase. Thus, non-active-site residues near Lys-40 in angiogenin appear to play a significant role in determining enzymatic specificity and reactivity as well as angiogenic potency. An additional angiogenin/RNase hybrid protein (ARH-IV), in which residues 59-71 of ARH-II have been replaced by the corresponding segment of pancreatic RNase, was also prepared.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)  相似文献   

15.
The complete amino acid sequence of bovine milk angiogenin   总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9  
The amino acid sequence of angiogenin isolated from bovine milk was deduced by gas-phase sequencing of the protein and its fragments. The protein contains 125 residues and has a calculated molecular mass of 14,577 Da. The sequence is highly homologous (65% identity) to the sequence of human angiogenin, most of the differences being the result of conservative replacements. Like human angiogenin, the bovine protein is also homologous to bovine pancreatic RNase A (34% identity) and the three major active site residues known to be involved in the catalytic process, His-14, Lys-41 and His-115, are conserved. When tested against conventional substrates for RNase A activity, bovine angiogenin displays the same selective ribonucleolytic activity as human angiogenin. The sequence of bovine angiogenin contains the cell recognition tripeptide Arg-Gly-Asp which is not present in the human protein.  相似文献   

16.
Sialic acid-binding lectin (SBL) isolated from Rana catesbeianaeggs is a basic protein which agglutinates a large variety oftumour cells and has an amino acid sequence homologous to thatof human angiogenin and pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase). AlthoughSBL and angiogenin lack the Cys-65-Cys-72 disulphide bond ofpancreatic RNase, the locations of the other three disulphidebonds are similar among the three molecules. SBL was found toexhibit RNase activity, as well as catalytic properties resemblingthose of bovine RNase A in some respects. For example, SBL hydrolysespoly(uridylic acid) and poly(cytidylic acid) as substrates,and prefers the former. RNase A and angiogenin are stronglyinhibited by human placental RNase inhibitor, whereas the RNaseactivity and tumour cell agglutination activity of SBL are notaffected by this inhibitor.  相似文献   

17.
A comparison of the sequences of three homologous ribonucleases (RNase A, angiogenin and bovine seminal RNase) identifies three surface loops that are highly variable between the three proteins. Two hypotheses were contrasted: (i) that this variation might be responsible for the different catalytic activities of the three proteins; and (ii) that this variation is simply an example of surface loops undergoing rapid neutral divergence in sequence. Three hybrids of angiogenin and bovine pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase) A were prepared where regions in these loops taken from angiogenin were inserted into RNase A. Two of the three hybrids had unremarkable catalytic properties. However, the RNase A mutant containing residues 63-74 of angiogenin had greatly diminished catalytic activity against uridylyl-(3'----5')-adenosine (UpA), and slightly increased catalytic activity as an inhibitor of translation in vitro. Both catalytic behaviors are characteristic of angiogenin. This is one of the first examples of an engineered external loop in a protein. Further, these results are complementary to those recently obtained from the complementary experiment, where residues 59-70 of RNase were inserted into angiogenin [Harper and Vallee (1989) Biochemistry, 28, 1875-1884]. Thus, the external loop in residues 63-74 of RNase A appears to behave, at least in part, as an interchangeable 'module' that influences substrate specificity in an enzyme in a way that is isolated from the influences of other regions in the protein.  相似文献   

18.
The crystal structures of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A (RNase A) in complex with 3',5'-ADP, 2',5'-ADP, 5'-ADP, U-2'-p and U-3'-p have been determined at high resolution. The structures reveal that each inhibitor binds differently in the RNase A active site by anchoring a phosphate group in subsite P1. The most potent inhibitor of all five, 5'-ADP (Ki = 1.2 microM), adopts a syn conformation (in contrast to 3',5'-ADP and 2',5'-ADP, which adopt an anti), and it is the beta- rather than the alpha-phosphate group that binds to P1. 3',5'-ADP binds with the 5'-phosphate group in P1 and the adenosine in the B2 pocket. Two different binding modes are observed in the two RNase A molecules of the asymmetric unit for 2',5'-ADP. This inhibitor binds with either the 3' or the 5' phosphate groups in subsite P1, and in each case, the adenosine binds in two different positions within the B2 subsite. The two uridilyl inhibitors bind similarly with the uridine moiety in the B1 subsite but the placement of a different phosphate group in P1 (2' versus 3') has significant implications on their potency against RNase A. Comparative structural analysis of the RNase A, eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN), eosinophil cationic protein (ECP), and human angiogenin (Ang) complexes with these and other phosphonucleotide inhibitors provides a wealth of information for structure-based design of inhibitors specific for each RNase. These inhibitors could be developed to therapeutic agents that could control the biological activities of EDN, ECP, and ANG, which play key roles in human pathologies.  相似文献   

19.
M D Bond  B L Vallee 《Biochemistry》1988,27(17):6282-6287
Angiogenin, which induces the formation of new blood vessels, was isolated previously from two human sources--HT-29 tumor conditioned media and normal plasma. By use of a newly developed binding assay, a similar protein has now been purified from bovine plasma at levels of 30-80 micrograms/L. This protein has the structural, enzymatic, and biological characteristics expected for an angiogenin molecule. Its amino acid composition is similar to that of the human protein, and 22 of 31 residues in the amino-terminal sequences are identical, including a block of 11 consecutive residues. Like human angiogenin, the bovine protein binds placental ribonuclease inhibitor, is inactive toward conventional RNase A substrates, and displays selective ribonucleolytic activity toward some rRNAs. In addition, the bovine protein induces angiogenesis in vivo in the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane assay at levels as low as 44 fmol per egg. Thus, angiogenin is present in bovine sera at levels similar to those observed in man, and its enzymatic and biological activities are identical with those of the human protein.  相似文献   

20.
The RNase gene superfamily combines functionally divergent proteins which share statistically significant sequence similarity. Known members assigned to this family include secretory and nonsecretory RNases; angiogenin; eosinophil cationic protein; eosinophil-derived neurotoxin; sialic-acid binding lectin and anti-tumor protein P-30. We report the cDNA cloning of the chicken RNase Super Family Related (RSFR) gene that is specifically overexpressed in normal bone marrow cells and bone marrow-derived AMV transformed monoblasts. It codes for a 139 amino acid protein with a putative signal peptide and remarkable conservation of active-site residues, other residues known to be important for substrate binding and catalytic activity and half-cystine residues common for all RNase family members. Phylogenetic tree analysis shows that RSFR defines a new group of genes within the family. We also conclude that an amino acid sequence block CKXXNTF(X) 11C is a "shortest RNase superfamily signature" which is both necessary and sufficient to identify all previously recognized family members as well as chicken RSFR.  相似文献   

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