Identification of a novel calpain inhibitor using phage display |
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Authors: | Guttmann Rodney P Day George A Wang Xiaohong Bottiggi Kara A |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA. rodneyg@uky.edu |
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Abstract: | Calpains are calcium- and thiol-dependent proteases that cleave a variety of intracellular substrates. Overactivation of the calpains has been implicated in a number of diseases and conditions such as ischemic stroke indicating a need for the development of calpain inhibitors. A major problem with current calpain inhibitors has been specific targeting to calpain. To identify highly specific calpain interacting peptides, we developed a peptide-phage library screening method based on the calcium-dependent conformation change associated with calpain activation. A phage-peptide library representing greater than 2 billion expressed 12-mers was incubated with calpain I in the presence of calcium. The calcium-dependent bound phage was then eluted by addition of EGTA. After four rounds of selection we found a conserved 5-mer sequence represented by LSEAL. Synthetic LSEAL inhibited tau-calpain interaction and in vitro proteolysis of tau- and alpha-synuclein by calpains. Deletion of the portion of the tau protein containing a homologous sequence to LSEAL resulted in decreased calpain-mediated tau degradation. These data suggest that these peptides may represent novel calpastatin mimetics. |
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Keywords: | Calcium Calpain Phage-display Peptide |
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