Proteolytic cleavage of the puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase generates a substrate binding domain |
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Authors: | Ma Zhangliang Daquin Alex Yao Jia Rodgers David Thompson Michael W Hersh Louis B |
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Affiliation: | Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA. |
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Abstract: | The puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase was found to be resistant to proteolysis by trypsin, chymotrypsin, and protease V8 but was cleaved into an N-terminal 60-kDa fragment and a C-terminal 33-kDa fragment by proteinase K. The two proteinase K fragments remain associated and retained enzymatic activity. Attempts to express the 60-kDa N-terminal fragment in Escherichia coli produced inclusion bodies. A hexa-histidine fusion protein of the 60-kDa N-terminal fragment was solubilized from inclusion bodies with urea and refolded by removal of the urea through dialysis. The refolded protein was devoid of aminopeptidase activity as assayed with arginine-beta-naphthylamide. However, the refolded protein bound the substrate dynorphin A(1-9) with a stoichiometry of 0.5 mol/mol and a K(0.5) value of 50 microM. Dynorphin A(1-9) binding was competitively inhibited by the substrate dynorphin B(1-9), but not by des-Tyr(1)-leucine-enkephalin, a poor substrate for the enzyme. |
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Keywords: | Peptidase Domain structure Protein folding Substrate binding |
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