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Inhibition of human beta-tryptase by Bowman-Birk inhibitor derived peptides: creation of a new tri-functional inhibitor.

Abstract：

:Bowman-Birk inhibitor proteins (BBIs), which are potent inhibitors of chymotrypsin-like proteases, do not inhibit human beta-tryptase despite this protein having a chymotrypsin-like fold. We have reported previously that, in contrast, BBI-derived peptides (whose sequences incorporate the solvent exposed reactive site loop motif) are able to inhibit human beta-tryptase. This is due to their small size, which allows them to access the restricted active site(s) of tryptase, which has an unusual tetrameric arrangement with four active sites flanking a central pore. In this paper, we have examined the possibility of creating additional interactions within this pore by adding extensions to the BBI-peptide motif. We have taken the core disulfide-bridged sequence SCTKSIPPQCY and examined a series of extensions, at both the C- and N-termini, that bear a second positively charged Lys residue at their end. The aim was to construct inhibitors that could make additional interactions in tryptase by spanning the gap between adjacent active sites in the enzyme, producing a double-headed inhibitor; a positively charged group was used as the dominant specificity of this enzyme is for a positively charged P1 residue. Both N- and C-terminal extensions are found to produce inhibitors of much increased potency, with a strong dependence of potency on chain length. Moreover, it was found that the C- and N-terminal extensions were able to synergise, with their combination on the same peptide producing an even better inhibitor with a potency 10(4)-fold greater than the original sequence. We suggest that the C- and N-terminal extensions are picking up interactions with separate additional sites on the tryptase, making the doubly extended BBI peptide a tri-functional tryptase inhibitor.

journal_name

Bioorg Med Chem

journal_title

Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry

authors

Scarpi D,McBride JD,Leatherbarrow RJ

doi

10.1016/j.bmc.2004.09.015

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-12-01 00:00:00

pages

6045-52

issue

eissn

0968-0896

issn

1464-3391

pii

S0968-0896(04)00711-4

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Inhibition of human beta-tryptase by Bowman-Birk inhibitor derived peptides: creation of a new tri-functional inhibitor.