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Title: A novel substrate-binding pocket interaction restricts the specificity of the human NK cell-specific serine protease, Met-ase-1.
Austin Authors: Smyth, Mark J;O'Connor, M D;Trapani, Joseph A;Kershaw, M H;Brinkworth, R I
Affiliation: Cellular Cytotoxicity Laboratory, Austin Research Institute, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Issue Date: 1-Jun-1996
Publication information: Journal of Immunology (baltimore, Md. : 1950); 156(11): 4174-81
Abstract: Human Met-ase-1 is a NK cell-specific member of a family of serine proteases (granzymes) that participate in target cell death inflicted by cytotoxic lymphocytes. This granzyme is predicted to cleave to the carboxyl side of long narrow hydrophobic amino acids (such as methionine), but not large, bulky hydrophobic amino acids (such as phenylalanine). To study the key structural features that confer this unusual serine protease specificity, active recombinant human Met-ase-1 was expressed in COS-7 cells. Protease assays of transfected COS-7 cell lysates provided evidence that an activation prohexapeptide normally regulates processing of this granzyme in NK cells. Recombinant human Met-ase-1 cleaved thiobenzylester substrates specifically after methionine, norleucine, or leucine residues in the primary substrate site (P1). Two key residues of human Met-ase-1, Lys179 Met (approximately chymotrypsin CHA192) and Ser201Gly (approximately CHA216), were mutated based upon a model structure derived from the crystal structure of chymotrypsin A. These mutants had reduced activity for substrate containing methionine at P1, but acquired chymase activity for phenylalanine at P1. Lys179 Met and Ser201Gly in the substrate-binding pocket of human Met-ase-1 restrict the preference of this granzyme for long narrow hydrophobic amino acids in the P1. A potential hydrogen-bonding interaction between these two residues on opposing sides of the substrate-binding pocket represents a novel molecular mechanism by which lymphocyte serine proteases might provide greater substrate specificity.
Gov't Doc #: 8666785
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/13430
Journal: Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8666785
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Base Sequence
Binding Sites
Cell Line
Cercopithecus aethiops
Cloning, Molecular
DNA Primers.genetics
Genetic Vectors
Humans
Killer Cells, Natural.enzymology
Models, Molecular
Molecular Sequence Data
Protein Conformation
Recombinant Proteins.chemistry.genetics.metabolism
Serine Endopeptidases.chemistry.genetics.metabolism
Substrate Specificity
Transfection
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