title: N-anthraniloyl-Ala-Ala-Phe-4-nitroanilide, a highly sensitive substrate for subtilisins.
abstract: A new substrate for subtilisins, anthraniloyl-Ala-Ala-Phe-4-nitroanilide, has been synthesized and characterized. The peptide is a fluorogenic substrate that is intramolecularly quenched without loss of its chromogenic properties and offers a possibility for double-assay kinetic analysis. The kinetic parameters determined for subtilisin Carlsberg are Km = 0.004 mM, kcat = 104 s-1, and those for subtilisin BPN' are Km = 0.020 mM, kcat = 49 s-1. The substrate is extremely sensitive for subtilisins; the specificity constants are 10-fold higher than the corresponding values for the widely used substrate, succinyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Phe-4-nitroanilide, and 200- to 1000-fold higher than the values obtained with succinyl-Ala-Ala-Phe-4-nitroanilide. The favorable effect of the anthraniloyl group as a P4 residue in the substrate sequence Ala-Ala-Phe-4-nitroanilide was assumed to be due to an ability to stiffen S4-P4 interactions. The mechanism proposed is hydrogen bond formation between the phenol group of tyrosine-104 and the amino group of the anthraniloyl moiety. In the spectrophotometric assay with the new substrate, the lower detection limit for subtilisin Carlsberg was 1 nM.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Stambolieva
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Yomtova
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002918:Chymotrypsin / Q000378:metabolism; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013381:Subtilisins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009842:Oligopeptides; C074077:N-anthraniloyl-alanyl-alanyl-phenylalanyl-4-nitroanilide; D013381:Subtilisins; D002918:Chymotrypsin