title: Cooperative exosite-dependent cleavage of synaptobrevin by tetanus toxin light chain.
abstract: The light chain (L chain) of tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) has been shown to have been endowed with zinc endopeptidase activity, selectively directed toward the Gln76-Phe77 bond of synaptobrevin, a vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) critically involved in neuroexocytosis. In previous reports, truncations at the NH2 and COOH terminus of synaptobrevin have shown that the sequence 39-88 of synaptobrevin is the minimum substrate of TeNT, suggesting either the requirement of a well defined three-dimensional structure of synaptobrevin or a role in the mechanism of substrate hydrolysis for residues distal from the cleavage site. In this study, the addition of NH2- and COOH-terminal peptides of synaptobrevin, S 27-55 (S1) and S 82-93 (S2), to the synaptobrevin fragment S 56-81 allowed the cleavage of this latter peptide by TeNT to occur. This appears to result from an activation process mediated by the simultaneous binding of S1 and S2 with complementary sites present on TeNT as shown by surface plasmon resonance experiments and the determination of kinetic constants. All these results favor an exosite-controlled hydrolysis of synaptobrevin by TeNT, probably involving a conformational change of the toxin. This could account for the high degree of substrate specificity of TeNT and, probably, botulinum neurotoxins.
authors.affiliation: Département de Pharmacochimie Moléculaire et Structurale, U266 INSERM, URA D1500 CNRS, Université René Descartes, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cornille
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lenoir
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cussac
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Roques
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Fournie-Zaluski
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D050683:R-SNARE Proteins; D013744:Tetanus Toxin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D050683:R-SNARE Proteins; D013744:Tetanus Toxin; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases; C093556:zinc-endopeptidase, tetanus neurotoxin