title: Selectivity of propeptide-enzyme interaction in cathepsin L-like cysteine proteases.
abstract: Cathepsin L-like endopeptidases of the papain family are synthesized as proenzymes. N-terminal proregions are essential for folding and latency of the enzyme unit. While selectivity has been reported for the inhibitory function of papain-family propeptides, there is no systematic investigation of the selectivity of their chaperone-like function to date. The chaperone-like cross-reactivity between the cathepsins S, K, and L were thoroughly quantified in trans-experiments, i.e., with isolated propeptides and mature enzymes, and compared to the inhibitory cross-reactivity. The three endopeptidases have been chosen due to only minimal evolutionary distance and nearly identical X-ray structures of their zymogenes. The intramolecular chaperone function of the proregion was found to be more selective than the inhibitory activity and significant differences were found between the selectivity profiles, underlining the assumption that the inhibitory and the chaperone-like propeptide functions are autonomous. Considering the data published on the intramolecular chaperone-like propeptide function within other protease classes as well, our data suggest that intrinsically structured propeptides are more selective than intrinsically unstructured propeptides, i.e., those adopting tertiary structure elements only in complex with their maternal enzyme.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Biochemie I, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Nonnenplan 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany. ksch@mti.uni-jena.de
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schilling
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Körner
authors.forename: Saskia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sehmisch
authors.forename: Annett
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kreusch
authors.forename: Ramona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kleint
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Benedix
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schlabrakowski
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wiederanders
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D056657:Cathepsin K; D056668:Cathepsin L; D002403:Cathepsins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004792:Enzyme Precursors; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D017510:Protein Folding; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D017385:Sequence Homology; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D004792:Enzyme Precursors; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D002403:Cathepsins; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D056668:Cathepsin L; C028217:cathepsin S; D056657:Cathepsin K