title: Probes for activity-based profiling of plant proteases.
abstract: Proteases are key players in plant development and immunity. When and where these proteases act during these processes is difficult to predict from proteomic or transcriptomic data because proteases are tightly regulated by post-translational mechanisms such as processing, phosphorylation and the presence of cofactors or inhibitors. Protease activities can be displayed using activity-based probes that react with the catalytic site of proteases in a mechanism-dependent manner. Plant proteomes have been labeled with probes for caspases, vacuolar processing enzymes, papain-like cysteine proteases, the proteasome, subtilases, prolyloligopeptidases, serine carboxypeptidases and matrix metalloproteases. Here, we review these protease probes with a focus on the specificity determinants that reside in the probe and the detection methods dictated by the reporter tag.
authors: Plant Chemetics lab, Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany. hoorn@mpipz.mpg.de
authors: Renier A L
authors: RA
authors: van der Hoorn
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Kaiser
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D015336:Molecular Probe Techniques; D015335:Molecular Probes / Q000737:chemistry; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000201:enzymology*; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex / Q000737:chemistry; D061988:Proteasome Inhibitors; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D015335:Molecular Probes; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011480:Protease Inhibitors; D061988:Proteasome Inhibitors; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex