title: S1 pocket fingerprints of human and bacterial methionine aminopeptidases determined using fluorogenic libraries of substrates and phosphorus based inhibitors.
abstract: Methionyl aminopeptidases (MetAPs) are metallo-dependent proteases responsible for removing of N-terminal methionine residue of peptides and proteins during protein maturation and activation. In this report we use a comprehensive strategy to screen the substrate specificity of three methionyl aminopeptidases: Homo sapiens MetAP-1, Homo sapiens MetAP-2 and Escherichia coli MetAP-1. By utilizing a 65-membered fluorogenic substrate library consisting of natural and unnatural amino acids we established detailed substrate preferences of each enzyme in the S1 pocket. Our results show that this pocket is highly conserved for all investigated MetAPs, very stringent for methionine, and that several unnatural amino acids with methionine-like characteristics were also well hydrolyzed by MetAPs. The substrate-derived results were verified using several phosphonate and phosphinate-based inhibitors.
authors.affiliation: Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poreba
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gajda
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Picha
authors.forename: Jiri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiracek
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marschner
authors.forename: Christian D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Guy S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Salvesen
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drag
mesh_terms: D000626:Aminopeptidases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D063208:Methionyl Aminopeptidases; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000737:chemistry*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D010758:Phosphorus; D000626:Aminopeptidases; D063208:Methionyl Aminopeptidases; C106541:methionine aminopeptidase 2; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases