Matsuo Alisson L, Carmona Adriana K, Silva Luiz S, Cunha Carlos E L, Nakayasu Ernesto S, Almeida Igor C, Juliano Maria A, Puccia Rosana
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Cell Biology Division, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP 04023-062, Brazil.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Apr 20;355(4):1000-5. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.02.070. Epub 2007 Feb 23.
The inhibitory capacity of C-Npys (S-[3-nitro-2-pyridinesulfenyl]) derivatives over thiol-containing serine proteases has never been tested. In the present work we used an extracellular serine-thiol proteinase activity from the fungal pathogen Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (PbST) to describe a potent inhibitory capacity of Bzl-C(Npys)KRLTL-NH(2) and Bzl-MKRLTLC(Npys)-NH(2). The assays were performed with PbST enriched upon affinity chromatography in a p-aminobenzamidine (pABA)-Sepharose column. Although PbST can cleave the fluorescence resonance energy transfer peptide Abz-MKRLTL-EDDnp between L-T, the C(Npys) derivatives were not substrates nor were they toxic in a cell detachment assay, allowing therapeutic use. The best inhibitor was Bzl-C(Npys)KRLTL-NH(2) (K(i)=16nM), suggesting that the peptide sequence promoted a favorable interaction, especially when C(Npys) was placed at a further position from the L-T bond, at the N-terminus. Inhibition was completely reverted with dithioerythritol, indicating that it was due to the reactivity of the C(Npys) moiety with a free SH- group.
C-Npys(S-[3-硝基-2-吡啶基亚磺酰基])衍生物对含硫醇的丝氨酸蛋白酶的抑制能力从未被测试过。在本研究中,我们利用巴西副球孢子菌(PbST)的一种细胞外丝氨酸-硫醇蛋白酶活性来描述Bzl-C(Npys)KRLTL-NH(2)和Bzl-MKRLTLC(Npys)-NH(2)的强大抑制能力。实验是用在对氨基苯甲脒(pABA)-琼脂糖柱上经亲和层析富集的PbST进行的。尽管PbST可以在L-T之间切割荧光共振能量转移肽Abz-MKRLTL-EDDnp,但C(Npys)衍生物既不是底物,在细胞脱离实验中也没有毒性,从而允许用于治疗。最佳抑制剂是Bzl-C(Npys)KRLTL-NH(2)(K(i)=16nM),这表明该肽序列促进了一种有利的相互作用,特别是当C(Npys)位于离L-T键更远的N端位置时。用二硫苏糖醇可完全逆转抑制作用,表明这是由于C(Npys)部分与游离SH基团的反应性所致。