Walker B, McCarthy N, Healy A, Ye T, McKervey M A
Division of Biochemistry, School of Biology and Biochemistry, Queen's University of Belfast, U.K.
Biochem J. 1993 Jul 15;293 ( Pt 2)(Pt 2):321-3. doi: 10.1042/bj2930321.
A series of novel synthetic dipeptides, containing a C-terminal glyoxal grouping (-COCHO), have been tested as inhibitors against typical members of the serine- and cysteine-proteinase families. For example, the sequences benzyloxycarbonyl (Cbz)-Pro-Phe-CHO (I) and Cbz-Phe-Ala-CHO (II), which fulfil the known primary and secondary specificity requirements of chymotrypsin and cathepsin B respectively, have been found to be potent reversible inhibitors of their respective target proteinase. Thus I was found to inhibit chymotrypsin with a Ki of approximately 0.8 microM, whereas II exhibits a Ki of approximately 80 nm against cathepsin B. These Ki values are some 10-fold and 3-fold lower than those reported for the corresponding peptide-aldehyde inhibitors of chymotrypsin and cathepsin B upon which the peptidyl-glyoxals were fashioned. Unexpectedly, the sequence Cbz-Pro-Ala-CHO, which was designed to inhibit elastase-like proteinases, exhibited no inhibitory activity towards porcine pancreatic elastase, even when used at concentrations as high as 200 microM.
一系列含有C端乙二醛基团(-COCHO)的新型合成二肽已作为丝氨酸蛋白酶家族和半胱氨酸蛋白酶家族典型成员的抑制剂进行了测试。例如,分别满足胰凝乳蛋白酶和组织蛋白酶B已知一级和二级特异性要求的序列苄氧羰基(Cbz)-Pro-Phe-CHO(I)和Cbz-Phe-Ala-CHO(II),已被发现是其各自靶蛋白酶的有效可逆抑制剂。因此,发现I抑制胰凝乳蛋白酶的Ki约为0.8微摩尔,而II对组织蛋白酶B的Ki约为80纳米。这些Ki值分别比基于其设计的相应胰凝乳蛋白酶和组织蛋白酶B的肽醛抑制剂报道的值低约10倍和3倍。出乎意料的是,设计用于抑制类弹性蛋白酶的序列Cbz-Pro-Ala-CHO,即使在高达200微摩尔的浓度下使用,对猪胰弹性蛋白酶也没有抑制活性。