申请人:Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
公开号:US20030092629A1
公开(公告)日:2003-05-15
Methods for the production of purified, catalytically active, recombinant memapsin 2 have been developed-, The substrate and subsite specificity of the catalytically active enzyme have been determined by a method which determines the initial hydrolysis rate of the substrates by using MALDI-TOF/MS. Alternatively, the subsite specificity of memapsin can be determined by probing a library of inhibitors with memapsin 2 and subsequently detecting the bound memapsin 2 with an antibody raised to memapsin 2 and an alkaline phosphatase conjugated secondary antibody. The substrate and subsite specificity information was used to design substrate analogs of the natural memapsin 2 substrate that can inhibit the function of memapsin 2. The substrate analogs are based on peptide sequences, shown to be related to the natural peptide substrates for memapsin 2. The substrate analogs contain at least one analog of an amide bond which is not capable of being cleaved by memapsin 2. Processes for the synthesis of substrate analogues including isosteres at the sites of the critical amino acid residues were developed and the more than seventy substrate analogues were synthesized, among which MMI-005, MMI-012, MMI-017, MMI-018, MMI-025, MMI-026, MMI-037, MMI-039, MMI-040, MMI-066, MMI-070, and MMI-071 have inhibition constants in the range of 1.4-61.4×10
−9
M against recombinant pro-memapsin 2. These inhibitors are useful in diagnostics and for the treatment and/or prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
已开发出生产纯化、具有催化活性的重组memapsin 2的方法。通过一种方法确定了具有催化活性的酶的底物和亚位点特异性,该方法利用MALDI-TOF/MS测定了底物的初始水解速率。另外,memapsin的亚位点特异性可以通过使用memapsin 2探测抑制剂库,并随后使用对memapsin 2产生的抗体和碱性磷酸酶结合的二抗检测已结合的memapsin 2来确定。底物和亚位点特异性信息被用来设计模拟天然memapsin 2底物的底物类似物,可以抑制memapsin 2的功能。这些底物类似物基于肽序列,已证明与memapsin 2的天然肽底物相关。底物类似物包含至少一个酰胺键的类似物,该键无法被memapsin 2水解。开发了包括在关键氨基酸残基位点处的同位素的底物类似物合成过程,合成了七十多种底物类似物,其中MMI-005、MMI-012、MMI-017、MMI-018、MMI-025、MMI-026、MMI-037、MMI-039、MMI-040、MMI-066、MMI-070和MMI-071对重组前memapsin 2的抑制常数在1.4-61.4×10^-9M范围内。这些抑制剂在诊断和治疗和/或预防阿尔茨海默病中非常有用。