A remarkable activity of human leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H) toward unnatural amino acids
摘要:
Leukotriene A(4) hydrolase (LTA4H--EC 3.3.2.6) is a bifunctional zinc metalloenzyme, which processes LTA(4) through an epoxide hydrolase activity and is also able to trim one amino acid at a time from N-terminal peptidic substrates via its aminopeptidase activity. In this report, we have utilized a library of 130 individual proteinogenic and unnatural amino acid fluorogenic substrates to determine the aminopeptidase specificity of this enzyme. We have found that the best proteinogenic amino acid recognized by LTA4H is arginine. However, we have also observed several unnatural amino acids, which were significantly better in terms of cleavage rate (k (cat)/K (m) values). Among them, the benzyl ester of aspartic acid exhibited a k (cat)/K (m) value that was more than two orders of magnitude higher (1.75 x 10(5) M-1 s(-1)) as compared to l-Arg (1.5 x 10(3) M-1 s(-1)). This information can be used for design of potent inhibitors of this enzyme, but may also suggest yet undiscovered functions or specificities of LTA4H.
Selective Substrates and Activity-Based Probes for Imaging of the Human Constitutive 20S Proteasome in Cells and Blood Samples
作者:Wioletta Rut、Marcin Poręba、Paulina Kasperkiewicz、Scott J. Snipas、Marcin Drąg
DOI:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00026
日期:2018.6.28
the HyCoSuL approach, we designed and synthesized novel and selective fluorogenic substrates for each of these three constitutive 20S proteasome activities and applied them to assess inhibition of proteasome subunits by MG-132 and a clinically used inhibitor bortezomib. Our results confirm the utility of designed substrates in biochemical assays. Furthermore, selective peptide sequences obtained in this
Design of Optical‐Imaging Probes by Screening of Diverse Substrate Libraries Directly in Disease‐Tissue Extracts
作者:Martina Tholen、Joshua J. Yim、Katarzyna Groborz、Euna Yoo、Brock A. Martin、Nynke S. Berg、Marcin Drag、Matthew Bogyo
DOI:10.1002/anie.202006719
日期:2020.10.19
an alternate, unbiased activity‐profiling approach in which whole tissue extracts are used to directly identify optimal peptide sequences for probe design. Screening of tumor extracts with a hybrid combinatorial substrate library (HyCoSuL) identified a combination of natural and non‐natural amino‐acidresidues that was used to generate highly efficient tumor‐specific probes. This new strategy simplifies
A remarkable activity of human leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H) toward unnatural amino acids
作者:Anna Byzia、Jesper Z. Haeggström、Guy S. Salvesen、Marcin Drag
DOI:10.1007/s00726-014-1694-2
日期:2014.5
Leukotriene A(4) hydrolase (LTA4H--EC 3.3.2.6) is a bifunctional zinc metalloenzyme, which processes LTA(4) through an epoxide hydrolase activity and is also able to trim one amino acid at a time from N-terminal peptidic substrates via its aminopeptidase activity. In this report, we have utilized a library of 130 individual proteinogenic and unnatural amino acid fluorogenic substrates to determine the aminopeptidase specificity of this enzyme. We have found that the best proteinogenic amino acid recognized by LTA4H is arginine. However, we have also observed several unnatural amino acids, which were significantly better in terms of cleavage rate (k (cat)/K (m) values). Among them, the benzyl ester of aspartic acid exhibited a k (cat)/K (m) value that was more than two orders of magnitude higher (1.75 x 10(5) M-1 s(-1)) as compared to l-Arg (1.5 x 10(3) M-1 s(-1)). This information can be used for design of potent inhibitors of this enzyme, but may also suggest yet undiscovered functions or specificities of LTA4H.
Peptidic Constructs with Amino Acid Surrogates
申请人:SHARMA SHUBH D.
公开号:US20110263818A1
公开(公告)日:2011-10-27
Peptidic constructs including at least one ring-constrained amino acid surrogate of formula I:
where R
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, R
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, and y are as defined in the specification, and a plurality of amino acid residues.