scholarly journals Thermodynamics of single peptide bond cleavage in bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI)

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 924-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Buczek
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riley B. Peacock ◽  
Taylor McGrann ◽  
Marco Tonelli ◽  
Elizabeth A. Komives

AbstractSerine proteases catalyze a multi-step covalent catalytic mechanism of peptide bond cleavage. It has long been assumed that serine proteases including thrombin carry-out catalysis without significant conformational rearrangement of their stable two-β-barrel structure. We present nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) experiments on the thrombin-thrombomodulin (TM) complex. Thrombin promotes procoagulative fibrinogen cleavage when fibrinogen engages both the anion binding exosite 1 (ABE1) and the active site. It is thought that TM promotes cleavage of protein C by engaging ABE1 in a similar manner as fibrinogen. Thus, the thrombin-TM complex may represent the catalytically active, ABE1-engaged thrombin. Compared to apo- and active site inhibited-thrombin, we show that thrombin-TM has reduced μs-ms dynamics in the substrate binding (S1) pocket consistent with its known acceleration of protein C binding. Thrombin-TM has increased μs-ms dynamics in a β-strand connecting the TM binding site to the catalytic aspartate. Finally, thrombin-TM had doublet peaks indicative of dynamics that are slow on the NMR timescale in residues along the interface between the two β-barrels. Such dynamics may be responsible for facilitating the N-terminal product release and water molecule entry that are required for hydrolysis of the acyl-enzyme intermediate.


1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Lindhout ◽  
C. M. Jackson

In order to understand the function of activated factor V in the prothrombinase complex, we isolated the activation products obtained by action of thrombin and RVV-V on factor V and studied their functional properties. Factor V isolated from plasma by means of ion-exchange chromatography, a Ca-oxalate adsorption step and gelfiltration was homogenous in SDS-gelelectrophoresis (apparent MW 360,000, with and without reduction). Increase in factor V activity upon action by RVV-V is correlated with a single peptide bond cleavage, resulting in a 270,000 dalton and a 80,000 dalton component. Additional proteolysis of factor Va(RVV/V)’ by thrombin results in a further cleavage of the high MW component into peptides with MW's of 72,000, 94,000 and about 150,000 without a furth~r increase in factor V activity. Whereas none of the isolated peptides reveal factor Va activity, activity would be generated by a recombination in the presence of Ca2+ of the 94,000 MW or 270,000 MW component with the 80,000 component. Action of thrombin alone on factor V results in peptides of MW 72,000, 80,000, 94,000 and a peptide very rich in carbohydrate with an apparent MW of 150,000.


2002 ◽  
Vol 277 (52) ◽  
pp. 51043-51048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Hagihara ◽  
Kentaro Shiraki ◽  
Tsutomu Nakamura ◽  
Koichi Uegaki ◽  
Masahiro Takagi ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Tulla-Puche ◽  
Irina V. Getun ◽  
Yvonne M. Angell ◽  
Jordi Alsina ◽  
Fernando Albericio ◽  
...  

Biochemistry ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 3383-3388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Ilyina ◽  
Vikram Roongta ◽  
Hong Pan ◽  
Clare Woodward ◽  
Kevin H. Mayo

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