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. 1995 Feb 15;306(Pt 1):63–69. doi: 10.1042/bj3060063

Determinants of the unusual cleavage specificity of lysyl-bradykinin-releasing kallikreins.

J R Chagas 1, F C Portaro 1, I Y Hirata 1, P C Almeida 1, M A Juliano 1, L Juliano 1, E S Prado 1
PMCID: PMC1136482  PMID: 7864830

Abstract

Kinetic data for the hydrolysis by human tissue kallikrein of fluorogenic peptides with o-aminobenzoyl-Phe-Arg (Abz-FR) as the acyl group and different leaving groups demonstrate that interactions with the S'1, S'2 and S'3 subsites are important for cleavage efficiency. In addition, studies on the hydrolysis of fluorogenic peptides with the human kininogen sequence spanning the scissile Met-Lys bond [Abz-M-I-S-L-M-K-R-P-N-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)ethylenediamine] and analogues with different residues at positions P'1, P'2 and P'3 showed that (a) the presence of a proline residue at P'3 and the interactions with the tissue kallikrein-binding sites S2 to S'2 are determinants of Met-Lys bond cleavage and (b) residues P3, P4 and/or P5 arc important for cleavage efficiency. The substitution of phenylalanine for methionine or arginine in substrates with scissile Met-Lys or Arg-Xaa bonds demonstrated that lysyl-bradykinin-releasing tissue kallikreins also have a primary specificity for phenylalanine. The replacement of arginine by phenylalanine in (D)P-F-R-p-nitroanilide (pNA) produced an efficient and specific chromogenic substrate, (D)P-F-F-pNA, for the lysyl-bradykinin-releasing tissue kallikreins as it is resistant to plasma kallikrein and other arginine hydrolases.

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