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Protease Ti, a new ATP-dependent protease in Escherichia coli, degrades proteins and ATP in a linked process, but these two hydrolytic functions are catalyzed by distinct components of the enzyme. To clarify the enzyme's specificity and the role of ATP, a variety of fluorogenic peptides were tested as possible substrates for protease Ti or its two components. Protease Ti rapidly hydrolyzed N-succinyl(Suc)-Leu-Tyr-amidomethylcoumarin (AMC) (Km = 1.3 mM) which is not degraded by protease La, the other ATP-dependent protease in E. coli. Protease Ti also hydrolyzed, but slowly, Suc-Ala-Ala-Phe-AMC and Suc-Leu-Leu-Val-Tyr-AMC. However, it showed little or no activity against basic or other hydrophobic peptides, including ones degraded rapidly by protease La. Component P, which contains the serine-active site, by itself rapidly degrades the same peptides as the intact enzyme. Addition of component A, which contains the ATP-hydrolyzing site and is necessary for protein degradation, had little or no effect on peptide hydrolysis. N-Ethylmaleimide, which inactivates the ATPase, did not inhibit peptide hydrolysis. In addition, this peptide did not stimulate the ATPase activity of component A (unlike protein substrates). Thus, although the serine-active site on component P is unable to degrade proteins, it is fully functional against small peptides in the absence of ATP. At high concentrations, Suc-Leu-Tyr-AMC caused a complete inhibition of casein breakdown, and diisopropylfluorophosphate blocked similarly the hydrolysis of both protein and peptide substrates. Thus, both substrates seem to be hydrolyzed at the same active site on component P, and ATP hydrolysis by component A either unmasks or enlarges this proteolytic site such that large proteins can gain access to it.
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PMID:Protease Ti from Escherichia coli requires ATP hydrolysis for protein breakdown but not for hydrolysis of small peptides. 264 53

The energy requirement for protein breakdown in Escherichia coli appears to be due to protease La, the lon gene product, which hydrolyzes proteins and ATP in a coupled process. This novel enzyme was investigated with small peptides, identified as substrates in the preceding manuscript. Although the degradation of proteins to acid-soluble material requires hydrolysis of a nucleoside triphosphate, cleavage of small fluorogenic substrates, such as glutaryl-Ala-Ala-Phe-methoxynaphthylamine, was found to require only binding of nucleotides to the enzyme. Nonhydrolyzable analogs of ATP, slowly hydrolyzed nucleotides, and even inorganic triphosphate and pyrophosphate stimulate the breakdown of these peptides but not of large proteins such as casein or serum albumin. In addition, vanadate, an inhibitor of the enzyme's ATPase activity, prevents protein degradation, but vanadate does not inhibit and can even stimulate peptide hydrolysis. Degradation of natural oligopeptides or of small polypeptides (less than 10,000 Da) also does not require hydrolysis of the nucleotide. Furthermore, although protein substrates promote ATP cleavage, the fluorogenic peptides inhibit this process. Also, no evidence was obtained for phosphorylation of the protease or of the substrate during ATP hydrolysis. These findings suggest that protein breakdown involves a cyclical series of reactions: 1) ATP binds to the protease and activates it allosterically, thus allowing peptide bond cleavage; 2) the hydrolysis of ATP must occur subsequently and should prevent further peptide bond cleavage until additional nucleoside triphosphates are bound; 3) with proteins as substrates, this reaction cycle probably occurs repeatedly until small peptides are generated.
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PMID:The role of ATP hydrolysis in the breakdown of proteins and peptides by protease La from Escherichia coli. 293 32

Protease La is an ATP-dependent protease that catalyzes the rapid degradation of abnormal proteins and certain normal polypeptides in Escherichia coli. In order to learn more about its specificity and the role of ATP, we tested whether small fluorogenic peptides might serve as substrates. In the presence of ATP and Mg2+, protease La hydrolyzes two oligopeptides that are also substrates for chymotrypsin, glutaryl-Ala-Ala-Phe-methoxynaphthylamine (MNA) and succinyl-Phe-Leu-Phe-MNA. Methylation or removal of the acidic blocking group prevented hydrolysis. Closely related peptides (glutaryl-Gly-Gly-Phe-MNA and glutaryl-Ala-Ala-Ala-MNA) are cleaved only slightly, and substrates of trypsin-like proteases are not hydrolyzed. Furthermore, several peptide chloromethyl ketone derivatives that inhibit chymotrypsin and cathepsin G (especially benzyloxycarbonyl-Gly-Leu-Phe-chloro-methyl ketone), inhibited protease La. Thus its active site prefers peptides containing large hydrophobic residues, and amino acids beyond the cleavage site influence rates of hydrolysis. Peptide hydrolysis resembles protein breakdown by protease La in many respects: 1) ADP inhibits this process rapidly, 2) DNA stimulates it, 3) heparin, diisopropyl fluorophosphate, and benzoyl-Arg-Gly-Phe-Phe-Leu-MNA inhibit hydrolysis, 4) the reaction is maximal at pH 9.0-9.5, 5) the protein purified from lon- E. coli or Salmonella typhymurium showed no activity against the peptide, and that from lonR9 inhibited peptide hydrolysis by the wild-type enzyme. With partially purified enzyme, peptide hydrolysis was completely dependent on ATP. The pure protease hydrolyzed the peptide slowly when only Mg2+, Ca2+, or Mn2+ were present, and ATP enhanced this activity 6-15-fold (Km = 3 microM). Since these peptides cannot undergo phosphorylation, adenylylation, modification of amino groups, or denaturation, these mechanisms cannot account for the stimulation by ATP. Most likely, ATP and Mg2+ affect the conformation of the enzyme, rather than that of the substrate.
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PMID:Protease La, the lon gene product, cleaves specific fluorogenic peptides in an ATP-dependent reaction. 390 67