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Query: EC:3.4.24.27 (thermolysin)
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The photochemical reaction of MgADP-vanadate with the active site of myosin has been used to place a serine at the binding site for the gamma-phosphate of ATP. Irradiation of the MgADP-vanadate myosin subfragment 1 transition state-like complex with UV light specifically photooxidizes the hydroxyl group of a serine residue to an aldehyde (Cremo, C. R., Grammer, J. C., and Yount, R. G. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 8415-8420). Reduction of photooxidized myosin with Na-B3H4 gave only 3H-labeled serine. Here, subsequent extensive proteolytic digestion of 3H-labeled myosin subfragment 1 with trypsin and thermolysin yielded two 3H-labeled peptides, both of which contained the sequence Gly-Glu-Ser-Gly-Ala-Gly-Lys-Thr, in which all the 3H was associated with the serine. This sequence is conserved in all myosin heavy chains sequenced to date and corresponds to residues 178-185 in the rabbit myosin heavy chain (Tong, S. W., and Elzinga, M. (1983) J. Biol. Chem. 21, 13100-13110). These results place Ser-180 at the gamma-phosphate-binding site for ATP and indicate that the glycine-rich loop around the serine provides essential elements of the phosphate-binding site for ATP in all myosin molecules. Such a role was previously suggested based on the common sequence Gly-X-X-X-X-Gly-Lys-Thr/Ser, found in myosin and many other nucleotide-binding enzymes (Walker, J. E., Saraste, M., Runswick, M. H., and Gay, N. J. (1982) EMBO J. 1, 945-951).
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PMID:Direct chemical evidence that serine 180 in the glycine-rich loop of myosin binds to ATP. 252 83

An extracellular Zn-endopeptidase was purified to homogeneity from the culture filtrates of Streptococcus faecalis (human oral strain 0G1-10) by a procedure that comprised concentration in an Amicon Hollow Fiber System, ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel permeation chromatography, hydrophobic interaction chromatography (batch operation on phenyl-sepharose Cl-4B), followed by fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) on a phenyl-Superose HR 5/5 column, and finally FPLC on a Superose 12 HR 10/30 column. The enzyme is a 31.5-kDa strongly hydrophobic protein with an isoelectric point of 4.6 and a broad pH optimum of 6 to 8. The substrate specificity of the enzyme is similar to that of the mammalian membrane endopeptidase-24.11 and Streptococcus thermophilus thermolysin (EC 3.4.24.4) in hydrolyzing preferentially the Phe24-Phe25 bond in insulin B-chain, followed by cleavage of the His5-Leu6 bond. The enzyme was especially active on Azocoll and gelatin; soluble and insoluble collagens were hydrolyzed at a lower rate. S. faecalis sex pheromone-related peptides and several mammalian bioactive peptides were cleaved at sites involving pronounced hydrophobicity. The enzyme did not hydrolyze small synthetic peptide derivatives (phenylazobenzyloxycarbonyl-L-Pro-L-Leu-Gly-L-Pro-D-Arg and 2-furylacryloyl-L-Leu-Gly-L-Ala) that are typically attacked by "true" bacterial collagenases. Chemical modification indicated the importance of histidyl, carboxyl, and tyrosyl groups in enzyme activity, suggesting that this enzyme may thus be classified as a metalloprotease II (EC 3.4.24.4). The enzyme is strongly inhibited by a 720-kDa factor present in rat inflammatory exudate. The pronounced ability of the enzyme to attack collagenous materials and certain bioactive peptides suggests its participation in inflammatory processes involving the presence of S. faecalis.
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PMID:Purification and substrate specificity of a strongly hydrophobic extracellular metalloendopeptidase ("gelatinase") from Streptococcus faecalis (strain 0G1-10). 253 44

The peptides H-Phe-Gly-Gly-Arg-Ile-Asp-Arg-Ile-NH2 (rANF8-15-NH2), Ac-Phe-Gly-Gly-Arg-Ile-Asp-Arg-Ile-NH2 (Ac-rANF8-15-NH2), and their corresponding retro-inverso-isomeric peptides H-D-Ile-D-Arg-D-Asp-D-Ile-D-Arg-Gly-Gly-D-Phe-NH2 (D-rANF15-8-NH2), Ac-D-Ile-D-Arg-D-Asp-D-Ile-D-Arg-Gly-Gly-D-Phe-NH2 (Ac-D-rANF15-8-NH2), were evaluated for their ability to compete for the binding of 125I-rANF5-28 to cultured spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) aortic smooth muscle cell membranes. Their stability toward hydrolysis by the neutral endopeptidase thermolysin was also studied. The octapeptides rANF8-15-NH2 and Ac-rANF8-15-NH2 bound with IC50's of 367 pM and 1900 pM, respectively, but were rapidly hydrolyzed by thermolysin. Retro-inverso-isomers were prepared to provide molecules with an improved enzymatic stability. The retro-inverso-isomers were completely stable to thermolysin but were virtually inactive in the binding assay (IC50 greater than 1 microM).
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PMID:Receptor binding affinity and thermolysin degradation of truncated and retro-inverso-isomeric ANF analogs. 254 Dec 91

The myelin basic protein (BP) of pig brain was cleaved into its constituent tryptic peptides and the amino acid composition of each was determined. Those tryptic peptides that had not been sequenced previously were cleaved with dipeptidyl peptidases and the resulting dipeptides were trimethylsilated, separated by gas chromatography, and identified by mass spectrometry. Carboxypeptidases B and Y were used to establish the COOH-terminal sequences of some of the tryptic peptides; one tryptic peptide (sequence 76-92) was cleaved with thermolysin and the thermolytic peptides were analyzed. From the results of the present study together with those reported previously, it has been possible to determine the complete amino acid sequence of the protein. The protein consists of 172 residues and has a theoretical molecular weight of 18,604. Its amino acid sequence is identical with that reported for the homologous bovine protein with the following exceptions: Ser replaces (bovine) Ala2; His-Gly is inserted between Arg9 and Ser10; Ala replaces Ser45; His and Gly replace Gly76 and His77, respectively; Pro replaces Ser131 and Ser135; Ala is inserted between Gly142 and His143; and Gln replaces His143.
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PMID:Amino acid sequence of porcine myelin basic protein. 257 56

A glutaredoxin was purified from rabbit bone marrow, and its amino acid sequence was determined by high performance tandem mass spectrometry. The sequences of peptides generated by digestion with trypsin alone or in combination with thermolysin were determined from their collision-induced dissociation (CID) mass spectra. Alignment of these sequences and additional sequence information were obtained from the collision-induced dissociation mass spectra of peptides obtained from digestion of the intact protein with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease and alpha-chymotrypsin. The resulting sequence of 106 amino acids is as follows: Ac-Ala-Gln-Glu-Phe-Val-Asn-Ser-Lys-Ile-Gln-Pro-Gly-Lys-Val-Val-Val-Phe- Ile-Lys-Pro-Thr-Cys-Pro-Tyr-Cys-Arg-Lys-Thr-Gln-Glu-Ile-Leu-Ser-Glu-Leu- Pro-Phe - Lys-Gln-Gly-Leu-Leu-Glu-Phe- Val-Asp-Ile-Thr-Ala-Thr-Ser-Asp-Met-Ser-Glu-Ile- Gln-Asp-Tyr-Leu-Gln-Gln-Leu-Thr-Gly-Ala-Arg- Thr-Val-Pro-Arg-Val-Phe-Leu-Gly-Lys-Asp-Cys-Ile- Gly-Gly-Cys-Ser-Asp-Leu-Ile-Ala-Met-Gln-Glu-Lys- Gly-Glu-Leu-Leu-Ala-Arg-Leu-Lys-Glu-Met-Gly- Ala-Leu-Arg-Gln. This glutaredoxin strongly resembles the corresponding calf and pig proteins (known as glutaredoxin and thioltransferase, respectively) with respect to its primary structure and enzymatic activity as a GSH:disulfide thioltransferase, an activity also found for the glutaredoxin from Escherichia coli. However, rabbit glutaredoxin was not active as a hydrogen donor for the reduction of ribonucleotides in the presence of the ribonucleotide reductases from rabbit bone marrow, Lactobacillus leichmannii, and Corynebacterium nephridii.
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PMID:Glutaredoxin from rabbit bone marrow. Purification, characterization, and amino acid sequence determined by tandem mass spectrometry. 268 77

The primary structure of the human high mobility group (HMG) protein HMG-Y has been established except for a few amino acids in the N-terminal and the C-terminal part of the protein. It was found that the sequence was identical to that of HMG-I except for a run of eleven amino acids. Like HMG-I the protein was N-terminally blocked and the palindromic sequence Pro-Arg-Gly-Arg-Pro occurred twice as in HMG-I. The binding of peptides derived from HMG-I (after thermolysin cleavage) to poly (dA-dT).poly(dA-dT) suggested that there are at least two different binding domains in the protein and that binding is not dependent upon an intact protein.
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PMID:The amino acid sequence of the chromosomal protein HMG-Y, its relation to HMG-I and possible domains for the preferential binding of the proteins to stretches of A-T base pairs. 292 35

Ca2+-Transporting ATPase of rabbit skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum contains several SH groups which are reactive with N-ethylmaleimide (MalNEt) at pH 7.0. The location of the one which is most reactive with MalNEt (SHN, Kawakita et al. J. Biochem. 87, 609 (1980)) was identified on the amino acid sequence of the ATPase. SHN was labeled by reacting sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes with [14C] MalNEt to a labeling density of 1 mol/mol ATPase. [14C]MalNEt-labeled membranes were digested with thermolysin and 14C-labeled SHN peptides were fractionated by Sephadex LH-20 chromatography to give two major peaks of radioactivity. [14C]-MalNEt-labeled peptides were further purified to homogeneity by C18-reversed phase HPLC. Two radioactive peptides containing modified cysteine (Cys), Leu-Gly-Cys-Thr-Ser and Val-Cys-Lys-Met, were finally obtained in roughly equal amounts and in reasonable recovery. Both of these sequences were found in the amino acid sequence of Ca2+-transporting ATPase (Brandl et al. Cell 44, 597 (1986)), and Cys344 and Cys364 were identified as the targets of MalNEt-modification. Thus, 0.5 mol/mol ATPase of each Cys residue actually reacted rapidly with MalNEt under the conditions leading to SHN-modification. Modification of either one with MalNEt may negatively affect the reactivity of the other. Both of the highly reactive SH groups are located in the neighborhood of Asp351, the phosphorylation site of ATPase.
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PMID:Reactive sulfhydryl groups of sarcoplasmic reticulum ATPase. I. Location of a group which is most reactive with N-ethylmaleimide. 295 11

The nucleotide affinity label 5'-p-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine reacts at the active site of rabbit muscle pyruvate kinase, with irreversible inactivation occurring concomitant with incorporation of about 1 mol of reagent/mol of enzyme subunit (Annamalai, A. E., and Colman, R. F. (1981) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 10276-10283). Purified peptides have now been isolated from 70% inactivated enzyme containing 0.7 mol of reagent/mol of enzyme subunit. Rabbit muscle enzyme labeled with radioactive 5'-p-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine was digested with thermolysin. Nucleosidyl peptides were purified by chromatography on phenylboronate-agarose and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography. After amino acid and N-terminal analysis, the peptides were identified by comparison with the primary sequences of chicken and cat muscle enzyme. About 75% of the reagent incorporated was distributed equally among three O-(4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl)tyrosine-containing peptides: Leu-Asp-CBS-Tyr-Lys-Asn, Val-CBS-Tyr, and Leu-Asp-Asn-Ala-CBS-Tyr. These tyrosines are located in a 28-residue segment of the 530-amino acid sequence. The remainder of the incorporation was found in two N epsilon-(4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl)lysine-containing peptides. Leu-CBS-Lys and Ala-CBS-Lys-Gly-Asp-Tyr-Pro. Modification in the presence of MnATP or MnADP resulted in a marked decrease in labeling of these peptides in proportion to the decreased inactivation. It is suggested that these modified residues are located in the region of the catalytically functional nucleotide binding site of pyruvate kinase.
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PMID:Identification of tyrosine and lysine peptides labeled by 5'-p-fluorosulfonylbenzoyl adenosine in the active site of pyruvate kinase. 308 67

Absence of precipitation of calcium phosphate salts onto tooth surfaces from human saliva, which is supersaturated with respect to calcium phosphate salts, has been attributed in part to the presence in the salivary secretions of a group of acidic proline-rich phosphoproteins (PRP). These macromolecules are considered to act by adsorbing onto dental enamel where they inhibit surface-induced precipitation of calcium phosphate salts. The inhibitory activity is known to be associated primarily with the amino-terminal region of the PRP. The aim of this study was to determine the features of the primary structure of this molecular segment responsible for inhibitory activity. The 30-residue, amino-terminal segment of PRP-3, which contains the two phosphoserines and 11 of the 13 carboxyl groups present in PRP-3, was obtained by tryptic digestion. This peptide, designated PRP-3(TI), was treated with thermolysin to give the monophosphopeptides, Val-PSer-Gln-Glu-Asp-Val-Pro and Leu-Val-Ile-Ser-Asp-Gly-Gly-Asp-PSer-Glu-Gln, and with alkaline phosphatase to give the dephosphorylated analog, PRP-3(TI)DP. The inhibitory activities of PRP-3(TI) and the derived peptides, a synthetic peptide, phosphoseryl-phosphoserine (PSer-PSer), and O-phosphoserine (PSer), were determined using an assay based on inhibition of seeded precipitation of calcium phosphate. Inhibitory activities, expressed as concentrations of inhibitors required to give standard inhibitory activities, were PRP-3(TI), 0.59 microM; PSer-PSer, 3.5 microM; the two monophosphopeptides, 29 and 32.5 microM; PRP-3(TI)DP, 56 microM; PSer, 329 microM.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Inhibition of calcium phosphate precipitation by human salivary acidic proline-rich proteins: structure-activity relationships. 310 42

The amino acid sequence of the thioredoxin isolated from rabbit bone marrow was determined chiefly by high performance tandem mass spectrometry and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry combined with manual Edman degradation. The sequences of peptides generated by digestion with trypsin alone or in combination with Staphylococcus aureus protease V8 or thermolysin were determined from their collision-induced dissociation mass spectra. Alignment of these sequences and additional sequence information were obtained from the collision-induced dissociation mass spectra of peptides obtained from digestion of the intact protein with S. aureus protease V8 and alpha-chymotrypsin. The resulting sequence of 104 residues is as follows: Val-Lys-Gln-Ile-Glu-Ser-Lys-Ser-Ala-Phe-Gln- Glu-Val-Leu-Asp-Ser-Ala-Gly-Asp-Lys-Leu-Val-Val- Val-Asp-Phe-Ser-Ala-Thr-Trp-Cys-Gly-Pro-Cys-Lys- Met-Ile-Lys-Pro-Phe-Phe-His-Ala-Leu-Ser-Glu-Lys- Phe-Asn-Asn-Val-Val-Phe-Ile-Glu-Val-Asp-Val-Asp- Asp-Cys-Lys-Asp-Ile-Ala-Ala-Glu-Cys-Glu-Val-Lys- Cys-Met-Pro-Thr-Phe-Gln-Phe-Phe-Lys-Lys- Gly-Gln-Lys-Val-Gly-Glu-Phe-Ser-Gly-Ala-Asn-Lys- Glu-Lys-Leu-Glu-Ala-Thr-Ile-Asn-Glu-Leu-Leu.
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PMID:Amino acid sequence of thioredoxin isolated from rabbit bone marrow determined by tandem mass spectrometry. 316 11


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