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The activity of insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE), a thiol metalloprotease degrading insulin in many insulin target cells, was determined in human colon adenocarcinoma (Caco-2) cells. Insulin-degrading activity was localized in the cytosol of Caco-2 cells, accounting for 88% of total activity. Western blots and immunoprecipitation showed that IDE was present in the cytosol of Caco-2 cells and contributed to more than 93% cytosolic insulin-degrading activity. Cytosolic insulin degradation was strongly inhibited by IDE inhibitors, including N-ethylmaleimide, 1,10-phenanthroline, p-chloromericuribenzoate, and EDTA, but was not significantly or not as extensively inhibited by strong inhibitors of proteasome, i.e., chymostatin, soybean trypsin inhibitor, leupeptin, and Dip-F. These results suggest that IDE is present in Caco-2 cells, that Caco-2 IDE has properties similar to those of its counterparts in insulin-target tissues, and that it significantly contributes to intracellular insulin degradation.
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PMID:Insulin-degrading enzyme in a human colon adenocarcinoma cell line (Caco-2). 759 85

Herbimycin A is an ansamycin antibiotic isolated as an agent that reverses morphological transformation induced by v-src. Although herbimycin A is widely used as a tool for inhibiting multiple tyrosine protein kinases and tyrosine kinase-activated signal transduction, its mechanism of action is not well defined and includes a decrease in both tyrosine kinase protein levels and activity (Uehara, Y., Murakami, Y., Sugimoto, Y., and Mizuno, S. (1989) Cancer Res. 49, 780-785). We now show that herbimycin A induces a profound decrease in the total cellular activity of transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptors, such as insulin-like growth factor, insulin, and epidermal growth factor receptors. A substantial proportion of the in vivo inhibition could be explained by an increase in the rate of degradation. The enhanced degradation of insulin-like growth factor-insulin receptor was prevented by inhibitors of the 20S proteasome, whereas neither lysosomotropic agents nor general serine- and cysteine-protease inhibitors were active in preventing receptor degradation induced by herbimycin A. Moreover, in a temperature-sensitive mutant cell line defective in the E1-catalyzed activation of ubiquitin, herbimycin A treatment at the restrictive temperature did not result in the degradation of insulin receptor. These results suggest that herbimycin A represents a novel class of drug that targets the degradation of tyrosine kinases by the 20S proteasome. The ubiquitin dependence of this process indicates that this degradation of tyrosine kinases might involve the 20S proteasome as the proteolytic core of the ubiquitin-dependent 26S protease.
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PMID:Herbimycin A induces the 20 S proteasome- and ubiquitin-dependent degradation of receptor tyrosine kinases. 762 64

Conformationally stabilized peptides and unfolding intermediates of bovine alpha-lactalbumin have been used to define the degree of unfolding required for degradation by 20S proteasomes. It appears that complete unfolding and the absence of disulphide bonds are prerequisites for degradation, suggesting that a relatively narrow opening controls access to the inner proteolytic compartment of the barrel-shaped proteasome. This is corroborated by electron microscopy studies showing that the insulin B-chain, which is otherwise easily degraded, cannot pass the orifice of this putative peptide channel when a Nanogold particle with a diameter of approximately 2 nm is covalently attached to it.
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PMID:Conformational constraints in protein degradation by the 20S proteasome. 777 88

Two high molecular mass proteinases, multicatalytic proteinase (MCP) and a new high molecular mass proteinase (HMP) with only chymotrypsin-like activity (Khan et al. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 10016-10021) from human erythrocyte membranes, have been compared. For this purpose, MCP was purified from human erythrocyte membranes in the active form towards synthetic peptide substrates; it also hydrolysed the protein substrates [14]methyl casein and [14C]oxidised insulin beta chain at 37 degrees C. MCP from plasma membranes exhibited hollow cylindrical structures also typical of cytosolic forms. Radiolabelled diisopropyl fluorophosphate, [3H]DFP, a serine proteinase inhibitor, labelled a band of Mr 23 000 in membrane MCP. By contrast, no labelling was obtained with HMP. Chymotrypsin-like activity of HMP was also found to be insensitive to DFP. On the other hand, DFP inhibited chymotrypsin-like and peptidylglutamyl peptide hydrolysing activities of membrane MCP, with no effect on its trypsin-like activity. The inhibition of MCP by DFP was concentration-dependent. These studies showed that MCP and HMP represent two distinct kinds of proteinases with chymotrypsin-like activities and can be distinguished by the serine proteinase inhibitor DFP.
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PMID:Membrane-bound high molecular mass proteinases from human erythrocytes. 781 93

An extracellular proteasome-like (EP) structure has been isolated from serum-free media conditioned by C6 astrocytoma cells. EP has a native molecular mass of 1000 kDa and is composed of three subunits, two isoelectric variants at 70 kDa and one at 65 kDa. The extracellular proteasome degraded collagen IV, alpha-casein, beta-insulin, and certain synthetic peptide substrates. A 68-kDa type IV collagenase, identified as the activated form of gelatinase A, was also isolated from this medium. The type IV collagenase activity of the proteasome was sensitive to serine protease inhibitors, while the 68-kDa collagenase IV represented the matrix metalloprotease gelatinase A. The general protease activity of the proteasome was sensitive to metalloprotease inhibitors. Western blot analysis indicates a sequence relationship between the 68-kDa type IV collagenase and either one or both of the 70-kDa isoelectric variants of the proteasome; however, the two enzymes appear to be distinct functionally. Comparison with known proteasomes indicates that EP represents a novel proteasome. The complexity of degradative enzymes in the extracellular microenvironment implies that complete inhibition of tumor growth requires at least a combination of serine and metalloprotease inhibitors.
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PMID:An extracellular proteasome-like structure from C6 astrocytoma cells with serine collagenase IV activity and metallo-dependent activity on alpha-casein and beta-insulin. 787 29

The insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) and the multicatalytic proteinase (MCP) can be isolated as components of a cytosolic proteolytic complex. IDE is the primary enzyme involved in cellular degradation of insulin, and insulin has been shown to interact with cytosolic IDE. MCP is believed to be important in non-ubiquitin pathways of cellular protein degradation. Insulin has a dose- and time-dependent inhibitory effect on MCP degradation of N-succinyl-Leu-Leu-Val-Tyr 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (LLVY), a substrate for MCP. Proinsulin also inhibits LLVY degradation in a dose-dependent manner. The effect of insulin is immediate as measured in a continuously monitored assay of LLVY degradation. Purification of the IDE-MCP complex using a variety of approaches, including affinity and conventional chromatography, retains the insulin effect on LLVY degradation as long as the complex remains intact. After ion-exchange chromatography, which separates IDE and MCP, insulin no longer has an inhibitory effect. Recombination of purified IDE and MCP does not restore the effect of insulin, but inclusion of additional components from the ion-exchange column does. These results support the existence of a functional cytosolic complex that contains IDE and MCP. Insulin interacts with IDE and alters the activity of MCP, suggesting a functional relationship between these two components and a mechanism for an intracellular action of insulin.
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PMID:A direct inhibitory effect of insulin on a cytosolic proteolytic complex containing insulin-degrading enzyme and multicatalytic proteinase. 792 29

The insulin degrading enzyme (IDE) is the first recognized member of a new class of metalloproteinases. Studies on the purification and the properties of this enzyme have led to divergent results and conclusions from different laboratories. The present manuscript suggests that many of the divergent results may be due to the interaction of this enzyme with other proteins as part of a proteolytic complex. IDE co-isolates with the multicatalytic proteinase (MCP) during a wide variety of purification approaches including affinity chromatography and conventional purification approaches. Ion exchange chromatography will partially or completely separate IDE and MCP. The SDS-PAGE protein bands at various purification steps suggest the presence of a cytosolic proteolytic complex containing IDE, MCP and other unidentified components and raise the possibility of a functional interaction among these proteins.
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PMID:Identification and isolation of a cytosolic proteolytic complex containing insulin degrading enzyme and the multicatalytic proteinase. 804 17

An extracellular elastase, termed Myxococcus xanthus alkaline protease 1 (MAP1), has been purified from M. xanthus DK1622 culture supernatants by a combination of ion-exchange and affinity chromatographies. It consists of a single peptide chain of 39 kDa. The elastolytic activity was totally suppressed by 10 mM 1,10-phenanthroline and the enzyme may then be classified as a metalloprotease. Its pH optimum was estimated to be 8.2 with both elastin-orcein and succinyl-Ala3 p-nitroanilide as substrates. Despite its low pI (5.2), MAP1 was adsorbed on elastin at 80%, a result which privileges hydrophobic interactions between MAP1 and elastin rather than salt bridges, as for known basic elastases. About 80% of the original amidasic and elastolytic activities were conserved after a 30-min prior incubation of the enzyme at 40 degrees C; however, 70% of the amidasic activity is measured, instead of 15% for the elastolytic activity, after 30 min at 50 degrees C. Thermal denaturation at this temperature may prevent adsorption of the enzyme on elastin without any important change of the elastase structure. MAP1 readily hydrolyzes the Gly23-Phe24 bond in the oxidized insulin B chain; the peptide bonds Ala14-Leu15, Leu15-Tyr16, Phe24-Phe25, Phe25-Tyr26 are also cleaved, suggesting a primary specificity of the enzyme for hydrophobic or aromatic residues at the first amino acid towards the C-terminus from the cleavage site (P'1 position) [Schechter, I. & Berger, A. (1967) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 27, 157-162]. This hypothesis is consistent with the fact that Ala2-Phe-Ala and Ala3-Phe-Ala are hydrolyzed even though tri-alanine to hexa-alanine oligomers are not. The evidence of an elastase with the same molecular mass and pI as MAP1 is given during fruiting body development in submerged culture of M. xanthus. The fact that aromatic amino acids have been found to be the most representative of A-signal [Kuspa, A., Plamann, L. & Kaiser, D. (1992) J. Bacteriol. 174, 3319-3326] is consistent with the hypothesis that, regarding its specificity, MAP1 is likely to play a role in development of myxobacteria.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of an alkaline elastase from Myxococcus xanthus. 805 53

The multicatalytic proteinase complex (proteasome) contains at least four distinct active sites catalyzing the degradation of selected chromogenic substrates (trypsin-like, chymotrypsin-like, and peptidylglutamyl peptide hydrolyzing activities) and proteins such as beta-casein. Oxidized insulin B chain was recently proposed as a model substrate for protein degradation by the multicatalytic proteinase complex (Dick, L. R., Moomaw, C. R., DeMartino, G. N., and Slaughter, C. A. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 2725-2734). We studied the dialysis-induced activation of the hydrolysis of oxidized insulin B chain by this enzyme. Removal of EDTA from purified preparations of bovine pituitary multicatalytic proteinase complex by dialysis against Tris-HCl buffers led to marked changes in the catalytic properties and structure of the enzyme. Dialysis produced a time-dependent activation of oxidized insulin B chain hydrolysis with predominant cleavage at the Glu13-Ala14 bond. A new chromogenic assay was developed for measurement of this activity. Activation was accompanied by a virtually total inactivation of the chymotrypsin-like, trypsin-like, and peptidylglutamyl peptide hydrolyzing activities. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed a loss of the 24-kDa subunit and the appearance of a new band at 21 kDa. Amino-terminal amino acid analysis established that the 21-kDa band was autolytically derived from the 24-kDa subunit. Evidence for partial dissociation and/or aggregation indicated that autolysis destabilizes the complex. By altering the profile of catalytic activities of the multicatalytic proteinase complex, autolysis may serve as a mechanism for regulation of this macromolecule.
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PMID:Changes in the structure and catalytic activities of the bovine pituitary multicatalytic proteinase complex following dialysis. 842 Sep 77

The specificity of action of the proteasome purified from the cytosol of Xenopus oocyte was investigated using oxidized insulin B chain as the substrate. HPLC analyses of the produced peptides followed by amino acid analyses showed that it cleaved four peptide bonds, Leu6-Cya7, Glu13-Ala14, Leu15-Tyr16, and Leu17-Val18, of the peptide. Cleavage at Leu6-Cya7 was found to be specific to the Xenopus enzyme. The enzyme did not cleave Gln4-His5 and Cya19-Gly20, which are commonly hydrolyzed by proteasomes from rat and mouse liver, and human erythrocyte. In contrast to previous results obtained with the mammalian proteasome, the cleavage by the Xenopus enzyme was inhibited selectively by chymostatin. These results demonstrate distinct species difference in cleavage specificity and inhibition profile among proteasomes of different origins.
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PMID:Cleavage specificity and inhibition profile of proteasome isolated from the cytosol of Xenopus oocyte. 846 28


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