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- Title
Exploring the subsite-structure of vimelysin and thermolysin using FRETS-libraries
- Authors
Oda, Kohei; Takahashi, Toshihiro; Takada, Katsumi; Tsunemi, Masahiko; Ng, Kenneth K.-S.; Hiraga, Kazumi; Harada, Shigeharu
- Abstract
Abstract: Vimelysin is a metalloproteinase with high activity at low temperature and an unusual resistance to organic solvents. Substrate specificities of vimelysin and thermolysin were examined using FRETS-libraries, revealing a significant difference at the P3′ position: vimelysin preferred acidic amino acid residues, whereas thermolysin preferred basic residues. Homology modeling of vimelysin suggests that oppositely charged residues in the S3′ subsites (R215 in vimelysin and D213 in thermolysin) may be responsible for this specificity difference. This hypothesis was confirmed by examining the R215D mutant of vimelysin, which showed a substrate specificity profile intermediate between thermolysin and vimelysin.
- Subjects
CHROMATOGRAPHIC analysis; ORGANIC compounds; ORGANIC solvents; AMINO acids; HOMOLOGY (Biology)
- Publication
FEBS Letters, 2005, Vol 579, Issue 22, p5013
- ISSN
0014-5793
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.febslet.2005.07.089