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MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
Volume 117, Issue 2, Pages 137-143Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00340-1
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cathepsin L; cathepsin B; papain; cysteine proteinase of Leishmania mexicana; cruzipain; cruzain
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We have explored the specificity of the S-2 subsite of recombinant cysteine proteinases from Leishmania mexicana (CPB2.8 Delta CTE) and from Trypanosoma cruzi (cruzain) employing a series of fluorogenic substrates based on the peptide Bz-F-R-MCA, in which Bz is the benzoyl group and the Phe residue has been substituted for by Arg, His and non-natural basic amino acids that combine a basic group with an aromatic or hydrophobic group at the side chain: 4-aminomethyl-phenylalanine (Amf), 4-guanidine phenylalanine (Gnf), 4-aminomethyl-N-isopropyl-phenylalanine (Iaf), 3-pyridyl-alanine (Pya), 4-piperidinylalanine (Ppa). 4-aminomethyl-cyclohexyl-alanine (Ama), and 4-aminocyclohexyl-alanine (Aca). Bz-F-R-MCA was hydrolyzed well by CPB2.8 Delta CTE and cruzain, but all the substitutions of Phe resulted in less susceptible substrates for the two enzymes. CPB2.8 Delta CTE has a restricted specificity to hydrophobic side chains as with cathepsin L. However, the peptides with the residues Amf and Ama presented higher affinity to CPB2.8ACTE, and the latter was an inhibitor of the enzyme. Although, cruzain accepts basic as well as hydrophobic residues at the S2 Subsite, it is more restrictive than cathepsin B and no inhibitor was found amongst the examined peptides. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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