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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 111, 期 7, 页码 2518-2523出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318548111
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- Foundation for Polish Science
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
- National Institutes of Health [R01GM09040, R01CA163743]
The exploration of protease substrate specificity is generally restricted to naturally occurring amino acids, limiting the degree of conformational space that can be surveyed. We substantially enhanced this by incorporating 102 unnatural amino acids to explore the S1-S4 pockets of human neutrophil elastase. This approach provides hybrid natural and unnatural amino acid sequences, and thus we termed it the Hybrid Combinatorial Substrate Library. Library results were validated by the synthesis of individual tetrapeptide substrates, with the optimal substrate demonstrating more than three orders of magnitude higher catalytic efficiency than commonly used substrates of elastase. This optimal substrate was converted to an activity-based probe that demonstrated high selectivity and revealed the specific presence of active elastase during the process of neutrophil extracellular trap formation. We propose that this approach can be successfully used for any type of endopeptidase to deliver high activity and selectivity in substrates and probes.
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