期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
卷 121, 期 6, 页码 607-613出版社
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2015.10.010
关键词
Melanogenesis; Skin-lightening agents; Tyrosinase inhibitor; Peptide; Action mechanism
资金
- Cosmetology Research Foundation
Tyrosinase, a rate-limiting enzyme in melanin biosynthesis, catalyzes the hydroxylation of L-tyrosine to 3,4-dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine (L-dopa) (monophenolase reaction) and the subsequent oxidation of L-dopa to L-dopaquinone (diphenolase reaction). Thus, tyrosinase inhibitors have been proposed as skin-lightening agents; however, many of the existing inhibitors cannot be widely used in the cosmetic industry due to their high cytotoxicity and instability. On the other hand, some tyrosinase inhibitory peptides have been reported as safe. In this study, we found that the peptide TH10, which has a similar sequence to the characterized inhibitory peptide P4, strongly inhibits the monophenolase reaction with a half-maximal inhibitory concentration of 102 mu M. Seven of the ten amino acid residues in TH10 were identical to P4; however, TH10 possesses one N-terminal tyrosine, whereas P4 contains three tyrosine residues located at its N-terminus, center, and C-terminus. Subsequent analysis using sequence-shuffled variants indicated that the tyrosine residues located at the N-terminus and center of P4 have little to no contribution to its inhibitory activity. Furthermore, docking simulation analysis of these peptides with mushroom tyrosinase demonstrated that the active tyrosine residue was positioned close to copper ions, suggesting that TH10 and P4 bind to tyrosinase as a substrate analogue. (C) 2015 The Society for Biotechnology, Japan. All rights reserved.
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