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INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 32, 期 7, 页码 821-828出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00169-2
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anti-coagulant; BPTI; Kunitz; sequence; mechanism; ticks; Ornithodoros savignyi
The full-length gene of savignin, a potent thrombin (E.C. 3.4.21.5) inhibitor from the tick Ornithodoros savignyi has been cloned and sequenced. Both 5' and 3' UTR's, a signal peptide from the translated amino acid sequence and an unusual poly-adenylation signal (AATACA) has been identified. The translated protein sequence shows high identity (63%) with ornithodorin, the thrombin inhibitor from the tick, Ornithodoros moubata. Molecular modeling using the structure of ornithodorin as reference gave a structure with an RMSD of 0.25 Angstrom for the full-length protein, 0.11 Angstrom for the N-terminal BPTI-like domain and 0.11 Angstrom for the C-terminal BPTI-like domain, indicating that maximum deviation occurs in the mobile bridge (0.18 Angstrom) between the two domains. Docking of savignin to thrombin shows that the interaction is similar to the ornithodorin-thrombin complex, The N-terminal amino acid residues of savignin bind inside the active site cleft, while the C-terminal domain of savignin has a net negative electrostatic potential and interacts with the basic fibrinogen recognition exosite of thrombin through hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions. These results correlate with kinetic data obtained, which showed that savignin is a competitive, slow, tight-binding inhibitor that requires thrombin's fibrinogen-binding exo-site for optimal inhibition, (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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