期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS
卷 1834, 期 12, 页码 2722-2728出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2013.09.007
关键词
Botulinum neurotoxin; Mass spectrometry
资金
- Intramural CDC HHS [CC999999] Funding Source: Medline
Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) cause the life-threatening disease botulism through the inhibition of neurotransmitter release by cleaving essential SNARE proteins. There are seven serologically distinctive types of BoNTs and many subtypes within a serotype have been identified. BoNT/A5 is a recently discovered subtype of type A botulinum neurotoxin which possesses a very high degree of sequence similarity and identity to the well-studied Al subtype. In the present study, we examined the endopeptidase activity of these two BoNT/A subtypes and our results revealed significant differences in substrate binding and cleavage efficiency between subtype AS and Al. Distinctive hydrolysis efficiency was observed between the two toxins during cleavage of the native substrate SNAP-25 versus a shortened peptide mimic. N-terminal truncation studies demonstrated that a key region of the SNAP-25, including the amino acid residues at 151 through 154 located in the remote binding region of the substrate, contributed to the differential catalytic properties between Al and A5. Elevated binding affinity of the peptide substrate resulted from including these important residues and enhanced BoNT/ A5's hydrolysis efficiency. In addition, mutations of these amino add residues affect the proteolytic performance of the two toxins in different ways. This study provides a better understanding of the biological activity of these toxins, their performance characteristics in the Endopep-MS assay to detect BoNT in clinical samples and foods, and is useful for the development of peptide substrates. (C) 2013 The Authors. All rights reserved.
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