Takayuki K. Nemoto , Haruka Nishimata , Kana Shirakura , Yuko Ohara-Nemoto
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Abstract
We recently reported that the activities of dipeptidyl-peptidase (DPP)7 and DPP11, S46-family exopeptidases were significantly elevated by the presence of prime-side amino acid residues of substrates caused by an increase in kcat [Ohara-Nemoto Y. et al., J Biol Chem 298(3):101585. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022]. In the present study, the effects of prime-side residues on Glu-specific endopeptidase I/GluV8 from Staphylococcus aureus were investigated using a two-step cleavage method with tetrapeptidyl-methycoumaryl-7-amide (MCA) carrying P2- to P2′-position residues coupled with DPP11 as the second enzyme. GluV8 showed maximal activity toward benzyloxycarbonyl (Z)-LLE-MCA, while the effects of hydrolysis of substrates one residue shorter, such as acetyl (Ac)-Val-Glu- and Leu-Glu-MCA, were negligible. Nevertheless, activity towards Ac-VE-|-ID-MCA, a substrate carrying P1′ and P2′ residues, emerged and reached a level 44 % of that for Z-LLE-MCA. Among 11 Ac-HAXD-MCA (X is a varied amino acid), the highest level of activity enhancement was achieved with P1′-Leu and Ile, followed by Phe, Val, Ser, Tyr, and Ala, while Gly and Lys showed scant effects. This activation order was in parallel with the hydrophobicity indexes of these amino acids. The prime-side residues increased kcat/KM primarily through a maximum 500-fold elevation of kcat as well as S46-family exopeptidases. The MEROPS substrate database also indicates a close relationship between activity and hydrophobicity of the P1′ residues in 93 N-terminal-truncated substrates, though no correlation was observed among all 4328 GluV8 entities examined. Taken together, these results are the first to demonstrate N-terminal exopeptidase activity of GluV8, considered to be prompted by hydrophobic P1′ amino acid residues.
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