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  • Using HPLC and an amino acid sequencer the

    2019-07-11

    Using HPLC and an amino 9-AC sequencer, the site of cleavage into the fluorogenic substrate AbzFRQEDDnp, determined as specific to the endopeptidase STH2, was analyzed and identified as being R2-Q3, and into substrate AbzFGQEDDnp, determined as specific to SH1, it was G2-Q3 (Fig. 5, Fig. 6). The study of the hydrolysis of several inhibitors on enzyme activity using AbzBKQEDDnp, AbzFRQEDDnp and AbzFGQEDDnp as substrates is shown in Table 2. Endopeptidases SH1 and STH2 are inhibited by PMSF. Moreover, in spite of being sensitive to the classic serine protease inhibitors, enzyme STH2 is also inhibited by E64, 2ME and pHOMB. The inhibition observed for pOHMB was partially reverted by cysteine (2mM). Enzyme SH1 is a serine endopeptidase and STH2 a serine thiol endopeptidase. The effect of pH variation on the hydrolysis of substrate AbzBKQEDDnp by enzyme SH1 and STH2 is present in the Fig. 7. The serine endopeptidase SH1 shows maximum activity at the 7.0 and 8.5. Using the specific fluorogenic substrate the maximum activity for SH1 was observed at pHs 5.5 and 8.0 (Fig. 8). It was not possible to determine the optimum pH for serine thiol endopeptidase STH2 (Fig. 9). Using substrate AbzBKQEDDnp, the Km determined for endopeptidases SH1 and STH2 were 1.18 and 0.79uM, respectively. The Km determined for SH1 using the its specific fluorogenic substrate AbzFGQEDDnp was 0.0072uM and for STH2, using AbzFRGEDDnp as substrate, it was 3.02uM (Table 3). Table 4 shows the N-terminal sequence of SH1, which demonstrated 100% of similarity of SH1 with a trypsin-like found in human airway.
    Discussion We have detected in human urine a serine endopeptidase, SH1, and a serine thiol endopeptidase, STH2, purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography followed by an Affinity chromatography on a Sepharose Mercurial column. The enzymes were purified 10 and 88 fold, respectively, until homogeneity, presenting specific activities of 101.2 and 2945.0U/mg, respectively. In fluorogenic substrate AbzBKQEDDnp the endopeptidases hydrolyzes peptides bonds that differ from obtained for BK not quenched. Enzyme STH2 cleaves site F8-R9 at fluorogenic substrate and bond F5-S6 into BK. Serine endopeptidase SH1 hydrolyzes peptide bond R9-Q10 into quenched BK and F5-S6 in normal BK. The displacement of the sessile bond may occur, because the addition of an amino acid residue (Q) could change the peptide conformation, reflecting in the enzyme-substrate interaction, thus modifying the specificity (Chagas, 1990). Endopeptidases SH1 and STH2 were inhibited by PMSF, an inhibitor of serine endopeptidases. Enzyme STH2 was also inhibited by E64, a highly specific inhibitor of cysteine proteases and by pOHMB, that could be partially reversed by cysteine (2mM). These results suggest that this enzyme contains a SH- group that is important for its catalytic activity, similar to the P. brasiliensis exocellular enzyme (Carmona et al., 1995) and humicolin of Thermoactinomyces vulgaris (Stepanov et al., 1981). All proteases of this class, already described in the literature (Carmona et al., 1995; Hasnain, Adeli, & Storer, 1992; Kundu & Manna, 1975; Mizusawa & Yoshida, 1973; Ong & Gaucher, 1973; Stepanov et al., 1981) depend, for their activities, on the free sulfidryl group. The inhibition profile observed for substrate AbzBKQEDDnp was the same when we used the specific substrate for each enzyme. The Km determined for endopeptidases SH1 and STH2, using substrate AbzBKQEDDnp, were 1.18 and 0.79uM, respectively, by lineweaver-burk projection. In several works that used different fluorogenic substrates, the Km values obtained were to an order of uM (Chagas, 1990, Carmona et al., 1995, Camargo et al., 1997; Medeiros, Franca, Boileau, Juliano, & Carvalho, 1997). Using the specific substrates AbzFGQEDDnp and AbzFRQEDDnp, the Km determined was 0.0072 and 3.02uM, respectively. Serine endopeptidase H1 presented a peak of low activity in pH 7.0, reaching maximum value at pH 8.5, using AbzBKQEDDnp as substrate. The pHs determined for this enzyme using its fluorogenic substrate were 5.5 and 8.0. It was not possible to determine the optimum pH for endopeptidase STH2. The graphics presented showed that the fluorescence readings increase and these values cannot be considered, since the fluorescence readings obtained in high pH are not real appertaining for the peptide degradation (Carmona et al., 1995).