Kristin E Low1, Sarathy Karunan Partha2, Peter L Davies3, Robert L Campbell4. 1. Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. Electronic address: kristin.low@queensu.ca. 2. Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. Electronic address: karunans@ucalgary.ca. 3. Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. Electronic address: peter.davies@queensu.ca. 4. Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. Electronic address: robert.campbell@queensu.ca.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The mercaptoacrylate calpain inhibitor, PD150606, has been shown by X-ray crystallography to bind to a hydrophobic groove in the enzyme's penta-EF-hand domains far away from the catalytic cleft and has been previously described as an uncompetitive inhibitor of calpains. The penta-peptide LSEAL has been reported to be an inhibitor of calpain and was predicted to bind in the same hydrophobic groove. The X-ray crystal structure of calpain-2 bound to its endogenous calpain inhibitor, calpastatin, shows that calpastatin also binds to the hydrophobic grooves in the two penta-EF-hand domains, but its inhibitory domain binds to the protease core domains and blocks the active site cleft directly. METHODS: The mechanisms of inhibition by PD150606 and LSEAL were investigated using steady-state kinetics of cleavage of a fluorogenic substrate by calpain-2 and the protease core of calpain1, as well as by examining the inhibition of casein hydrolysis by calpain and the autoproteolysis of calpain. RESULTS: PD150606 inhibits both full-length calpain-2 and the protease core of calpain-1 with an apparent noncompetitive kinetic model. The penta-peptide LSEAL failed to inhibit either whole calpain or its protease core in vitro. CONCLUSIONS: PD150606 cannot inhibit cleavage by calpain-2 of small substrates via binding to the penta-EF-hand domain. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE: PD150606 is often described as a calpain-specific inhibitor due to its ability to target the penta-EF-hand domains of calpain, but we show that it must be acting at a site on the protease core domain instead.
BACKGROUND: The mercaptoacrylate calpain inhibitor, PD150606, has been shown by X-ray crystallography to bind to a hydrophobic groove in the enzyme's penta-EF-hand domains far away from the catalytic cleft and has been previously described as an uncompetitive inhibitor of calpains. The penta-peptide LSEAL has been reported to be an inhibitor of calpain and was predicted to bind in the same hydrophobic groove. The X-ray crystal structure of calpain-2 bound to its endogenous calpain inhibitor, calpastatin, shows that calpastatin also binds to the hydrophobic grooves in the two penta-EF-hand domains, but its inhibitory domain binds to the protease core domains and blocks the active site cleft directly. METHODS: The mechanisms of inhibition by PD150606 and LSEAL were investigated using steady-state kinetics of cleavage of a fluorogenic substrate by calpain-2 and the protease core of calpain1, as well as by examining the inhibition of casein hydrolysis by calpain and the autoproteolysis of calpain. RESULTS:PD150606 inhibits both full-length calpain-2 and the protease core of calpain-1 with an apparent noncompetitive kinetic model. The penta-peptide LSEAL failed to inhibit either whole calpain or its protease core in vitro. CONCLUSIONS:PD150606 cannot inhibit cleavage by calpain-2 of small substrates via binding to the penta-EF-hand domain. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE: PD150606 is often described as a calpain-specific inhibitor due to its ability to target the penta-EF-hand domains of calpain, but we show that it must be acting at a site on the protease core domain instead.
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