Mechanism of inhibition of papain by chicken egg white cystatin
- 30 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 243 (2) , 234-238
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(89)80135-8
Abstract
N‐terminally truncated forms of chicken egg white cystatin and its cyanogen bromide fragments were isolated and assayed for inhibition of papain. Truncated forms beginning with Gly‐9 and Ala‐10 had a 5000‐fold lower affinity for papain than the two isoelectric forms (pI=6.5 and 5.6) of the full‐length inhibitor (K i=6 pM and 7 pM) or a truncated form beginning with Leu‐7 (K i=6 pM), indicating the outstanding importance of one or two residues preceding conserved Gly‐9 for binding. A weak inhibition of papain (K i=900 nM) was exhibited by the intermediate cyanogen bromide fragment (residues 30–89) containing the chicken cystatin QLVSG variation of the QVVAG segment which is conserved in almost all members of the cystatin superfamily. The obtained affiffity data provide independent evidence for the validity of the proposed docking model of a chicken cystatin‐papain complex [(1988) EMBO J. 7, 2593–2599].Keywords
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