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Two-step mechanism of inhibition of cathepsin B by cystatin C, due to the inhibitor displacing the occluding loop of the enzyme

Författare

Summary, in English

Stopped-flow kinetics showed that the inhibition of the lysosomal cysteine proteinase, cathepsin B, by its endogenous inhibitor, cystatin C, occurs by a two-step mechanism, in which an initial, weak interaction is followed by a conformational change. The initial interaction most likely involves binding of the N-terminal region of the inhibitor to the proteinase. Considerable evidence indicates that the subsequent conformational change is due to the inhibitor displacing the occluding loop of the proteinase that partially obscures the active site. The presence of this loop, which allows the enzyme to function as an exopeptidase, thus complicates the inhibition mechanism, rendering cathepsin B much less susceptible than other cysteine proteinases to inhibition by cystatins.

Publiceringsår

1998

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

61-64

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

FEBS Letters

Volym

422

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Cysteine proteinase
  • Cysteine proteinase inhibitor
  • Cathepsin
  • Cystatin
  • Kinetics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-3468