1CA0

BOVINE CHYMOTRYPSIN COMPLEXED TO APPI

Summary for 1CA0

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb1ca0/pdb
• Descriptor: BOVINE CHYMOTRYPSIN, PROTEASE INHIBITOR DOMAIN OF ALZHEIMER'S AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR, ... (5 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: serine protease, inhibitor, protease-substrate interactions, complex (serine protease-inhibitor), complex (serine protease-inhibitor) complex, complex (serine protease/inhibitor)
• Biological source: Bos taurus (cattle); More
• Cellular location: Secreted, extracellular space: P00766 P00766 P00766; Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein: P05067
• Total number of polymer chains: 8
• Total formula weight: 62536.46

Authors

Scheidig, A.J.,Kossiakoff, A.A. (deposition date: 1997-01-23, release date: 1997-07-23, Last modification date: 2024-10-30)

Primary citation

Scheidig, A.J.,Hynes, T.R.,Pelletier, L.A.,Wells, J.A.,Kossiakoff, A.A.
Crystal structures of bovine chymotrypsin and trypsin complexed to the inhibitor domain of Alzheimer's amyloid beta-protein precursor (APPI) and basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI): engineering of inhibitors with altered specificities.
Protein Sci., 6:1806-1824, 1997

PubMed Abstract: The crystal structures of the inhibitor domain of Alzheimer's amyloid beta-protein precursor (APPI) complexed to bovine chymotrypsin (C-APPI) and trypsin (T-APPI) and basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) bound to chymotrypsin (C-BPTI) have been solved and analyzed at 2.1 A, 1.8 A, and 2.6 A resolution, respectively. APPI and BPTI belong to the Kunitz family of inhibitors, which is characterized by a distinctive tertiary fold with three conserved disulfide bonds. At the specificity-determining site of these inhibitors (P1), residue 15(I)4 is an arginine in APPI and a lysine in BPTI, residue types that are counter to the chymotryptic hydrophobic specificity. In the chymotrypsin complexes, the Arg and Lys P1 side chains of the inhibitors adopt conformations that bend away from the bottom of the binding pocket to interact productively with elements of the binding pocket other than those observed for specificity-matched P1 side chains. The stereochemistry of the nucleophilic hydroxyl of Ser 195 in chymotrypsin relative to the scissile P1 bond of the inhibitors is identical to that observed for these groups in the trypsin-APPI complex, where Arg 15(I) is an optimal side chain for tryptic specificity. To further evaluate the diversity of sequences that can be accommodated by one of these inhibitors, APPI, we used phage display to randomly mutate residues 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19, which are major binding determinants. Inhibitors variants were selected that bound to either trypsin or chymotrypsin. As expected, trypsin specificity was principally directed by having a basic side chain at P1 (position 15); however, the P1 residues that were selected for chymotrypsin binding were His and Asn, rather than the expected large hydrophobic types. This can be rationalized by modeling these hydrophilic side chains to have similar H-bonding interactions to those observed in the structures of the described complexes. The specificity, or lack thereof, for the other individual subsites is discussed in the context of the "allowed" residues determined from a phage display mutagenesis selection experiment.

PubMed: 9300481

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.1 Å)