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3-aminopiperidine-based peptide analogues as the first selective noncovalent inhibitors of the bacterial cysteine protease IdeS
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular Biology (Faculty of Medicine). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR).
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular Biology (Faculty of Medicine). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR).
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2012 (English)In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, ISSN 0022-2623, E-ISSN 1520-4804, Vol. 55, no 6, p. 2549-2560Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A series of eight peptides corresponding to the amino acid sequence of the hinge region of IgG and 17 newly synthesized peptide analogues containing a piperidine moiety as a replacement of a glycine residue were tested as potential inhibitors of the bacterial IgG degrading enzyme of Streptococcus pyogenes, IdeS. None of the peptides showed any inhibitory activity of IdeS, but several piperidine-based analogues were identified as inhibitors. Two different analysis methods were used: an SDS-PAGE based assay to detect IgG cleavage products and a surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy based assay to quantify the degree of inhibition. To investigate the selectivity of the inhibitors for IdeS, all compounds were screened against two other related cysteine proteases (SpeB and papain). The selectivity results show that larger analogues that are active inhibitors of IdeS are even more potent as inhibitors of papain, whereas smaller analogues that are active inhibitors of IdeS inhibit neither SpeB nor papain. Two compounds were identified that exhibit high selectivity against IdeS and will be used for further studies.

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2012. Vol. 55, no 6, p. 2549-2560
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Cell and Molecular Biology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-55368DOI: 10.1021/jm201517aISI: 000301767000004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84858733285OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-55368DiVA, id: diva2:529664
Available from: 2012-05-31 Created: 2012-05-14 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved
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1. Studies on secreted cysteine proteases of Streptococcus pyogenes: IdeS and SpeB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Studies on secreted cysteine proteases of Streptococcus pyogenes: IdeS and SpeB
2014 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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The pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes is a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality. Most of the work in this thesis is focused on streptococcal virulence factor IdeS, but the thesis also features work on SpeB, another streptococcal virulence factor. Both IdeS and SpeB are secreted cysteine proteases and both have previously been shown to degrade human IgG. IgG is the only known substrate for IdeS while SpeB is a more promiscuous protease with a larger number of identified substrates. A significant part of the data presented in this thesis is the result of designing and optimizing methods to detect and accurately measure the proteolytic degradation of IgG. Methods aimed at measuring the binding interactions between enzyme and substrate have also been frequently utilized. I show that IdeS is a monomeric protease, as opposed to previously published data that suggested it to be dimeric. IdeS cleaves the two heavy chains of IgG in a two-step reaction and I demonstrate that the first cleavage is magnitudes faster than the second one. This means that IdeS is a more efficient enzyme than previously thought. The difference in rate cannot completely be explained by a loss of affinity between IdeS and IgG after the cleavage of the first heavy chain. The velocity of IdeS is further increased by the presence of human Cystatin C, via an unknown mechanism. Cystatin C is normally a protease inhibitor and it having an opposite effect is puzzling.The synthesis and evaluation of novel inhibitors are also described. Peptide analogues mimicking the sequence surrounding the scissile bond on IgG - with an amino acid replaced with a more rigid motif - act as specific, but low-affinity, inhibitors of IdeS. The peptide analogues’ inhibitory capacity for SpeB and papain was also assayed.When it comes to SpeB, I show that it does not have IgG as a substrate under physiological conditions, in contrast to what was previously thought. This thesis does not only present findings on the IgG degrading capacity of IdeS and SpeB but also include data on fundamental enzymatic properties for these proteases.

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Umeå: Umeå Universitet, 2014. p. 49
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Umeå University medical dissertations, ISSN 0346-6612 ; 1646
Keywords
Streptococcus pyogenes, Group A Streptococci, GAS, virulence factor, IdeS, SpeB, cysteine protease, protease inhibitor, IgG, immune evasion
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Research subject
molecular biotechnology (dept of molecular biology)
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urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-88223 (URN)978-91-7601-048-8 (ISBN)
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2014-05-27, Sal E04, by 6E, Norrlands universitetssjukhus, Umeå, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2014-05-06 Created: 2014-04-28 Last updated: 2018-06-07Bibliographically approved

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