Development and photo-responsive peptide bond cleavage reaction of two-photon near-infrared excitation-responsive peptide

AbstractSerine proteases catalyze a multi-step covalent catalytic mechanism of peptide bond cleavage. It has long been assumed that serine proteases including thrombin carry-out catalysis without significant conformational rearrangement of their stable two-β-barrel structure. We present nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) experiments on the thrombin-thrombomodulin (TM) complex. Thrombin promotes procoagulative fibrinogen cleavage when fibrinogen engages both the anion binding exosite 1 (ABE1) and the active site. It is thought that TM promotes cleavage of protein C by engaging ABE1 in a similar manner as fibrinogen. Thus, the thrombin-TM complex may represent the catalytically active, ABE1-engaged thrombin. Compared to apo- and active site inhibited-thrombin, we show that thrombin-TM has reduced μs-ms dynamics in the substrate binding (S1) pocket consistent with its known acceleration of protein C binding. Thrombin-TM has increased μs-ms dynamics in a β-strand connecting the TM binding site to the catalytic aspartate. Finally, thrombin-TM had doublet peaks indicative of dynamics that are slow on the NMR timescale in residues along the interface between the two β-barrels. Such dynamics may be responsible for facilitating the N-terminal product release and water molecule entry that are required for hydrolysis of the acyl-enzyme intermediate.

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Activation of Bovine Factor V by Thrombin and A Protease From Russell's Viper Venom (RVV)

10.1055/s-0039-1687642 ◽

1979 ◽

Author(s):

M.J. Lindhout ◽

C. M. Jackson

Keyword(s):

Bond Cleavage ◽

Peptide Bond ◽

Ion Exchange Chromatography ◽

Exchange Chromatography ◽

Factor V ◽

Peptide Bond Cleavage ◽

Prothrombinase Complex ◽

Factor Va ◽

Activation Products ◽

Ca Oxalate

In order to understand the function of activated factor V in the prothrombinase complex, we isolated the activation products obtained by action of thrombin and RVV-V on factor V and studied their functional properties. Factor V isolated from plasma by means of ion-exchange chromatography, a Ca-oxalate adsorption step and gelfiltration was homogenous in SDS-gelelectrophoresis (apparent MW 360,000, with and without reduction). Increase in factor V activity upon action by RVV-V is correlated with a single peptide bond cleavage, resulting in a 270,000 dalton and a 80,000 dalton component. Additional proteolysis of factor Va(RVV/V)’ by thrombin results in a further cleavage of the high MW component into peptides with MW's of 72,000, 94,000 and about 150,000 without a furth~r increase in factor V activity. Whereas none of the isolated peptides reveal factor Va activity, activity would be generated by a recombination in the presence of Ca2+ of the 94,000 MW or 270,000 MW component with the 80,000 component. Action of thrombin alone on factor V results in peptides of MW 72,000, 80,000, 94,000 and a peptide very rich in carbohydrate with an apparent MW of 150,000.

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Nitro–Nitrite Isomerization and Transition State Switching in the Dissociation of Ionized Nitromethane: A Threshold Photoelectron–Photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy Study

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry ◽

10.1255/ejms.943 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 157-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Brandon Ferrier ◽

Anne-Marie Boulanger ◽

David M.P. Holland ◽

David A. Shaw ◽

Paul M. Mayer

Keyword(s):

Transition State ◽

Ab Initio Calculations ◽

Ab Initio ◽

Bond Cleavage ◽

Cleavage Reaction ◽

Nitrite Ion ◽

Methyl Nitrite ◽

Bond Cleavage Reaction ◽

Entropy Of Activation ◽

Lower Entropy

Threshold photoelectron–photoion coincidence (TPEPICO) spectroscopy has been employed to investigate the competition between bond cleavage and rearrangement reactions in the dissociation of ionized nitromethane, 1. Modeling TPEPICO breakdown diagrams with a combination of RRKM theory and ab initio calculations at the G3 level of theory allowed the derivation of the activation energy for the isomerisation of 1 to ionized methyl nitrite, 2, 82 kJ mol−1. In addition, evidence was found for a transition state switch in the bond cleavage reaction in 1 leading to CH3• + NO2+. As internal energy increases, the effective transition state for this reaction becomes tighter (i.e. is characterized by a lower entropy of activation, Δ‡S). Fitted thresholds for NO+ and CH2OHO+ ions, originating from the isomeric methyl nitrite ion, are consistent with G3 level ab initio calculations.

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