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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 260, Issue 5, 2771-2776, 03, 1985

Substrate specificity of beta-collagenase from Clostridium histolyticum

DR Steinbrink, MD Bond and HE Van Wart

The substrate specificity of beta-collagenase from Clostridium histolyticum has been investigated by measuring the rate of hydrolysis of more than 50 tri-, tetra-, penta-, and hexapeptides covering the P3 to P3' subsites of the substrate. The choice of peptides was patterned after sequences found in the alpha 1 and alpha 2 chains of type I collagen. Each peptide contained either a 2-furanacryloyl (FA) or cinnamoyl (CN) group in subsite P2 or the 4-nitrophenylalanine (Nph) residue in subsite P1. Hydrolysis of the P1-P1' bond produces an absorbance change in these chromophoric peptides that has been used to quantitate the rates of their hydrolysis under first order conditions ([S] much less than KM) from kcat/KM values have been obtained. The identity of the amino acids in all six subsites (P3-P3') markedly influences the hydrolysis rates. In general, the best substrates have Gly in subsites P3 and P1', Pro or Ala in subsite P2', and Hyp, Arg, or Ala in subsite P3'. This corresponds well with the frequency of occurrence of these residues in the Gly-X-Y triplets of collagen. In contrast, the most rapidly hydrolyzed substrates do not have residues from collagen-like sequences in subsites P2 and P1. For example, CN-Nph- Gly-Pro-Ala is the best known substrate for beta-collagenase with a kcat/KM value of 4.4 X 10(7) M-1 min-1, in spite of the fact that there is neither Pro nor Ala in P2 or Hyp nor Ala in P1. These results indicate that the previously established rules for the substrate specificity of the enzyme require modification.
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