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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 11, 7153-7156, March 12, 1999

Distinct Contributions of Residue 192 to the Specificity of Coagulation and Fibrinolytic Serine Proteases

Yan-Liang Zhang^§, Laurence Hervio, Leif Strandberg, and Edwin L. Madison^§

From the  Department of Vascular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037 and the ^§ Department of Molecular Biology, Corvas International, San Diego, California 92121

Archetypal members of the chymotrypsin family of serine proteases, such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, and elastase, exhibit relatively broad substrate specificity. However, the successful development of efficient proteolytic cascades, such as the blood coagulation and fibrinolytic systems, required the evolution of proteases that displayed restricted specificity. Tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), for example, possesses exquisitely stringent substrate specificity, and the molecular basis of this important biochemical property of t-PA remains obscure. Previous investigations of related serine proteases, which participate in the blood coagulation cascade, have focused attention on the residue that occupies position 192 (chymotrypsin numbering system), which plays a pivotal role in determining both the inhibitor and substrate specificity of these enzymes. Consequently, we created and characterized the kinetic properties of new variants of t-PA that contained point mutations at position 192. These studies demonstrated that, unlike in coagulation serine proteases, Gln-192 does not contribute significantly to the substrate or inhibitor specificity of t-PA in physiologically relevant reactions. Replacement of Gln-192 with a glutamic acid residue did, however, decrease the catalytic efficiency of mature, two-chain t-PA toward plasminogen in the absence of a fibrin co-factor.

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