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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 40, 28063-28066, October 1, 1999

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The C-terminal Sequence Encodes Function in Serine Proteases

From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110

Serine proteases of the chymotrypsin family have maintained a common fold over an evolutionary span of more than one billion years. Notwithstanding modest changes in sequence, this class of enzymes has developed a wide variety of substrate specificities and important biological functions. Remarkably, the C-terminal portion of the sequence in the protease domain accounts fully for this functional diversity. This portion is often encoded by a single exon and contains most of the residues forming the contact surface in the active site for the P1-P3 residues of the substrate, as well as domains responsible for the modulation of catalytic activity. The evolution of serine proteases was therefore driven by optimization of contacts made with the unprimed subsites of the substrate and targeted a relatively short portion of the sequence toward the C-terminal end. The dominant role of the C-terminal sequence should facilitate the identification of function in newly discovered genes belonging to this class of enzymes.

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