TY - JOUR
T1 - A mutant equipped with a regenerated disulphide for the missing His loop of a serine protease zymogen in the horseshoe crab coagulation cascade
AU - Yamashita, Keisuke
AU - Takeshita, Naoki
AU - Arita, Aina
AU - Shibata, Toshio
AU - Kobayashi, Yuki
AU - Kawabata, Shun Ichiro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Japanese Biochemical Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - The lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-triggered coagulation cascade in horseshoe crabs is composed of three zymogens belonging to the trypsinogen family: prochelicerase C, prochelicerase B (proB) and the proclotting enzyme (proCE). Trypsinogen-family members contain three conserved disulphides located around the active site. While it is known that proB evolutionarily lost one of the disulphides, the His-loop disulphide, the roles of the missing His-loop disulphide in proB remain unknown. Here, we prepared a proB mutant, named proB-murasame, equipped with a regenerated His-loop disulphide. The activation rate by upstream α-chelicerase C for proB-murasame was indistinguishable from that for wild-type (WT) proB. The resulting protease chelicerase B-murasame exhibited an 8-fold higher kcat value for downstream proCE than WT chelicerase B, whereas the Km value of chelicerase B-murasame was equivalent to that of WT chelicerase B. WT serpins-1, -2 and -3, identified as scavengers for the cascade, had no reactivity against WT chelicerase B, whereas chelicerase B-murasame was inhibited by WT serpin-2, suggesting that WT chelicerae B may trigger as-yet-unsolved phenomena after performing its duty in the cascade. The reconstituted LPS-triggered cascade containing proB-murasame exhibited ∼5-fold higher CE production than that containing WT proB. ProB-murasame might be used as a high value-adding reagent for LPS detection.
AB - The lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-triggered coagulation cascade in horseshoe crabs is composed of three zymogens belonging to the trypsinogen family: prochelicerase C, prochelicerase B (proB) and the proclotting enzyme (proCE). Trypsinogen-family members contain three conserved disulphides located around the active site. While it is known that proB evolutionarily lost one of the disulphides, the His-loop disulphide, the roles of the missing His-loop disulphide in proB remain unknown. Here, we prepared a proB mutant, named proB-murasame, equipped with a regenerated His-loop disulphide. The activation rate by upstream α-chelicerase C for proB-murasame was indistinguishable from that for wild-type (WT) proB. The resulting protease chelicerase B-murasame exhibited an 8-fold higher kcat value for downstream proCE than WT chelicerase B, whereas the Km value of chelicerase B-murasame was equivalent to that of WT chelicerase B. WT serpins-1, -2 and -3, identified as scavengers for the cascade, had no reactivity against WT chelicerase B, whereas chelicerase B-murasame was inhibited by WT serpin-2, suggesting that WT chelicerae B may trigger as-yet-unsolved phenomena after performing its duty in the cascade. The reconstituted LPS-triggered cascade containing proB-murasame exhibited ∼5-fold higher CE production than that containing WT proB. ProB-murasame might be used as a high value-adding reagent for LPS detection.
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U2 - 10.1093/jb/mvab064
DO - 10.1093/jb/mvab064
M3 - Article
C2 - 34037771
AN - SCOPUS:85122345567
SN - 0021-924X
VL - 170
SP - 489
EP - 500
JO - Journal of biochemistry
JF - Journal of biochemistry
IS - 4
ER -