Substrate kringle-mediated catalysis by the streptokinase-plasmin activator complex: Critical contribution of kringle-4 revealed by the mutagenesis approaches

Joshi, Kishore K. and Nanda, Jagpreet S and Kumar, Prakash and Sahni, Girish (2012) Substrate kringle-mediated catalysis by the streptokinase-plasmin activator complex: Critical contribution of kringle-4 revealed by the mutagenesis approaches. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins & Proteomics, 1824 (2). pp. 326-333. ISSN 15709639

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Abstract

Streptokinase (SK) is a protein co-factor with a potent capability for human plasminogen (HPG) activation. Our previous studies [1] have indicated a major role of long-range protein–protein contacts between the three domains (alpha, beta, and gamma) of SK and the multi-domain HPG substrate (K1–K5CD). To further explore this phenomenon, we prepared truncated derivatives of HPG with progressive removal of kringle domains, like K5CD, K4K5CD, K3–K5CD (K3K4K5CD), K2–K5CD (K2K3K4K5CD) and K1–K5CD (K1K2K3K4K5CD). While urokinase (uPA) cleaved the scissile peptide in the isolated catalytic domain (μPG) with nearly the same rate as with full-length HPG, SK-plasmin showed only 1–2% activity, revealing mutually distinct mechanisms of HPG catalysis between the eukaryotic and prokaryotic activators. Remarkably, with SK.HPN (plasmin), the ‘addition’ of both kringles 4 and 5 onto the catalytic domain showed catalytic rates comparable to full length HPG, thus identifying the dependency of the “long-range” enzyme–substrate interactions onto these two CD-proximal domains. Further, chimeric variants of K5CD were generated by swapping the kringle domains of HPG with those of uPA and TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), separately. Surprisingly, although native-like catalytic turnover rates were retained when either K1, K2 or K4 of HPG was substituted at the K5 position in K5CD, these were invariably lost once substituted with the evolutionarily more distant TPA- and uPA-derived kringles. The present results unveil a novel mechanism of SK.HPN action in which augmented catalysis occurs through enzyme–substrate interactions centered on regions in substrate HPG (kringles 4 and 5) that are spatially distant from the scissile peptide bond.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Fibrinolytic system; Pichia pastoris; Plasminogen; Plasminogen activator; Streptokinase; Catalysis
Subjects:	Q Science > QD Chemistry
Depositing User:	Dr. K.P.S.Sengar
Date Deposited:	21 Mar 2012 16:12
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2015 09:12
URI:	http://crdd.osdd.net/open/id/eprint/1131

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