PMID: 6405662Mar 1, 1983Paper

A new substrate for porcine pepsin possessing cryptic fluorescence properties

Analytical Biochemistry
C Deyrup, B M Dunn

Abstract

A fluorescent substrate for porcine pepsin, 50-dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulfonyl (Dns)-Ala-Ala-Phe-Phe-3-[4-(N-CH3)-pyridyl]propyl-1-oxy ester has been synthesized. It is stable, soluble from pH 1 to 7, and is readily hydrolyzed by pepsin with values of 288 (+/- 40) s-1 for kcat, 0.039 mM (+/- 0.005) for Km, and 7510 s-1 mM-1 (+/- 500) for kcat/Km in sodium formate, pH 3.1. Kinetic studies were carried out by following the increased fluorescence (300-nm excitation, 525-nm emission) as hydrolysis occurred. The products of hydrolysis were identified and established that the peptide bond between the phenylalanine residues is cleaved by pepsin. The inhibition of pepsin catalysis by pepsinogen (1-12) activation peptide was studied in order to compare the inhibition of the reaction of pepsin with Dns-Ala-Ala-Phe-Phe-OP4P-CH3+ with that obtained by the standard milk-clotting assay. The inhibition results were comparable. Dns-Ala-Ala-Phe-Phe-OP4P-CH3+ should be a valuable tool for studies of pepsin because of its solubility over an extended pH range, its excellent turnover rate, and the ease with which the hydrolysis can be followed.

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