Baculovirus-mediated expression of truncated modular fragments from the catalytic region of human complement serine protease C1s. Evidence for the involvement of both complement control protein modules in the recognition of the C4 protein substrate.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
V RossiGérard J Arlaud

Abstract

C1s is the modular serine protease responsible for cleavage of C4 and C2, the protein substrates of the first component of complement. Its catalytic region (gamma-B) comprises two complement control protein (CCP) modules, a short activation peptide (ap), and a serine protease domain (SP). A baculovirus-mediated expression system was used to produce recombinant truncated fragments from this region, deleted either from the first CCP module (CCP2-ap-SP) or from both CCP modules (ap-SP). The aglycosylated fragment CCP2-ap-SPag was also expressed by using tunicamycin. The fragments were produced at yields of 0.6-3 mg/liter of culture, isolated, and characterized chemically and then tested functionally by comparison with intact C1s and its proteolytic gamma-B fragment. All recombinant fragments were expressed in a proenzyme form and cleaved by C1r to generate active enzymes expressing esterolytic activity and reactivity toward C1 inhibitor comparable to those of intact C1s. Likewise, the activated fragments gamma-B, CCP2-ap-SP, and ap-SP retained C1s ability to cleave C2 in the fluid phase. In contrast, whereas fragment gamma-B cleaved C4 as efficiently as C1s, the C4-cleaving activity of CCP2-ap-SP was greatly reduced (about 70-fold...Continue Reading

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