Abstract
Trypsin-like serine proteases play essential roles in diverse physiological processes such as hemostasis, apoptosis, signal transduction, reproduction, immune response, matrix remodeling, development, and differentiation. All of these proteases share an intriguing activation mechanism that involves the transition of an unfolded domain (activation domain) of the zymogen to a folded one in the active enzyme. During this conformational change, activation domain segments move around highly conserved glycine hinges. In the present study, hinge glycines were replaced by alanine residues via site directed mutagenesis. The effects of these mutations on the interconversion of the zymogen-like and active conformations as well as on catalytic activity were studied. Mutant trypsins showed zymogen-like structures to varying extents characterized by increased flexibility of some activation domain segments, a more accessible N-terminus and a deformed substrate binding site. Our results suggest that the trypsinogen to trypsin transition is hindered by the mutations, which results in a shift of the equilibrium between the inactive zymogen-like and active enzyme conformations toward the inactive state. Our data also showed, however, that the ina...Continue Reading
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