Production of fully active recombinant murine granzyme B in yeast.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
C T PhamT J Ley

Abstract

Granzyme B (GzmB) is a neutral serine protease found in cytotoxic lymphocytes; this enzyme is critically involved in delivering the rapid apoptotic signal to susceptible target cells. GzmB has been difficult to study and has not yet been produced in non-mammalian systems because of the complex processing events that are thought to be required for its activation. In this report, we have successfully produced fully active, soluble recombinant GzmB (rGzmB) in a yeast-based system by fusing GzmB cDNA in frame with yeast alpha-factor cDNA, using the yeast KEX2 signal peptidase to release the processed enzyme into the supernatant of yeast cultures. We expressed the proenzyme form of GzmB as well and determined that pro-GzmB is efficiently converted to its active form by the cysteine proteinase dipeptidyl peptidase I. The fully processed enzyme was able to hydrolyze the synthetic substrate N-t-butyloxycarbonyl-L-alanyl-L-alanyl-L-aspartyl (Boc-Ala-Ala-Asp) thiobenzyl ester with a kcat of 17 s-1 and catalytic efficiency kcat/Km of 181,237 M-1 S-1; the recombinant enzyme is therefore at least twice as active as purified native GzmB. In addition, the recombinant enzyme hydrolyzes Boc-Ala-Ala-Met thiobenzyl ester with a kcat of 3.2 S-1 an...Continue Reading

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