PMID: 6401726Feb 10, 1983Paper

The resistance to tryptic hydrolysis of peptide bonds adjacent to N epsilon,N-dimethyllysyl residues.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
L Poncz, D G Dearborn

Abstract

A peptide from sperm whale myoglobin, residues 132-153, and a chromogenic substrate, H-D-valyl-L-leucyl-L-lysyl-p-nitroanilide diacetate, were selected to investigate the susceptibility of peptide bonds adjacent to N epsilon,N-dimethyllysyl residues to tryptic hydrolysis. The peptides were exhaustively methylated using formaldehyde and sodium cyanoborohydride (N. Jentoft and D. G. Dearborn (1979) J. Biol. Chem. 254, 4359-4365). Unmodified and methylated peptides were digested with trypsin or submaxillary protease, an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of only arginyl bonds in proteins. Trypsin catalyzed the hydrolysis of the methylated apomyoglobin peptide only at the single arginyl residue and not at any of the four N epsilon,N-dimethyllysyl residues. Trypsin also failed to catalyze the hydrolysis of reductively methylated H-D-valyl-L-leucyl-L-lysyl-p-nitroanilide. Even a 17-fold molar excess of the methylated substrate did not appear to alter the rate of tryptic hydrolysis of the unmodified substrate. These results are discussed with regard to the interactions of substrates within the specificity site of trypsin.

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