• J. Biol. Chem. · Dec 1984

    Comparative Study

    Inhibition of the serine proteases leukocyte elastase, pancreatic elastase, cathepsin G, and chymotrypsin by peptide boronic acids.

    • C A Kettner and A B Shenvi.
    • J. Biol. Chem. 1984 Dec 25; 259 (24): 15106-14.

    AbstractThree alpha-aminoboronic acid-containing analogs of good peptide substrates for serine proteases were synthesized, MeO-Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-boro-Phe-OH, MeO-Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-boro-Ala-OH, and MeO-Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-boro-Val-OH. They were effective inhibitors of chymotrypsin, cathepsin G, and both leukocyte and pancreatic elastase at nanomolar concentrations (0.10-20 nM). Except for cathepsin G, inhibition was not simply competitive, but showed kinetic properties corresponding to the mechanism for slow-binding inhibition, i.e. E + I in equilibrium EI in equilibrium EI*, where EI and EI* are enzyme-inhibitor complexes and EI* is more stable than EI. This type of inhibition has not been observed previously for synthetic inhibitors or serine proteases and in this study it was observed only for peptide boronic acids which satisfy the primary specificity requirements of the protease.

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