Structural highlights
Function
[PEPA_PIG] Shows particularly broad specificity; although bonds involving phenylalanine and leucine are preferred, many others are also cleaved to some extent. [API3_ASCSU] This is an inhibitor of the aspartic protease pepsin.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The three-dimensional structures of pepsin inhibitor-3 (PI-3) from Ascaris suum and of the complex between PI-3 and porcine pepsin at 1. 75 A and 2.45 A resolution, respectively, have revealed the mechanism of aspartic protease inhibition by this unique inhibitor. PI-3 has a new fold consisting of two domains, each comprising an antiparallel beta-sheet flanked by an alpha-helix. In the enzyme-inhibitor complex, the N-terminal beta-strand of PI-3 pairs with one strand of the 'active site flap' (residues 70-82) of pepsin, thus forming an eight-stranded beta-sheet that spans the two proteins. PI-3 has a novel mode of inhibition, using its N-terminal residues to occupy and therefore block the first three binding pockets in pepsin for substrate residues C-terminal to the scissile bond (S1'-S3'). The molecular structure of the pepsin-PI-3 complex suggests new avenues for the rational design of proteinaceous aspartic proteinase inhibitors.
Structural basis for the inhibition of porcine pepsin by Ascaris pepsin inhibitor-3.,Ng KK, Petersen JF, Cherney MM, Garen C, Zalatoris JJ, Rao-Naik C, Dunn BM, Martzen MR, Peanasky RJ, James MN Nat Struct Biol. 2000 Aug;7(8):653-7. PMID:10932249[1]
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References
- ↑ Ng KK, Petersen JF, Cherney MM, Garen C, Zalatoris JJ, Rao-Naik C, Dunn BM, Martzen MR, Peanasky RJ, James MN. Structural basis for the inhibition of porcine pepsin by Ascaris pepsin inhibitor-3. Nat Struct Biol. 2000 Aug;7(8):653-7. PMID:10932249 doi:10.1038/77950
