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Thioamide-Based Fluorescent Protease Sensors

[Image: see text] Thioamide quenchers can be paired with compact fluorophores to design “turn-on” fluorescent protease substrates. We have used this method to study a variety of serine-, cysteine-, carboxyl-, and metallo-proteases, including trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin, thermolysin, papain, and ca...

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Autores principales: Goldberg, Jacob M., Chen, Xing, Meinhardt, Nataline, Greenbaum, Doron C., Petersson, E. James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja412297x
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Sumario:[Image: see text] Thioamide quenchers can be paired with compact fluorophores to design “turn-on” fluorescent protease substrates. We have used this method to study a variety of serine-, cysteine-, carboxyl-, and metallo-proteases, including trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin, thermolysin, papain, and calpain. Since thioamides quench some fluorophores red-shifted from those naturally occurring in proteins, this technique can be used for real time monitoring of protease activity in crude preparations of virtually any protease. We demonstrate the value of this method in three model applications: (1) characterization of papain enzyme kinetics using rapid-mixing experiments, (2) selective monitoring of cleavage at a single site in a peptide with multiple proteolytic sites, and (3) analysis of the specificity of an inhibitor of calpain in cell lysates.