Relationship between endo- and exopeptidases in a processing enzyme system: activation of an endoprotease by the aminopeptidase B-like activity in somatostatin-28 convertase.

AUTOR(ES)

Gomez, S

RESUMO

The somatostatin-28 convertase activity involved in vitro in the processing of somatostatin-28 into the neuropeptides somatostatin-28-(1-12) and somatostatin-14 is composed of an endoprotease and a basic aminopeptidase. We report herein on the purification to apparent homogeneity of these two constituents and on their functional interrelationship. In particular we observed that after various physicochemical treatments, the 90-kDa endoprotease activity was recovered both at this molecular mass and as a 45-kDa entity. Moreover, the production of [Arg-2,Lys-1]somatostatin-14 from somatostatin-28 by the action of the endoprotease was activated in a cooperative manner by the aminopeptidase B-like enzyme. A 10-fold activation occurred when the exopeptidase was inhibited by 6.5 mM diisopropyl fluorophosphate and allowed the determination of a half-maximal activation constant (K1/2) of approximately equal to 13 nM. These observations strongly suggest that both enzymes act in a concerted manner in vitro and that they may form a complex in vivo.

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