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Fighting Celiac Disease: Improvement of pH Stability of Cathepsin L In Vitro by Computational Designстатья
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Дата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 15 февраля 2024 г.
- Авторы: Chugunov Anton O., Dvoryakova E.A., Dyuzheva Maria A., Simonyan Tatyana R., Tereshchenkova V.F., Filippova I.Yu, Efremov Roman G., Elpidina Elena N.
- Журнал: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
- Том: 24
- Номер: 15
- Год издания: 2023
- Издательство: MDPI
- Местоположение издательства: Basel, Switzerland
- Номер статьи: 12369
- DOI: 10.3390/ijms241512369
- Аннотация: Roughly 1% of the global population is susceptible to celiac disease (CD)—inheritable autoimmune inflammation of the small intestine caused by intolerance to gliadin proteins present in wheat, rye, and barley grains, and called gluten in wheat. Classical treatment is a life-long gluten-free diet, which is constraining and costly. An alternative approach is based upon the development and oral reception of effective peptidases that degrade in the stomach immunogenic proline- and glutamine-rich gliadin peptides, which are the cause of the severe reaction in the intestine. In previous research, we have established that the major digestive peptidase of an insect Tribolium castaneum—cathepsin L—hydrolyzes immunogenic prolamins after Gln residues but is unstable in the extremely acidic environment (pH 2–4) of the human stomach and cannot be used as a digestive aid. In this work, using molecular dynamics simulations, we discover the probable cause of the pH instability of cathepsin L—loss of the catalytically competent rotameric state of one of the active site residues, His 275. To “fix” the correct orientation of this residue, we designed a V277A mutant variant, which extends the range of stability of the peptidase in the acidic environment while retaining most of its activity. We suggest this protein as a lead glutenase for the development of oral medical preparation that fights CD and gluten intolerance in susceptible people.
- Добавил в систему: Фурсова Полина Викторовна