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Studies on secreted...
Studies on secreted cysteine proteases of Streptococcus pyogenes : IdeS and SpeB
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- Vindebro, Reine, 1983- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för molekylärbiologi (Medicinska fakulteten),Ulrich von Pawel-Rammingen
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- von Pawel-Rammingen, Ulrich, Dr (preses)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för molekylärbiologi (Medicinska fakulteten)
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- Knecht, Wolfgang, Dr (opponent)
- Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- ISBN 9789176010488
- Umeå : Umeå Universitet, 2014
- Engelska 49 s.
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Serie: Umeå University medical dissertations, 0346-6612 ; 1646
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Abstract
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- The pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes is a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality. Most of the work in this thesis is focused on streptococcal virulence factor IdeS, but the thesis also features work on SpeB, another streptococcal virulence factor. Both IdeS and SpeB are secreted cysteine proteases and both have previously been shown to degrade human IgG. IgG is the only known substrate for IdeS while SpeB is a more promiscuous protease with a larger number of identified substrates. A significant part of the data presented in this thesis is the result of designing and optimizing methods to detect and accurately measure the proteolytic degradation of IgG. Methods aimed at measuring the binding interactions between enzyme and substrate have also been frequently utilized. I show that IdeS is a monomeric protease, as opposed to previously published data that suggested it to be dimeric. IdeS cleaves the two heavy chains of IgG in a two-step reaction and I demonstrate that the first cleavage is magnitudes faster than the second one. This means that IdeS is a more efficient enzyme than previously thought. The difference in rate cannot completely be explained by a loss of affinity between IdeS and IgG after the cleavage of the first heavy chain. The velocity of IdeS is further increased by the presence of human Cystatin C, via an unknown mechanism. Cystatin C is normally a protease inhibitor and it having an opposite effect is puzzling.The synthesis and evaluation of novel inhibitors are also described. Peptide analogues mimicking the sequence surrounding the scissile bond on IgG - with an amino acid replaced with a more rigid motif - act as specific, but low-affinity, inhibitors of IdeS. The peptide analogues’ inhibitory capacity for SpeB and papain was also assayed.When it comes to SpeB, I show that it does not have IgG as a substrate under physiological conditions, in contrast to what was previously thought. This thesis does not only present findings on the IgG degrading capacity of IdeS and SpeB but also include data on fundamental enzymatic properties for these proteases.
Ämnesord
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Group A Streptococci
- GAS
- virulence factor
- IdeS
- SpeB
- cysteine protease
- protease inhibitor
- IgG
- immune evasion
- molekylär bioteknik (inst f molekylärbiologi)
- molecular biotechnology (dept of molecular biology)
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