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Zinc Content of Promatrilysin, Matrilysin and the Stromelysin Catalytic Domain

Zinc Content of Promatrilysin, Matrilysin and the Stromelysin Catalytic Domain

D Soler, T Nomizu, W E Brown, M Chen, Q Z Ye, H E Van Wart, D S Auld

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1994 Jun 15;201(2):917-23.

PMID: 8003031

Abstract:

Promatrilysin expressed in Escherichia coli and Chinese hamster ovary cells contains 2.36 +/- 0.19 and 2.13 +/- 0.39 moles of zinc per mole of protein, respectively, while the activated enzyme contains 2.22 +/- 0.21. The catalytic domain of stromelysin-1 expressed in E. coli contains 2.22 +/- 0.11. Thus these matrix metalloproteinases contain two metal binding sites at which zinc is bound firmly and possibly a third site at which it is bound weakly. Promatrilysin and matrilysin do not contain significant amounts of Fe, Cu, Mn, or Ni. All known matrix metalloproteinases have a sequence homologous to the zinc binding site of astacin, HExxHxxGxxH, suggesting that one of the zinc sites is catalytic in agreement with the known inhibition of these enzymes by chelators.

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