A bacterial expression system for the inhibitory N-terminal domain of human tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases 1 (N-TIMP-1) (Huang, W., Suzuki, K., Nagase, H., Arumugam, S., Van Doren, S. R., and Brew, K. (1996) FEBS Lett. 384, 155–161) has been used to produce 20 single- and double-site mutants that probe the roles of different residues in its inhibitory action on metalloproteinases. Mutations that produce the largest increases in theK i for a C-terminally truncated form of stromelysin 1, MMP-3(ΔC), but do not disturb the conformation involve substitutions of residues that are located in a ridge that is centered around the disulfide bond between Cys1 and Cys70. Specific residues that have a large influence on activity include Cys1, Thr2, Met66, Val69, and Cys70. Of the mutations introduced, the greatest functional disturbances, reflected inK i increases of 2–4 orders of magnitude, are generated by changes that disrupt the Cys1–Cys70 disulfide bond and by substitution of Ala for Thr2. Most mutations that perturb the interaction with MMP-3 have parallel effects on the affinity of N-TIMP-1 for MMP-1 (interstitial collagenase) and MMP-2 (gelatinase A). However, the Thr2 to Ala mutation produces an inhibitor that is 17-fold more effective against MMP-3 than MMP-1, suggesting that it is feasible to engineer TIMP-1 variants that are more specifically targeted to selected matrix metalloproteinases. The reactive site identified by these studies is a structurally constrained but elongated region of TIMP that can fit the matrix metalloproteinase substrate-binding site.
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1997
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Journal of Biological Chemistry
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1997-08-29
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Biology, Medicine, Chemistry
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