1Z8G

Crystal structure of the extracellular region of the transmembrane serine protease hepsin with covalently bound preferred substrate.


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.55 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.217 
  • R-Value Work: 0.196 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.198 

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Literature

Hepatocyte growth factor is a preferred in vitro substrate for human hepsin, a membrane-anchored serine protease implicated in prostate and ovarian cancers

Herter, S.Piper, D.E.Aaron, W.Gabriele, T.Cutler, G.Cao, P.Bhatt, A.S.Choe, Y.Craik, C.S.Walker, N.Meininger, D.Hoey, T.Austin, R.J.

(2005) Biochem J 390: 125-136

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20041955
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    1Z8G

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    Hepsin is a membrane-anchored, trypsin-like serine protease with prominent expression in the human liver and tumours of the prostate and ovaries. To better understand the biological functions of hepsin, we identified macromolecular substrates employing a tetrapeptide PS-SCL (positional scanning-synthetic combinatorial library) screen that rapidly determines the P1-P4 substrate specificity. Hepsin exhibited strong preference at the P1 position for arginine over lysine, and favoured threonine, leucine or asparagine at the P2, glutamine or lysine at the P3, and proline or lysine at the P4 position. The relative activity of hepsin toward individual AMC (7-amino-4-methylcoumarin)-tetrapeptides was generally consistent with the overall peptide profiling results derived from the PC-SCL screen. The most active tetrapeptide substrate Ac (acetyl)-KQLR-AMC matched with the activation cleavage site of the hepatocyte growth factor precursor sc-HGF (single-chain HGF), KQLR downward arrowVVNG (where downward arrow denotes the cleavage site), as identified by a database analysis of trypsin-like precursors. X-ray crystallographic studies with KQLR chloromethylketone showed that the KQLR peptide fits well into the substrate-binding cleft of hepsin. This hepsin-processed HGF induced c-Met receptor tyrosine phosphorylation in SKOV-3 ovarian cancer cells, indicating that the hepsin-cleaved HGF is biologically active. Activation cleavage site mutants of sc-HGF with predicted non-preferred sequences, DPGR downward arrowVVNG or KQLQ downward arrowVVNG, were not processed, illustrating that the P4-P1 residues can be important determinants for substrate specificity. In addition to finding macromolecular hepsin substrates, the extracellular inhibitors of the HGF activator, HAI-1 and HAI-2, were potent inhibitors of hepsin activity (IC50 4+/-0.2 nM and 12+/-0.5 nM respectively). Together, our findings suggest that the HGF precursor is a potential in vivo substrate for hepsin in tumours, where hepsin expression is dysregulated and may influence tumorigenesis through inappropriate activation and/or regulation of HGF receptor (c-Met) functions.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Department of Biology, Amgen San Francisco, 1120 Veterans Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
Serine protease hepsin372Homo sapiensMutation(s): 1 
Gene Names: HPNTMPRSS1
EC: 3.4.21
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Go to UniProtKB:  P05981
PHAROS:  P05981
GTEx:  ENSG00000105707 
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UniProt GroupP05981
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  • Reference Sequence

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Entity ID: 2
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
ACE-LYS-GLN-LEU-ARG-ChloromethylketoneB [auth L]6N/AMutation(s): 0 
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  • Reference Sequence
Small Molecules
Modified Residues  1 Unique
IDChains TypeFormula2D DiagramParent
AR7
Query on AR7
B [auth L]PEPTIDE-LIKEC6 H17 N4 O2ARG
Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.55 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.217 
  • R-Value Work: 0.196 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.198 
  • Space Group: P 1 21 1
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 55.705α = 90
b = 47.633β = 108.24
c = 67.791γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
DENZOdata reduction
TRUNCATEdata reduction
CNSrefinement
CCP4data scaling
CNSphasing

Structure Validation

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Entry History 

Deposition Data

Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2005-05-03
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2008-04-30
    Changes: Version format compliance
  • Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
    Changes: Atomic model, Database references, Derived calculations, Non-polymer description, Structure summary, Version format compliance
  • Version 1.3: 2012-12-12
    Changes: Other
  • Version 1.4: 2021-10-20
    Changes: Database references, Derived calculations
  • Version 1.5: 2023-08-23
    Changes: Data collection, Refinement description