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Specific and Efficient Peptide Substrates for Assaying the Proteolytic Activity of Prostate-specific Antigen

Samuel R. Denmeade, Wei Lou, Janita Lövgren, Johan Malm, Hans Lilja and John T. Isaacs
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DOI:  Published November 1997
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Abstract

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a serine protease secreted by both normal prostate glandular cells and prostate cancer cells. The major proteolytic substrates for PSA are the gel-forming proteins in semen, semenogelin (Sg) I and II. On the basis of the PSA cleavage map for Sg I and II, a series of small peptides (i.e., ≤ 7 amino acids) was synthesized and coupled at the COOH terminus to 7-amino-4-methyl coumarin. Using these fluorescently tagged substrates, Kms and kcats were determined for PSA hydrolysis, and the substrates were also tested for activity against a panel of purified proteases. Previously, a variety of chymotrypsin substrates have been used to assay the enzymatic activity of PSA. The present studies have identified a peptide sequence with a high degree of specificity for PSA (i.e., no detectable hydrolysis by chymotrypsin) and improved Kms and kcars over previously used substrates. On the basis of these parameters, the best peptide substrate for PSA has the amino acid sequence HSSKLQ. Using PC-82 human prostate cancer xenografts and human prostate tissues, this PSA substrate was used to document that prostate cancer cells secrete enzymatically active PSA into the extracellular fluid but that once in the blood, PSA is not enzymatically active. On the basis of this information, it should be possible to use the HSSKLQ peptide as a carrier to target peptide-coupled prodrugs for selective activation within sites of PSA-secreting, metastatic prostate cancer cells and not within the blood or other nonprostatic normal tissues.

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  • ↵1 The work reported was supported by a CapCure Award (to J. T. I.).

  • ↵2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 422 North Bond Street, Baltimore, MD 21231-1001.

  • Received April 24, 1997.
  • Accepted September 3, 1997.
  • ©1997 American Association for Cancer Research.
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Specific and Efficient Peptide Substrates for Assaying the Proteolytic Activity of Prostate-specific Antigen
Samuel R. Denmeade, Wei Lou, Janita Lövgren, Johan Malm, Hans Lilja and John T. Isaacs
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Specific and Efficient Peptide Substrates for Assaying the Proteolytic Activity of Prostate-specific Antigen
Samuel R. Denmeade, Wei Lou, Janita Lövgren, Johan Malm, Hans Lilja and John T. Isaacs
Cancer Res November 1 1997 (57) (21) 4924-4930;
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