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  • Title: The reactive sites of proteinase inhibitors from Erythrina seeds.
    Author: Joubert FJ, Merrifield EH, Dowdle EB.
    Journal: Int J Biochem; 1987; 19(7):601-6. PubMed ID: 3114019.
    Abstract:
    Although the Kunitz-type proteinase inhibitors from the seeds of various Erythrina species have similar molecular weights (approximately 20,000), and share many other chemical characteristics, they could nevertheless be divided into three groups on the basis of their relative abilities to inhibit chymotrypsin, trypsin and tissue plasminogen activator. Group a inhibitors were relatively specific for chymotrypsin; they were poor inhibitors of trypsin and had no apparent effect upon tissue plasminogen activator. Group b proteins inhibited trypsin strongly and chymotrypsin slightly less effectively. They had no effect upon t-PA. Group c inhibitors inhibited trypsin, chymotrypsin and t-PA. Analysis of the amino acid composition of the three groups of inhibitors revealed major differences in alanine content. Minor differences in the content of most other amino acids were also noticed. Group b and group c inhibitors had, in most cases, the same reactive sites (Arg-Ser). The sequences neighbouring the reactive sites showed a significant degree of homology. Chemical modification of arginine in proteinase inhibitors from the seeds of E. latissima and soybeans using 1-2-cyclohexanedione confirmed the presence or absence of arginine in the reactive sites.
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