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Human lysosomal beta-galactosidase-cathepsin A complex: definition of the beta-galactosidase-binding interface on cathepsin A.

Human lysosomal beta-galactosidase is organized as a 680-kDa complex with cathepsin A (also named carboxypeptidase L and protective protein), which is necessary to protect beta-galactosidase from intralysosomal proteolysis. To understand the molecular mechanism of beta-galactosidase protection by cathepsin A, we defined the structural organization of their complex including the beta-galactosidase-binding interface on cathepsin A. Radiation inactivation analysis suggested the existence of a 168-kDa structural subunit of the complex containing both beta-galactosidase and cathepsin A. Chemical cross-linking of the complex confirmed the existence of this subunit and showed that it is composed of one cathepsin A dimer and one beta-galactosidase monomer. The modeling of the cathepsin A dimer tertiary structure based on atomic coordinates of a wheat carboxypeptidase suggested a putative beta-galactosidase-binding cavity formed by the association of two cathepsin A monomers. According to this model two exposed loops of cathepsin A bordering the cavity were chosen as part of a putative beta-galactosidase-binding interface. Synthetic peptides corresponding to these loops were found both to dissociate the complex and to inhibit its in vitro reconstitution from purified cathepsin A and beta-galactosidase. The defined location of the GAL monomer in the complex with 35% of its surface covered by the CathA dimer may explain the stabilizing effect of CathA on GAL in lysosome.[1]

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  1. Human lysosomal beta-galactosidase-cathepsin A complex: definition of the beta-galactosidase-binding interface on cathepsin A. Pshezhetsky, A.V., Elsliger, M.A., Vinogradova, M.V., Potier, M. Biochemistry (1995) [Pubmed]
 
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