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Wu C, Cook R, Wu P, Srikumar N, Chee E, Sawyer WS, Wang H, Hazen M, Hotzel I, N'Diaye EN, Ding N, Liu Y, Tran JC, Ye Z. Using a peptide-based mass spectrometry approach to quantitate proteolysis of an intact heterogeneous procollagen substrate by BMP1 for antagonistic antibody screening. Anal Bioanal Chem 2022; 414:6601-6610. [PMID: 35821276 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-022-04220-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Revised: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
Abstract
Proteases are critical proteins involved in cleaving substrates that may impact biological pathways, cellular processes, or disease progression. In the biopharmaceutical industry, modulating the levels of protease activity is an important strategy for mitigating many types of diseases. While a variety of analytical tools exist for characterizing substrate cleavages, in vitro functional screening for antibody inhibitors of protease activity using physiologically relevant intact protein substrates remains challenging. In addition, detecting such large protein substrates with high heterogeneity using high-throughput mass spectrometry screening has rarely been reported in the literature with concerns for assay robustness and sensitivity. In this study, we established a peptide-based in vitro functional screening assay for antibody inhibitors of mouse bone morphogenic protein 1 (mBMP1) metalloprotease using a heterogeneous recombinant 66-kDa mouse Procollagen I alpha 1 chain (mProcollagen) substrate. We compared several analytical tools including capillary gel electrophoresis Western blot (CE-Western blot), as well as both intact protein and peptide-based mass spectrometry (MS) to quantitate the mBMP1 proteolytic activity and its inhibition by antibodies using this heterogeneous mProcollagen substrate. We concluded that the peptide-based mass spectrometry screening assay was the most suitable approach in terms of throughput, sensitivity, and assay robustness. We then optimized our mBMP1 proteolysis reaction after characterizing the enzyme kinetics using the peptide-based MS assay. This assay resulted in Z' values ranging from 0.6 to 0.8 from the screening campaign. Among over 1200 antibodies screened, IC50 characterization was performed on the top candidate hits, which showed partial or complete inhibitory activities against mBMP1.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cong Wu
- Department of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Department of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Morphic Therapeutic, Waltham, MA, USA
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- Department of Antibody Engineering, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Antibody Engineering, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Discovery Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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Lagoutte P, Bettler E, Vadon-Le Goff S, Moali C. Procollagen C-proteinase enhancer-1 (PCPE-1), a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for fibrosis. Matrix Biol Plus 2021; 11:100062. [PMID: 34435180 PMCID: PMC8377038 DOI: 10.1016/j.mbplus.2021.100062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Revised: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The correct balance between collagen synthesis and degradation is essential for almost every aspect of life, from development to healthy aging, reproduction and wound healing. When this balance is compromised by external or internal stress signals, it very often leads to disease as is the case in fibrotic conditions. Fibrosis occurs in the context of defective tissue repair and is characterized by the excessive, aberrant and debilitating deposition of fibril-forming collagens. Therefore, the numerous proteins involved in the biosynthesis of fibrillar collagens represent a potential and still underexploited source of therapeutic targets to prevent fibrosis. One such target is procollagen C-proteinase enhancer-1 (PCPE-1) which has the unique ability to accelerate procollagen maturation by BMP-1/tolloid-like proteinases (BTPs) and contributes to trigger collagen fibrillogenesis, without interfering with other BTP functions or the activities of other extracellular metalloproteinases. This role is achieved through a fine-tuned mechanism of action that is close to being elucidated and offers promising perspectives for drug design. Finally, the in vivo data accumulated in recent years also confirm that PCPE-1 overexpression is a general feature and early marker of fibrosis. In this review, we describe the results which presently support the driving role of PCPE-1 in fibrosis and discuss the questions that remain to be solved to validate its use as a biomarker or therapeutic target.
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Key Words
- ADAMTS, a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs
- AS, aortic valve stenosis
- BMP, bone morphogenetic protein
- Biomarker
- CKD, chronic kidney disease
- CP, C-propeptide
- CUB, complement, Uegf, BMP-1
- CVD, cardiovascular disease
- Collagen
- DMD, Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- ECM, extracellular matrix
- EGF, epidermal growth factor
- ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
- Fibrillogenesis
- Fibrosis
- HDL, high-density lipoprotein
- HSC, hepatic stellate cell
- HTS, hypertrophic scar
- IPF, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- LDL, low-density lipoprotein
- MI, myocardial infarction
- MMP, matrix metalloproteinase
- NASH, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
- NTR, netrin
- OPMD, oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
- PABPN1, poly(A)-binding protein nuclear 1
- PCP, procollagen C-proteinase
- PCPE, procollagen C-proteinase enhancer
- PNP, procollagen N-proteinase
- Proteolysis
- SPC, subtilisin proprotein convertase
- TGF-β, transforming growth-factor β
- TIMP, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases
- TSPN, thrombospondin-like N-terminal
- Therapeutic target
- eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate
- mTLD, mammalian tolloid
- mTLL, mammalian tolloid-like
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- Priscillia Lagoutte
- University of Lyon, CNRS, Tissue Biology and Therapeutic Engineering Laboratory, LBTI, UMR5305, F-69367 Lyon, France
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- University of Lyon, CNRS, Tissue Biology and Therapeutic Engineering Laboratory, LBTI, UMR5305, F-69367 Lyon, France
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- University of Lyon, CNRS, Tissue Biology and Therapeutic Engineering Laboratory, LBTI, UMR5305, F-69367 Lyon, France
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- University of Lyon, CNRS, Tissue Biology and Therapeutic Engineering Laboratory, LBTI, UMR5305, F-69367 Lyon, France
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Roles of the procollagen C-propeptides in health and disease. Essays Biochem 2019; 63:313-323. [DOI: 10.1042/ebc20180049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2019] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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AbstractThe procollagen C-propeptides of the fibrillar collagens play key roles in the intracellular assembly of procollagen molecules from their constituent polypeptides chains, and in the extracellular assembly of collagen molecules into fibrils. Here we review recent advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling C-propeptide trimerization which have revealed the importance of inter-chain disulphide bonding and a small number of charged amino acids in the stability and specificity of different types of chain association. We also show how the crystal structure of the complex between the C-propeptide trimer of procollagen III and the active fragment of procollagen C-proteinase enhancer-1 leads to a detailed model for accelerating release of the C-propeptides from procollagen by bone morphogenetic protein-1 and related proteinases. We then discuss the effects of disease-related missense mutations in the C-propeptides in relation to the sites of these mutations in the three-dimensional structure. While in general there is a good correlation between disease severity and structure-based predictions, there are notable exceptions, suggesting new interactions involving the C-propeptides yet to be characterized. Mutations affecting proteolytic release of the C-propeptides from procollagen are discussed in detail. Finally, the roles of recently discovered interaction partners for the C-propeptides are considered during fibril assembly and cross-linking.
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Pulido D, Sharma U, Vadon-Le Goff S, Hussain SA, Cordes S, Mariano N, Bettler E, Moali C, Aghajari N, Hohenester E, Hulmes DJS. Structural Basis for the Acceleration of Procollagen Processing by Procollagen C-Proteinase Enhancer-1. Structure 2018; 26:1384-1392.e3. [PMID: 30078642 PMCID: PMC6372009 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2018.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Revised: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
Procollagen C-proteinase enhancer-1 (PCPE-1) is a secreted protein that specifically accelerates proteolytic release of the C-propeptides from fibrillar procollagens, a crucial step in fibril assembly. As such, it is a potential therapeutic target to improve tissue repair and prevent fibrosis, a major cause of mortality worldwide. Here we present the crystal structure of the active CUB1CUB2 fragment of PCPE-1 bound to the C-propeptide trimer of procollagen III (CPIII). This shows that the two CUB domains bind to two different chains of CPIII and that the N-terminal region of one CPIII chain, close to the proteolytic cleavage site, lies in the cleft between CUB1 and CUB2. This suggests that enhancing activity involves unraveling of this chain from the rest of the trimer, thus facilitating the action of the proteinase involved. Support for this hypothesis comes from site-directed mutagenesis, enzyme assays, binding studies, and molecular modeling. The crystal structure of PCPE-1 bound to the C-propeptides has been determined The N terminus of one propeptide chain binds to the CUB1CUB2 fragment of PCPE-1 PCPE-1 seems to unravel the propeptide trimer to enable proteolytic release Molecular modeling with the proteinase and its substrate supports this hypothesis
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- David Pulido
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- UMR5086, CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon Cedex 7, France
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- UMR5305, CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon Cedex 7, France
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- UMR5305, CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon Cedex 7, France
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- UMR5305, CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon Cedex 7, France
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- UMR5086, CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon Cedex 7, France
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK; UMR5305, CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon Cedex 7, France.
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