IgA proteases of two distinct specificities are released by Neisseria meningitidis

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IgA proteases of two distinct specificities are released by Neisseria meningitidis

MH Mulks, AG Plaut, HA Feldman and B Frangione

Strains of Neisseria meningitidis produce two distinct extracellular IgA proteases that cleave the human IgA1 heavy chain at different points within the hinge region. Type 1 protease cleaves the prolyl- seryl peptide bond at position 237-238; type type 2 protease cleaves the prolyl-threonyl bond two residues amino terminal to that bond attacked by type 1 enzyme. Each meningococcal isolate elaborates only one of these two enzymes, and the type of protease produced correlates with certain serogroups: group A yielding only type 1, and groups X and Y only type 2 enzyme. In addition, analysis of amino acid sequences of human alpha-chain proteins reveals that the repeating octapeptide characteristic of the IgA1 hinge region is actually triplicated.
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