Cysteine Protease Inhibitor
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13. High molecular weight kininogen is an inhibitor of platelet calpain.
Recent studies from our laboratory indicate that a high concentration of platelet-derived calcium-activated cysteine protease (calpain) can cleave high molecular weight kininogen (HMWK). On immunodiffusion and immunoblot, antiserum directed to the heavy chain of HMWK showed immunochemical identity with alpha-cysteine protease inhibitor--a major plasma inhibi
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14. Conserved Cysteines of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Protease Are Involved in Regulation of Polyprotein Processing and Viral Maturation of Immature Virions
We investigated the role of the two highly conserved cysteine residues, cysteines 67 and 95, of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease in regulating the activity of that protease during viral maturation. To this end, we generated four HIV-1 molecular clones: the wild type, containing both cysteine residues; a protease mutant in which the cy
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15. Proteases and Their Involvement in the Infection and Immobilization of Nematodes by the Nematophagous Fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora
The nematophagous fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora produced extracellular proteases when grown in a liquid culture, as revealed by measuring the hydrolysis of the chromogenic substrate Azocoll. The extracellular protease activity was inhibited by phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) and other serine protease inhibitors and partly inhibited by the aspartate pro
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16. Effect of Group A Streptococcal Cysteine Protease on Invasion of Epithelial Cells
Cysteine protease of group A streptococci (GAS) is considered an important virulence factor. However, its role in invasiveness of GAS has not been investigated. We demonstrated in this study that two strains of protease-producing GAS had the ability to invade A-549 human respiratory epithelial cells. Isogenic protease mutants were constructed by using integr
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17. Inhibitory effects of recombinant human cystatin C on human coronaviruses.
Cystatin C, a potent inhibitor of cysteine proteases such as papain and cathepsin B, was examined for its effect on human coronaviruses OC43 and 229e. Both viruses were greater than 99% inhibited by 0.1 mM inhibitor. Endpoint titrations showed that inhibiting activity paralleled that of leupeptin, a serine and cysteine protease inhibitor, and indicated that
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18. A cysteine protease encoded by the baculovirus Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus.
Sequence analysis of the BamHI F fragment of the genome of Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus (BmNPV) revealed an open reading frame whose deduced amino acid sequence had homology to those of cysteine proteases of the papain superfamily. The putative cysteine protease sequence (BmNPV-CP) was 323 amino acids long and showed 35% identity to a cysteine prot
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19. Gene disruption confirms a critical role for the cysteine protease falcipain-2 in hemoglobin hydrolysis by Plasmodium falciparum
Erythrocytic malaria parasites degrade hemoglobin in an acidic food vacuole to acquire free amino acids and maintain parasite homeostasis. Hemoglobin hydrolysis appears to be a cooperative process requiring cysteine proteases (falcipains) and aspartic proteases (plasmepsins), but the specific roles of different enzymes in this process are unknown. We previou
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20. Plasmodium falciparum cysteine protease falcipain-1 is not essential in erythrocytic stage malaria parasites
Among potential new targets for antimalarial chemotherapy are Plasmodium falciparum cysteine proteases, known as falcipains. Falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 are food vacuole hemoglobinases that may have additional functions. The function of falcipain-1 remains uncertain. To better characterize the role of falcipain-1 in erythrocytic parasites, we disrupted the f
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21. Proteolytic action of thrombin is required for electrical activity-dependent synapse reduction.
Molecular mechanisms of activity-dependent synapse reduction were studied in an in vitro mammalian neuromuscular preparation. Synapse reduction in this model is activity-dependent and is substantially reduced by the broad-spectrum protease inhibitor, leupeptin, suggesting the role of activity-dependent proteolytic action in the process. Our present experimen
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22. Purification, Identification, and Biochemical Characterization of a Host-Encoded Cysteine Protease That Cleaves a Leishmaniavirus Gag-Pol Polyprotein
Leishmania RNA virus (LRV) is a double-stranded RNA virus that infects some strains of the protozoan parasite Leishmania. As with other totiviruses, LRV presumably expresses its polymerase by a ribosomal frameshift, resulting in a capsid-polymerase fusion protein. We have demonstrated previously that an LRV capsid-polymerase polyprotein is specifically cleav
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23. Decreased Amounts of Cell Wall-Associated Protein A and Fibronectin-Binding Proteins in Staphylococcus aureus sarA Mutants due to Up-Regulation of Extracellular Proteases
Data have been presented indicating that Staphylococcus aureus cell surface protein can be degraded by extracellular proteases produced by the same bacterium. We have found that in sarA mutant cells, which produce high amounts of four major extracellular proteases (staphylococcal serine protease [V8 protease] [SspA], cysteine protease [SspB], aureolysin [met
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24. Order and specificity of the Plasmodium falciparum hemoglobin degradation pathway.
The human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, degrades nearly all its host cell hemoglobin during a short segment of its intraerythrocytic development. This massive catabolic process occurs in an acidic organelle, the digestive vacuole. Aspartic and cysteine proteases have been implicated in this pathway. We have isolated three vacuolar proteases that a