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Molecular cloning of a serine proteinase inhibitor from Brugia malayi [PDF]

Infection and Immunity, 1995
The antigens produced by the infective-stage larvae of filarial parasites are potentially important targets for a protective immune response. A major impediment to studies on the biochemistry and molecular biology of antigens from infective larvae is a lack of parasite material.
P, Yenbutr, A L, Scott
openaire   +2 more sources

E2A selectively regulates TGF‐β–induced apoptosis in KRAS‐mutant non‐small cell lung cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Ability to induce apoptosis by TGF‐β is frequently lost in advanced lung adenocarcinoma despite intact TGF‐β signaling. We identify E2A as a mutant KRAS–dependent mediator of resistance to TGF‐β–induced apoptosis. TGF‐β induces E2A via SMAD3 in mutant KRAS cells, and E2A silencing restores apoptosis and enhances radiation response in cell lines ...
Sergei Chuikov, Shiva Krishna Katkam, Zhefan Wang, Venkateshwar G. Keshamouni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification and pharmaceutical evaluation of novel frog skin-derived serine proteinase inhibitor peptide–PE-BBI (Pelophylax esculentus Bowman-Birk inhibitor) for the potential treatment of cancer

Scientific Reports, 2018
Amphibian venom-derived peptides have high potential in the field of anticancer drug discovery. We have isolated a novel Bowman-Birk proteinase inhibitor (BBI)-type peptide from the skin secretion of Pelophylax esculentus (PE) named PE-BBI, and evaluated
Peng Lyu, Lilin Ge, Rui Ma, Ran Wei, Cian M. McCrudden, Tianbao Chen, Chris Shaw, Hang Fai Kwok   +7 more
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Prospeção de inibidores de serinoproteinases em folhas de leguminosas arbóreas da floresta Amazônica Prospecting serine proteinase inhibitors in leaves from leguminous trees of the Amazon forest

Acta Amazonica, 2011
Os inibidores de proteinases são proteínas extensivamente investigadas nos tecidos de estocagem, mas pouco prospectadas em outros tecidos vegetais. O objetivo deste estudo foi detectar a presença de inibidores de serinoproteinases em extratos foliares de
Larissa Ramos Chevreuil, José Francisco de Carvalho Gonçalves, Flávia Camila SCHIMPL, Cristiane Santos do Carmo Ribeiro de Souza, Luiz Augusto Gomes de Souza, Silvana Cristina Pando   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Degradation of connective tissue matrices by macrophages. III. Morphological and biochemical studies on extracellular, pericellular, and intracellular events in matrix proteolysis by macrophages in culture. [PDF]

, 1980
We have shown that macrophages in culture degrade the glycoproteins and amorphous elastin of insoluble extracellular matrices. Ultrastructural observation of the macrophage-matrix interaction revealed that connective tissue macromolecules were ...
Bainton, DF, Jones, PA, Werb, Z
core  

KDM7A and KDM1A inhibition suppresses tumour promoting pathways in prostate cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Treatment resistance is a major challenge for patients with advanced prostate cancer. This study examined an alternative approach to target the major prostate cancer‐promoting pathway by targeting epigenetic factors, whose levels are higher in tumours.
Jennie N Jeyapalan, Veronika M Metzler, Simone de Brot, Corinne L Woodcock, Anna E Harris, Jennifer Lothion‐Roy, Emeli M Nilsson, Atara Ntekim, Michael S Toss, Jenny L Persson, Francesca Khani, Brian D Robinson, Lorraine J Gudas, Emad Rakha, David M Heery, Catrin S Rutland, Nigel P Mongan   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting Inhibition of Fibroblast Activation Protein-α and Prolyl Oligopeptidase Activities on Cells Common to Metastatic Tumor Microenvironments

Neoplasia: An International Journal for Oncology Research, 2013
Fibroblast activation protein (FAP), a membrane prolyl-specific proteinase with both dipeptidase and endopeptidase activities, is overexpressed by reactive stromal fibroblasts during epithelial-derived cancer growth.
Victoria J. Christiansen, Kenneth W. Jackson, Kyung N. Lee, Tamyra D. Downs, Patrick A. McKee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global substrate profiling of proteases in human neutrophil extracellular traps reveals consensus motif predominantly contributed by elastase. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) consist of antimicrobial molecules embedded in a web of extracellular DNA. Formation of NETs is considered to be a defense mechanism utilized by neutrophils to ensnare and kill invading pathogens, and has been ...
Anthony J O'Donoghue, Ye Jin, Giselle M Knudsen, Natascha C Perera, Dieter E Jenne, John E Murphy, Charles S Craik, Terry W Hermiston   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of proteases in pathologies of the synovial joint [PDF]

, 2008
Synovial (diarthrodial) joints are employed within the body to provide skeletal mobility and have a characteristic structure adapted to provide a smooth almost frictionless surface for articulation.
Buttle, D, Jones, GC, Riley, GP
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Cell‐cycle‐specific lesion evolution rather than inhibition of double‐strand‐break repair underpins cisplatin radiosensitization

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We analyze cisplatin–DNA adducts (CDAs) and double‐strand breaks (DSBs) in a cell‐cycle‐dependent manner. We find that CDAs form similarly across all cell cycle phases. DSBs arise only in S‐phase. CDAs might not directly impair DSB repair, but S‐phase DSB lesions evolve in the presence of CDAs and disrupt repair in G2, also causing radiosensitization ...
Ye Qiu, Xixi Lin, Emil Mladenov, Veronika Mladenova, Jürgen Thomale, Ali Sak, Yao Wang, Yunxuan Deng, Eleni Gkika, Martin Stuschke, George Iliakis   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source