A cysteine protease inhibitor stored in the large granules of horseshoe crab hemocytes: Purification, characterization, cDNA cloning and tissue localization

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-94

  Agarwala, Kishan Lal ^a   Kawabata, Shun Ichiro ^a,b   Hirata, Michimasa ^c   Miyagi, Maseru ^d   Tsunasawa, Susumu ^d   Iwanaga, Sadaaki ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TAKARA SHUZO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Cystatin; Cysteine protease; Horseshoe crab; Ion spray mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTATIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; FICIN; MESSENGER RNA; PAPAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL GRANULE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEPATOPANCREAS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTESTINE CELL; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LIMULUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEINASE INHIBITION; STOMACH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030053568     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021220     Document Type: Article

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