Substrate specificity of recombinant cysteine proteinase, CPB, of Leishmania mexicana

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-9

  Alves, Lira C ^a   Judice, Wagner A S ^a   Hilaire, Phaedria M St ^b   Meldal, Morten ^b   Sanderson, Sanya J ^c   Mottram, Jeremy C ^d   Coombs, Graham H ^c   Juliano, Luiz ^a   Juliano, Maria A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cathepsin L; Cruzain; Cysteine proteinase; Inhibitors; Leishmania; Thiol protease

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOBENZOYLLYSYLLEUCYLARGINYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLLYSYLGLUTAMINE N [2,4 DINITROPHENYL]ETHYLENEDIAMINE; ARGININE; BRADYKININ; CATHEPSIN L; CRUZIPAIN; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; ISOENZYME; KININ; KININOGEN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANINE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROLYSIS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATHEPSINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; KININOGENS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034910189     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00290-0     Document Type: Article

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