Cathepsin S and cruzipain are inhibited by equistatin from Actinia equina

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 589-592

  Stoka, Veronika ^a   Lenarčič, Brigita ^a   Cazzulo, Juan José ^b   Turk, Vito ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cathepsin S; Cruzipain; Cysteine proteinases; Equistatin; Inhibition; Thyropins

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN S; CRUZIPAIN; EQUISTATIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; THYROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME ISOLATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ANEMONE;

ANIMALS; CATHEPSINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; KINETICS; PROTEINS; SEA ANEMONES;

ACTINIA EQUINA; ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE;

EID: 0345161636     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.075     Document Type: Article

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