Purification and characterisation of blarinasin, a new tissue kallikrein-like protease from the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda: Comparative studies with blarina toxin

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 386, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-182

  Kita, Masaki ^a   Okumura, Yuushi ^b   Ohdachi, Satoshi D ^c   Oba, Yuichi ^a   Yoshikuni, Michiyasu ^d   Nakamura, Yasuo ^b,e   Kido, Hiroshi ^b   Uemura, Daisuke ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence analysis; Blarina toxin; Blarinasin; Salivary glands; Short tailed shrew; Tissue kallikrein

Indexed keywords

APROTININ; BLARINA TOXIN; BLARINASIN; BRADYKININ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT KININOGEN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TISSUE KALLIKREIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INSECTIVORE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; SALIVARY GLAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KALLIKREINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHREWS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TISSUE KALLIKREINS;

BLARINA; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 14944365562     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2005.022     Document Type: Article

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