Identification of cysteine protease inhibitors that belong to cystatin family 1 in the cellular slime mold dictyostelium discoideum

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 385, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 547-550

  El Halawany, Medhat S ^a   Ohkouchi, Susumu ^a   Shibata, Hideki ^a   Hitomi, Kiyotaka ^a   Maki, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cathepsin B; Development; Inhibition specificity; Papain; Protein expression profile

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; CYSTATIN; CYSTATIN A1; CYSTATIN A2; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PAPAIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; EUKARYOTE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYSTATINS; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DICTYOSTELIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 3242777138     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2004.065     Document Type: Article

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