In Vitro Assay for Protease Activity of Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin Kexins (PCSKs): An Overall Review of Existing and New Methodologies

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 768, Issue , 2011, Pages 127-153

  Basak, Ajoy ^a,b   Chen, Andrew ^a   Majumdar, Swapan ^a,c   Smith, Heather Palmer ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c TRIPURA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

chromogenic peptides; fluorogenic peptides; intramolecularly quenched fluorogenic peptides; Proprotein convertase subtilisin kexins (PCSKs); protease assay; protein processing; solid phase assay

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; FLUORESCENT DYE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME ASSAYS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 80054730120     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-204-5_6     Document Type: Chapter

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