Structure and mechanism of the pepsin-like family of aspartic peptidases

BM Dunn - Chemical reviews, 2002‏ - ACS Publications
The last general review of the aspartic peptidase family was by David R. Davies in 1990. 1
Since then, several reviews on selected aspects of the structure and function of aspartic …

Nerve growth factor mediates signal transduction through trk homodimer receptors

S **g, P Tapley, M Barbacid - Neuron, 1992‏ - Elsevier
We have investigated the molecular nature of the high affinity nerve growth factor (NGF)
receptors by using cell lines expressing gp75 LNGFR and gp140 trk Our results suggest that …

Multifunctional aspartic peptidase prosegments

Y Horimoto, DR Dee, RY Yada - New biotechnology, 2009‏ - Elsevier
The structure–function relationships of aspartic peptidases (APs)(EC 3.4. 23. X) have been
extensively investigated, yet much remains to be elucidated regarding the various molecular …

The clinical potential of renin inhibitors and angiotensin antagonists

RJ Cody - Drugs, 1994‏ - Springer
The renin angiotensin system is a major contributor to the pathophysiology of cardiovascular
diseases such as congestive heart failure and hypertension. For this reason, attempts to …

Prosegment catalyzes pepsin folding to a kinetically trapped native state

DR Dee, RY Yada - Biophysical Journal, 2009‏ - cell.com
Pepsin, an archetypical aspartic peptidase, initially contains an N-terminal, 44 residue
prosegment (PS) that, upon folding, is removed to yield native pepsin (Np). Np is irreversibly …

The Propeptide Is Nonessential for the Expression of Human Cathepsin D (∗)

SC Fortenberry, JM Chirgwin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1995‏ - jbc.org
When the 44-amino acid propeptide of human procathepsin D was deleted by mutagenesis
in vitro, the mature protein was stably expressed and secreted from transfected mammalian …

Scaled-up production of recombinant human renin in CHO cells for enzymatic and X-ray structure analysis

FAM Asselbergs, J Rahuel, F Cumin, C Leist - Journal of biotechnology, 1994‏ - Elsevier
A process was developed to produce recombinant human renin for X-ray analysis and
enzyme inhibition studies. An expression vector containing a human prorenin cDNA and …

The prosegment catalyzes native folding of Plasmodium falciparum plasmepsin II

AH Jaafar, H **ao, DR Dee, BC Bryksa… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Plasmepsin II is a malarial pepsin-like aspartic protease produced as a zymogen containing
an N-terminal prosegment domain that is removed during activation. Despite structural …

Foldase and inhibitor functionalities of the pepsinogen prosegment are encoded within discrete segments of the 44 residue domain

DR Dee, B Myers, RY Yada - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Pepsin is initially produced as the zymogen pepsinogen, containing a 44 residue
prosegment (PS) domain. When folded without the PS, pepsin forms a thermodynamically …

Development of novel renin inhibitors and interaction of antimicrobial and cytotoxic peptides with plasma proteins. A drug discovery study

A Sivertsen - 2013‏ - munin.uit.no
In this study we have explored the structure activity relationship of molecules with potential
as novel drug classes toward current medical challenges as hypertension, cancer and …