Microbial proteases and their applications

P Song, X Zhang, S Wang, W Xu, F Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Proteases (proteinases or peptidases) are a class of hydrolases that cleave peptide chains
in proteins. Endopeptidases are a type of protease that hydrolyze the internal peptide bonds …

Systematic d-Amino Acid Substitutions to Control Peptide and Hydrogel Degradation in Cellular Microenvironments

K Bomb, Q Zhang, EM Ford, CA Fromen… - ACS Macro …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enzymatically degradable peptides are commonly used as linkers within hydrogels for
biological applications; however, controlling the degradation of these engineered peptides …

Peptomer substrates for quantitative pattern-recognition sensing of proteases

MJ Austin, HC Schunk, N Ling… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The utility of active proteases as biomarkers is often limited by overlap** substrate
specificity. Here, this feature is leveraged to develop a quantitative pattern-recognition …