Unleashing the therapeutic potential of human kallikrein-related serine proteases

I Prassas, A Eissa, G Poda… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Tissue kallikreins are a family of fifteen secreted serine proteases encoded by the largest
protease gene cluster in the human genome. In the past decade, substantial progress has …

Sunflower trypsin Inhibitor‐1 (SFTI‐1): sowing seeds in the fields of chemistry and biology

SJ de Veer, AM White, DJ Craik - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nature‐derived cyclic peptides have proven to be a vast source of inspiration for advancing
modern pharmaceutical design and synthetic chemistry. The focus of this Review is …

Disulfide-rich macrocyclic peptides as templates in drug design

SE Northfield, CK Wang, CI Schroeder, T Durek… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recently disulfide-rich head-to-tail cyclic peptides have attracted the interest of medicinal
chemists owing to their exceptional thermal, chemical and enzymatic stability brought about …

The kallikrein-related peptidase family: Dysregulation and functions during cancer progression

T Kryza, ML Silva, D Loessner, N Heuzé-Vourc'h… - Biochimie, 2016 - Elsevier
Cancer is the second leading cause of death with 14 million new cases and 8.2 million
cancer-related deaths worldwide in 2012. Despite the progress made in cancer therapies …

Diarylethene‐Based Photoswitchable Inhibitors of Serine Proteases

O Babii, S Afonin, C Diel, M Huhn… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A bicyclic peptide scaffold was chemically adapted to generate diarylethene‐based
photoswitchable inhibitors of serine protease Bos taurus trypsin 1 (T1). Starting from a …

Design and synthesis of truncated EGF-A peptides that restore LDL-R recycling in the presence of PCSK9 in vitro

CI Schroeder, JE Swedberg, JM Withka… - Chemistry & biology, 2014 - cell.com
Disrupting the binding interaction between proprotein convertase (PCSK9) and the
epidermal growth factor-like domain A (EGF-A domain) in the low-density lipoprotein …

Engineered protease inhibitors based on sunflower trypsin inhibitor-1 (SFTI-1) provide insights into the role of sequence and conformation in Laskowski mechanism …

SJ de Veer, JE Swedberg, M Akcan… - Biochemical …, 2015 - portlandpress.com
Laskowski inhibitors regulate serine proteases by an intriguing mode of action that involves
deceiving the protease into synthesizing a peptide bond. Studies exploring naturally …

Fibrinolysis inhibitors: Potential drugs for the treatment and prevention of bleeding

T Steinmetzer, O Pilgram, BM Wenzel… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Hyperfibrinolytic situations can lead to life-threatening bleeding, especially during cardiac
surgery. The approved antifibrinolytic agents such as tranexamic acid, ε-aminocaproic acid …

Design of potent and selective cathepsin G inhibitors based on the sunflower trypsin inhibitor-1 scaffold

JE Swedberg, CY Li, SJ De Veer… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Neutrophils are directly responsible for destroying invading pathogens via reactive oxygen
species, antimicrobial peptides, and neutrophil serine proteases (NSPs). Imbalance …

Kallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) as emerging therapeutic targets: focus on prostate cancer and skin pathologies

M Avgeris, A Scorilas - Expert opinion on therapeutic targets, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Tissue kallikrein and the kallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) constitute a family
of 15 homologous secreted serine proteases with trypsin-or chymotrypsin-like activities …