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Contributions of individual residues in the N-terminal region of cystatin B (stefin B) to inhibition of cysteine proteinases.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 31 Jan 2003
Pol Ewa, Björk Ingemar
Abstract excerpt
The importance of individual residues in the N-terminal region of cystatin B for proteinase inhibition was elucidated by measurements of the affinity and kinetics of binding of N-terminally truncated, recombinant variants of the bovine inhibitor to cysteine proteinases. Removal of Met-1 caused an 8- to 10-fold lower affinity for papain and cathepsin B, decreased the affinity also for cathepsin L but only...
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