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Spacer Asn determines the fate of Kunitz (STI) inhibitors, as revealed by structural and biochemical studies on WCI mutants.
Biochemistry - 6 Jun 2006
Dasgupta Jhimli, Khamrui Susmita, Dattagupta Jiban K, Sen Udayaditya
Abstract excerpt
The scaffold of serine protease inhibitors plays a significant role in the process of religation which resists proteolysis of the inhibitor in comparison to a substrate. Although the role of the conserved scaffolding Asn residue was previously implicated in the maintenance of the binding loop conformation of Kunitz (STI) inhibitors, its possible involvement in the prevention of proteolysis is still unexplored. In...
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