Article
Aggregation of M3 (E376D) variant of alpha1- antitrypsin.
Scientific reports - 19 May 2020
Bashir Arif, Hazari Younis, Pal Debnath, Maity Dibyajyoti, Bashir Samirul, Singh Laishram Rajendrakumar, Shah Naveed Nazir, Fazili Khalid Majid
Abstract excerpt
Alpha1-antitrypsin (α1AT) is an abundant serine-protease inhibitor in circulation. It has an important role in neutralizing the neutrophil elastase activity. Different pathogenic point mutations like Z(E342K)-α1AT have been implicated in the development of liver cirrhosis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the latter being a cluster of progressive lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and...
Topics
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Case-Control Studies
- Circular Dichroism
- Dynamic Light Scattering
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- Protein Aggregates
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Trypsin
- alpha 1-Antitrypsin
