Subtilisins

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks. 
  • Directed evolution of subtilisin E in Bacillus subtilis to enhance total activity in aqueous dimethylformamide. 
  • Disruption of the expression of the proprotein convertase PC7 reduces BDNF production and affects learning and memory in mice. 
  • Expression of candidate pro-GnRH processing enzymes in rat hypothalamus and an immortalized hypothalamic neuronal cell line. 
  • Furin proteolytically processes the heparin-binding region of extracellular superoxide dismutase. 
  • Genomic and exoproteomic analyses of cold- and alkaline-adapted bacteria reveal an abundance of secreted subtilisin-like proteases. 
  • HIV-1 Nef protein binds to the cellular protein PACS-1 to downregulate class I major histocompatibility complexes. 
  • Handedness of crossover connections in beta sheets. 
  • Mirolase, a novel subtilisin-like serine protease from the periodontopathogen Tannerella forsythia. 
  • Neural and glial-mediated effects of growth factors acting via tyrosine kinase receptors on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurons. 
  • Oxygen binding domains of Helisoma trivolvis hemoglobin. 
  • Pro-GnRH processing. 
  • Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 Inhibitor Therapy-Breakthrough in Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Lowering, Breakdown in Value. 
  • The Escherichia coli subtilase cytotoxin A subunit specifically cleaves cell-surface GRP78 protein and abolishes COOH-terminal-dependent signaling.