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Cysteine protease

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Resists Stress by Regulating PE19 Expression

Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires the phosphate-sensing signal transduction system Pst/SenX3-RegX3 to resist host immune responses. A Delta pstA1 mutant lacking a Pst phosphate uptake system component is hypersensitive to diverse stress conditions in vit ...

American Society for Microbiology2016

Phage Selection of Bicyclic Peptides and High-Throughput Screening of Chemical Compounds for the Identification of Novel Inhibitors of the Notch Pathway

Notch signaling is a highly conserved developmental pathway that plays important roles in the regulation of cellular processes including cell fate decisions and stem cell maintenance. A tight regulation of the Notch cascade ensures proper tissue homeostasi ...

EPFL2015

Proteome-Wide Profiling of Targets of Cysteine reactive Small Molecules by Using Ethynyl Benziodoxolone Reagents

Jérôme Waser, Chao Wang, Reto Frei, Durga Prasada Rao Hari

In this study, we present a highly efficient method for proteomic profiling of cysteine residues in complex proteomes and in living cells. Our method is based on alkynylation of cysteines in complex proteomes using a clickable alkynyl benziodoxolone bearin ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

A biocompatible "split luciferin" reaction and its application for non-invasive bioluminescent imaging of protease activity in living animals

Aurélien Godinat, Alma Rosa Morales Morales, Ghyslain Martial Alain Budin

The great complexity of many human pathologies, such as cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases, requires new tools for studies of biological processes on the whole organism level. The discovery of novel biocompatible reactions has tremendously ad ...

2014

Dithiol amino acids can structurally shape and enhance the ligand-binding properties of polypeptides

Christian Heinis, Rudolf Hovius, Florence Pojer, Shiyu Chen, Ranganath Gopalakrishnan

The disulfide bonds that form between two cysteine residues are important in defining and rigidifying the structures of proteins and peptides. In polypeptides containing multiple cysteine residues, disulfide isomerization can lead to multiple products with ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

A New Role for Escherichia coli DsbC Protein in Protection against Oxidative Stress

Camille Véronique Bernadette Goemans

We report a new function for Escherichia coli DsbC, a protein best known for disulfide bond isomerization in the periplasm. We found that DsbC regulates the redox state of the single cysteine of the l-arabinose-binding protein AraF. This cysteine, which ca ...

2014

Role and regulation of the melanization reaction in Drosophila immune response

Olivier Binggeli

In arthropods, the melanization reaction consists in the rapid synthesis of melanin at the site of infection and injury. A key enzyme in the melanization process is phenoloxidase (PO), which catalyzes the oxidation of phenols to quinones that subsequently ...

EPFL2013

Phage selection of cyclic peptide antagonists with increased stability toward intestinal proteases

Christian Heinis, Vanessa Baeriswyl

The oral delivery of protein and peptide drugs is limited by their proteolytic degradation and the poor absorption across the intestinal epithelia. In this work, we exposed a phage library of small bicyclic peptides (

Oxford University Press2013

A new target for gold(I) compounds: glutathione-S.transferase inhibition by auranofin

Paul Joseph Dyson, Christian Hartinger, Angela Casini

Nowadays, gold compounds occupy a relevant position constituting a promising class of experimental anticancer metallodrugs. Several research efforts have been devoted to the investigations of the pharmacological properties of gold(I) complexes bearing phos ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

Highly efficient production of the Alzheimer's γ-Secretase integral membrane protease complex by a multi-gene stable integration approach

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lorène Aeschbach, Patrick Fraering, Mitko Dimitrov, Sowmya Balasubramanian

Inefficient production of membrane-embedded multi-protein complexes by conventional methods has largely prevented the generation of high-resolution structural information and the performance of high-throughput drug discovery screens for this class of prote ...

2013

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