Search Results - "Gouvêa, Iuri E."
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Substrate specificity studies of the cysteine peptidases falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 from Plasmodium falciparum and demonstration of their kininogenase activity
Published in Molecular and biochemical parasitology (01-02-2013)“…Plasmodial cysteine proteases falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 hydrolyze the fluorescent peptide Abz-MISLMKRPPGFSPFRSSRI-NH2 that corresponds to Met375 to Ile393…”
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Enzyme specificity and effects of gyroxin, a serine protease from the venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus, on protease-activated receptors
Published in Toxicon (Oxford) (01-03-2014)“…Gyroxin is a serine protease displaying a thrombin-like activity found in the venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus. Typically,…”
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Irreversible inhibition of human cathepsins B, L, S and K by hypervalent tellurium compounds
Published in Biological chemistry (01-11-2009)“…The inhibition of human cysteine cathepsins B, L, S and K was evaluated by a set of hypervalent tellurium compounds (telluranes) comprising both organic and…”
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A glimpse on biological activities of tellurium compounds
Published in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (01-09-2009)“…Tellurium is a rare element which has been regarded as a toxic, non-essential trace element and its biological role is not clearly established to date. Besides…”
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A study of human furin specificity using synthetic peptides derived from natural substrates, and effects of potassium ions
Published in Archives of biochemistry and biophysics (15-07-2009)“…We explored furin substrate requirements in addition to the motif R-X-K/R-R using synthetic fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET) decapeptides. These…”
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1,2-Propanediol Dehydration in Roseburia inulinivorans: STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR SUBSTRATE AND ENANTIOMER SELECTIVITY
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (22-07-2016)“…Glycyl radical enzymes (GREs) represent a diverse superfamily of enzymes that utilize a radical mechanism to catalyze difficult, but often essential, chemical…”
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Salt effect on substrate specificity of a subtilisin-like halophilic protease
Published in Protein and peptide letters (01-06-2010)“…Enzyme-substrate interaction under the presence of high concentration of salts is of great interest for biotechnology applications and basic enzymology. In our…”
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Kosmotropic Salt Activation and Substrate Specificity of Poliovirus Protease 3C
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (03-10-2006)“…Picornaviruses produce a large polyprotein, which is cleaved by virally encoded cysteine peptidases, picornain-2A and -3C. Picornain-3C has characteristics of…”
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Functional roles of C-terminal extension (CTE) of salt-dependent peptidase activity of the Natrialba magadii extracellular protease (NEP)
Published in International journal of biological macromolecules (01-07-2018)“…Nep (Natrialba magadii extracellular protease) is a halolysin-like peptidase secreted by the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natrialba magadii. Many extracellular…”
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Analysis of catalytic properties of tripeptidyl peptidase I (TTP-I), a serine carboxyl lysosomal protease, and its detection in tissue extracts using selective FRET peptide substrate
Published in Peptides (New York, N.Y. : 1980) (01-02-2016)“…•NH2-RWFFIQ-EDDnp is efficient FRET substrate for tripeptidyl peptidase I (TPP-I).•S4 subsite of TPP-I allows electrostatic interaction of with substrate…”
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Internally quenched fluorescent peptide libraries with randomized sequences designed to detect endopeptidases
Published in Analytical biochemistry (01-02-2012)“…Identification of synthetic peptide substrates for novel peptidases is an essential step for their study. With this purpose we synthesized fluorescence…”
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P-I class metalloproteinase from Bothrops moojeni venom is a post-proline cleaving peptidase with kininogenase activity: Insights into substrate selectivity and kinetic behavior
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-03-2014)“…Snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs) belonging to P-I class are able to hydrolyze extracellular matrix proteins and coagulation factors triggering local and…”
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Studies on the Catalytic Mechanism of a Glutamic Peptidase
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (09-07-2010)“…Scytalidoglutamic peptidase (SGP) is the prototype of fungal glutamic peptidases that are characteristically pepstatin insensitive. These enzymes have a unique…”
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Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in vitro peptidase activities: Identification and cleavage of kallikrein-kinin system-like substrates
Published in Veterinary microbiology (03-05-2013)“…Bacterial proteases are important for metabolic processes and pathogenesis in host organisms. The bacterial swine pathogen Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae has 15…”
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Analysis of peptidase activities of a cathepsin B-like (TcoCBc1) from Trypanosoma congolense
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-07-2014)“…The substrate specificity of TcoCBc1 was evaluated using two internally quenched fluorescent peptide libraries with randomized sequences designed to detect…”
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Yellow fever virus NS2B/NS3 protease: Hydrolytic Properties and Substrate Specificity
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications (22-04-2011)“…► YFV contains the same substrate motif in all processing sites. ► The kcat/km varied by more than two orders of magnitude among then. ► Obtained data parallel…”
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Correlation between catalysis and tertiary structure arrangement in an archaeal halophilic subtilase
Published in Biochimie (01-03-2012)“…Nep (Natrialba magadii extracellular protease) is a halolysin-like peptidase secreted by the haloalkaliphilic archaeon N. magadii that exhibits optimal…”
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Increase of SARS-CoV 3CL peptidase activity due to macromolecular crowding effects in the milieu composition
Published in Biological chemistry (01-12-2010)“…The 3C-like peptidase of the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus (SARS-CoV) is strictly required for viral replication, thus being a potential target for…”
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Poliovirus 3C proteinase inhibition by organotelluranes
Published in Biological chemistry (01-04-2011)“…The 3C proteinase, essential for human poliovirus (PV) replication, has unique characteristics as its three-dimensional structure resembles chymotrypsin, but…”
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Biochemical characterization of a cysteine proteinase from Bauhinia forficata leaves and its kininogenase activity
Published in Process biochemistry (1991) (01-02-2011)“…In this work, the proteinase activity detect in the acetone precipitate (80%, v/v) of B. forficata leaves, trivially known as cow paw, and popularly used in…”
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