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A novel cysteine protease inhibitor with lectin activity from the epidermis of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica. 2005

Eiichi Saitoh, and Satoko Isemura, and Akira Chiba, and Shunya Oka, and Shoji Odani
Department of Biochemistry, The Nippon Dental University School of Dentistry at Niigata, 1-8 Hamaura-cho, Niigata 951-8580, Japan. esaitoh@ngt.ndu.ac.jp

A novel cysteine protease inhibitor (Eel-CPI-1) was isolated from the epidermis of the eel. Eel-CPI-1 was shown to bind strongly to both lactose- and carboxymethylated papain-affinity gels. Its molecular mass under reducing condition was determined to be 18 kDa by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis but approximately 30.5 kDa under non-reducing-conditions. Eel-CPI-1 inhibited papain (K(i)=18 nM) and ficin (K(i)=120 nM) competitively. Combined with the data on amino acid and sequence analysis, Eel-CPI-1 is identical to the eel lectin, AJL-2. This is the first report describing a cysteine protease inhibitor with lectin activity.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007700 Kinetics The rate dynamics in chemical or physical systems.
D010206 Papain A proteolytic enzyme obtained from Carica papaya. It is also the name used for a purified mixture of papain and CHYMOPAPAIN that is used as a topical enzymatic debriding agent. EC 3.4.22.2. Tromasin
D004524 Eels Common name for an order (Anguilliformes) of voracious, elongate, snakelike teleost fishes. Anguilliformes,Eel
D004817 Epidermis The external, nonvascular layer of the skin. It is made up, from within outward, of five layers of EPITHELIUM: (1) basal layer (stratum basale epidermidis); (2) spinous layer (stratum spinosum epidermidis); (3) granular layer (stratum granulosum epidermidis); (4) clear layer (stratum lucidum epidermidis); and (5) horny layer (stratum corneum epidermidis).
D005361 Ficain A sulfhydryl proteinase with cysteine at the active site from ficus latex. Preferential cleavage is at tyrosine and phenylalanine residues. EC 3.4.22.3. Ficin
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001419 Bacteria One of the three domains of life (the others being Eukarya and ARCHAEA), also called Eubacteria. They are unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms which generally possess rigid cell walls, multiply by cell division, and exhibit three principal forms: round or coccal, rodlike or bacillary, and spiral or spirochetal. Bacteria can be classified by their response to OXYGEN: aerobic, anaerobic, or facultatively anaerobic; by the mode by which they obtain their energy: chemotrophy (via chemical reaction) or PHOTOTROPHY (via light reaction); for chemotrophs by their source of chemical energy: CHEMOLITHOTROPHY (from inorganic compounds) or chemoorganotrophy (from organic compounds); and by their source for CARBON; NITROGEN; etc.; HETEROTROPHY (from organic sources) or AUTOTROPHY (from CARBON DIOXIDE). They can also be classified by whether or not they stain (based on the structure of their CELL WALLS) with CRYSTAL VIOLET dye: gram-negative or gram-positive. Eubacteria
D015853 Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors Exogenous and endogenous compounds which inhibit CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES. Acid Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitor,Cysteine Protease Inhibitor,Cysteine Protease Inhibitors,Cysteine Proteinase Antagonist,Cysteine Proteinase Antagonists,Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitor,Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors, Endogenous,Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors, Exogenous,alpha-Cysteine Protease Inhibitor,Acid Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors,alpha-Cysteine Protease Inhibitors,Antagonist, Cysteine Proteinase,Antagonists, Cysteine Proteinase,Inhibitor, Cysteine Protease,Inhibitor, Cysteine Proteinase,Inhibitor, alpha-Cysteine Protease,Inhibitors, Cysteine Protease,Inhibitors, Cysteine Proteinase,Inhibitors, alpha-Cysteine Protease,Protease Inhibitor, Cysteine,Protease Inhibitor, alpha-Cysteine,Protease Inhibitors, Cysteine,Protease Inhibitors, alpha-Cysteine,Proteinase Antagonist, Cysteine,Proteinase Antagonists, Cysteine,Proteinase Inhibitor, Cysteine,Proteinase Inhibitors, Cysteine,alpha Cysteine Protease Inhibitor,alpha Cysteine Protease Inhibitors
D037102 Lectins Proteins that share the common characteristic of binding to carbohydrates. Some ANTIBODIES and carbohydrate-metabolizing proteins (ENZYMES) also bind to carbohydrates, however they are not considered lectins. PLANT LECTINS are carbohydrate-binding proteins that have been primarily identified by their hemagglutinating activity (HEMAGGLUTININS). However, a variety of lectins occur in animal species where they serve diverse array of functions through specific carbohydrate recognition. Animal Lectin,Animal Lectins,Isolectins,Lectin,Isolectin,Lectin, Animal,Lectins, Animal

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