Characterization of ecotin homologs from Campylobacter rectus and Campylobacter showae.

Ecotin, first described in Escherichia coli, is a potent inhibitor of a broad range of serine proteases including those typically released by the innate immune system such as neutrophil elastase (NE). Here we describe the identification of ecotin orthologs in various Campylobacter species, including...

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Main Authors: Cody Thomas, Harald Nothaft, Ruchi Yadav, Christopher Fodor, Abofu Alemka, Oluwadamilola Oni, Michael Bell, Balázs Rada, Christine M Szymanski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244031