Modifying the substrate specificity of Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda serine protease inhibitor domain 1 to target thrombin.

Protease inhibitors play a decisive role in maintaining homeostasis and eliciting antimicrobial activities. Invertebrates like the horseshoe crab have developed unique modalities with serine protease inhibitors to detect and respond to microbial and host proteases. Two isoforms of an immunomodulator...

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Main Authors: Pankaj Kumar Giri, Xuhua Tang, Saravanan Thangamani, Rajesh T Shenoy, Jeak Ling Ding, Kunchithapadam Swaminathan, J Sivaraman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3004852?pdf=render