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A Molecular Switch Governs the Interaction between the Human Complement Protease C1s and Its Substrate, Complement C4

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A common fold mediates vertebrate defense and bacterial attack

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A major cathepsin B protease from the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica has atypical active site features and a potential role in the digestive tract of newly excysted juvenile parasites

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A molecular basis for the association of the HLA-DRB1 locus, citrullination, and rheumatoid arthritis

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A naturally occurring NAR variable domain binds the Kgp protease from Porphyromonas gingivalis

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Activation of protease-activated receptor-2 leads to inhibition of osteoclast differentiation

scientific article published on 22 December 2003

Adult and juvenile Fasciola cathepsin L proteases: different enzymes for different roles

scientific article published on 16 December 2010

Analysis of Fasciola cathepsin L5 by S2 subsite substitutions and determination of the P1–P4 specificity reveals an unusual preference

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Angiotensinogen cleavage by renin: importance of a structurally constrained N-terminus

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Anti-peptide antibodies to cathepsins B, L and D and type IV collagenase

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Antithrombin: in control of coagulation

scientific article published on March 2004

Approaches to selective peptidic inhibitors of factor Xa.

scientific article published in July 2006

Assembly of the Type II Secretion System such as Found in Vibrio cholerae Depends on the Novel Pilotin AspS

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Baboon (Papio ursinus) cathepsin L: purification, characterization and comparison with human and sheep cathepsin L.

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Bioinformatic approaches for predicting substrates of proteases

scientific article published on February 2011

Cathepsin B proteases of flukes: the key to facilitating parasite control?

scientific article published on 30 June 2010

Characterisation of the activity and stability of single-chain cathepsin L and of proteolytically active cathepsin L/cystatin complexes

scientific article published in July 1992

Characterization of a serine protease homologous to house dust mite group 3 allergens from the scabies mite Sarcoptes scabiei

scientific article published on 7 October 2009

Characterization of the specificity of arginine-specific gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis reveals active site differences between different forms of the enzymes

scientific article published in October 2003

Cleavage and activation of proteinase-activated receptor-2 on human neutrophils by gingipain-R from Porphyromonas gingivalis

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Cloning and expression of the major secreted cathepsin B-like protein from juvenile Fasciola hepatica and analysis of immunogenicity following liver fluke infection.

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Conformational change in the chromatin remodelling protein MENT

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Conformational changes in serpins: II. The mechanism of activation of antithrombin by heparin.

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Control of the coagulation system by serpins. Getting by with a little help from glycosaminoglycans

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Cooperative effects in the substrate specificity of the complement protease C1s.

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Corruption of innate immunity by bacterial proteases

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DNA accelerates the inhibition of human cathepsin V by serpins

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Determination of the P1', P2' and P3' subsite-specificity of factor Xa.

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Discovery of amino acid motifs for thrombin cleavage and validation using a model substrate

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Dissection of Protease-Activated Receptor-1-Dependent and -Independent Responses to Thrombin in Skeletal Myoblasts

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Effect of O-glycosylation and tyrosinesulfation of leech-derived peptides on binding and inhibitory activity against thrombin

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Elucidation of the substrate specificity of the C1s protease of the classical complement pathway

scientific article published on 16 September 2005

Elucidation of the substrate specificity of the MASP-2 protease of the lectin complement pathway and identification of the enzyme as a major physiological target of the serpin, C1-inhibitor

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Enzymic, phylogenetic, and structural characterization of the unusual papain-like protease domain of Plasmodium falciparum SERA5.

scientific article published on 17 September 2003

Erratum to “Inhibition of osteoblast apoptosis by thrombin” [Bone 33 (2003) 733–743]

scholarly article published in Bone

Evidence for the activation of PAR-2 by the sperm protease, acrosin: expression of the receptor on oocytes

scientific article published in November 2000

Evidence that serpin architecture intrinsically supports papain-like cysteine protease inhibition: engineering alpha(1)-antitrypsin to inhibit cathepsin proteases

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Expression of protease-activated receptor-2 by osteoblasts.

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Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica: cloning and characterisation of 70 kDa heat-shock proteins reveals variation in HSP70 gene expression between parasite species recovered from sheep.

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Fluorinated β²- and β³-Amino Acids: Synthesis and Inhibition of α-Chymotrypsin

Functional responses of bone cells to thrombin

scientific article published on August 2006

GABA production by glutamic acid decarboxylase is regulated by a dynamic catalytic loop

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High molecular weight gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis induce cytokine responses from human macrophage-like cells via a nonproteolytic mechanism

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Highlight: The Biology of Proteolytic Systems

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Host andPorphyromonas gingivalis proteinases in periodontitis: A biochemical model of infection and tissue destruction

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Hurpin is a selective inhibitor of lysosomal cathepsin L and protects keratinocytes from ultraviolet-induced apoptosis

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Identification of a catalytic exosite for complement component C4 on the serine protease domain of C1s.

scientific article published on August 2012

Importance of the prime subsites of the C1s protease of the classical complement pathway for recognition of substrates

scientific article published in December 2003

Inhibition of osteoblast apoptosis by thrombin

scientific article published on October 2003

Inhibitory activity of a heterochromatin-associated serpin (MENT) against papain-like cysteine proteinases affects chromatin structure and blocks cell proliferation

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Introduction of a mutation in the shutter region of antithrombin (Phe77 --> Leu) increases affinity for heparin and decreases thermal stability

scientific article published in September 2003

Investigation of the mechanism of interaction between Mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease-2 and complement C4.

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Isolation of cathepsin D using three-phase partitioning in t-butanol/water/ammonium sulfate

scientific article published on 01 July 1989

Mannose-binding lectin serine proteases and associated proteins of the lectin pathway of complement: two genes, five proteins and many functions?

scientific article published on 06 June 2011

Mature cathepsin L is substantially active in the ionic milieu of the extracellular medium.

scientific article published in December 1995

Methods to Measure the Kinetics of Protease Inhibition by Serpins

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Modulation of the proteolytic activity of the complement protease C1s by polyanions: implications for polyanion-mediated acceleration of interaction between C1s and SERPING1.

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Molecular characterization of centerin, a germinal centre cell serpin

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Molecular determinants of the mechanism underlying acceleration of the interaction between antithrombin and factor Xa by heparin pentasaccharide

scientific article published on 19 February 2002

Molecular determinants of the substrate specificity of the complement-initiating protease, C1r.

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Multiple domains of MASP-2, an initiating complement protease, are required for interaction with its substrate C4.

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Novel scabies mite serpins inhibit the three pathways of the human complement system

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Osteopontin and skeletal muscle myoblasts: association with muscle regeneration and regulation of myoblast function in vitro

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PROSPER: an integrated feature-based tool for predicting protease substrate cleavage sites

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Phylogeny of the serpin superfamily: implications of patterns of amino acid conservation for structure and function.

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Physical characterization of serpin conformations

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PoPS: a computational tool for modeling and predicting protease specificity

scientific article published in June 2005

Predicting serpin/protease interactions

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Production and processing of a recombinant Fasciola hepatica cathepsin B-like enzyme (FhcatB1) reveals potential processing mechanisms in the parasite

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Production of anti-peptide antibodies against trypanopain-Tb from Trypanosoma brucei brucei: effects of antibodies on enzyme activity against Z-Phe-Arg-AMC

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Protease-activated receptor 2 has pivotal roles in cellular mechanisms involved in experimental periodontitis

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Protease-activated receptors: a means of converting extracellular proteolysis into intracellular signals.

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Proteinase-activated receptor-2 (PAR2) and mouse osteoblasts: regulation of cell function and lack of specificity of PAR2-activating peptides

scientific article published on 21 September 2009

Proteinase-activated receptor-2 is required for normal osteoblast and osteoclast differentiation during skeletal growth and repair.

scientific article published on 7 December 2011

Proteolytically active complexes of cathepsin L and a cysteine proteinase inhibitor; purification and demonstration of their formation in vitro

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Recruitment of Human C1 Esterase Inhibitor Controls Complement Activation on Blood Stage Plasmodium falciparum Merozoites

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

S1 Pocket of a Bacterially Derived Subtilisin-like Protease Underpins Effective Tissue Destruction

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Scabies mite inactivated serine protease paralogs inhibit the human complement system.

scientific article published in June 2009

Scabies mite inactive serine proteases are potent inhibitors of the human complement lectin pathway

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Serpins 2005 - fun between the beta-sheets. Meeting report based upon presentations made at the 4th International Symposium on Serpin Structure, Function and Biology (Cairns, Australia).

scientific article published in October 2005

Serpins and the Complement System

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Serpins in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Serpins: finely balanced conformational traps

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Structural basis for substrate specificity of Helicobacter pylori M17 aminopeptidase

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Structural characterization of the mechanism through which human glutamic acid decarboxylase auto-activates

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Structural mechanisms of inactivation in scabies mite serine protease paralogues

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Studies on the receptors mediating responses of osteoblasts to thrombin.

scientific article published in January 2005

Subsite cooperativity in protease specificity

scientific article published on May 2009

The C-terminal domains of the gingipain K polyprotein are necessary for assembly of the active enzyme and expression of associated activities

scientific article published in December 2004

The Structural Basis for Complement Inhibition by Gigastasin, a Protease Inhibitor from the Giant Amazon Leech.

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The Subtilisin-Like Protease AprV2 Is Required for Virulence and Uses a Novel Disulphide-Tethered Exosite to Bind Substrates

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The X-ray Crystal Structure of Mannose-binding Lectin-associated Serine Proteinase-3 Reveals the Structural Basis for Enzyme Inactivity Associated with the Carnevale, Mingarelli, Malpuech, and Michels (3MC) Syndrome

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The X-ray crystal structure of full-length human plasminogen

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The amino acid sequences, structure comparisons and inhibition kinetics of sheep cathepsin L and sheep stefin B

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The anticoagulant activation of antithrombin by heparin

scientific article published in December 1997

The effects of exosite occupancy on the substrate specificity of thrombin

scientific article published on 26 July 2009

The elusive role of the potential factor X cation-binding exosite-1 in substrate and inhibitor interactions.

scientific article published on 28 October 2003

The evolution of enzyme specificity in Fasciola spp.

scientific article published in July 2003

The gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis do not directly induce osteoclast differentiation in primary mouse bone marrow cultures.

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The gingipains: scissors and glue of the periodontal pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis

scientific article published on May 2009

The initiating proteases of the complement system: controlling the cleavage

scientific article published on 06 August 2007

The lysine-specific gingipain of Porphyromonas gingivalis : importance to pathogenicity and potential strategies for inhibition

scientific article published on January 2011

The molecular switches controlling the interaction between complement proteases of the classical and lectin pathways and their substrates

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

The murine orthologue of human antichymotrypsin: a structural paradigm for clade A3 serpins

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The protease cathepsin L regulates Th17 cell differentiation

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The role of the lys628 (192) residue of the complement protease, c1s, in interacting with Peptide and protein substrates

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The x-ray crystal structure of mannose-binding lectin-associated serine proteinase-3 reveals the structural basis for enzyme inactivity associated with the Carnevale, Mingarelli, Malpuech, and Michels (3MC) syndrome.

scientific article published in September 2013

Thrombin inhibits osteoclast differentiation through a non-proteolytic mechanism.

scientific article published on 23 April 2013

Thrombin-stimulated growth factor and cytokine expression in osteoblasts is mediated by protease-activated receptor-1 and prostanoids

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Total synthesis of homogeneous variants of hirudin P6: a post-translationally modified anti-thrombotic leech-derived protein.

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Vector-based RNA interference of cathepsin B1 in Schistosoma mansoni

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X-ray crystal structure of MENT: evidence for functional loop-sheet polymers in chromatin condensation

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