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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-3-30
pubmed:abstractText
Protein quality control factors are involved in many key physiological processes and severe human diseases that are based on misfolding or amyloid formation. Prokaryotic representatives are often virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria. Therefore, protein quality control factors represent a novel class of drug targets. The bacterial serine protease DegP, belonging to the widely conserved family of HtrA proteases, exhibits unusual structural and functional plasticity that could be exploited by small molecule modulators. However, only one weak synthetic peptide substrate and no inhibitors are available to date. We report the identification of a potent heptameric pNA-substrate and chloromethyl ketone based inhibitors of DegP. In addition, specificity profiling resulted in the identification of one strong inhibitor and a potent substrate for subtilisin as well as a number of specific elastase substrates and inhibitors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1464-3391
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2920-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Selectivity profiling of DegP substrates and inhibitors.
pubmed:affiliation
Chemical Genomics Centre der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Otto-Hahn-Str. 15, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article