Natural Proteinase Inhibitors

Natural Proteinase Inhibitors
Author: Rosmarie Vogel
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323160700

Natural Proteinase Inhibitors focuses on natural inhibitors for proteolytic enzymes, which occur in plants and animals. It presents the theoretical and practical importance of the natural proteinase inhibitors of man and animal organisms. Organized into four chapters, this book starts with an overview of inhibitors for peptide and peptdohydrolases. This text then explores the important enzyme called kallikreins, which are found in the pancreas, the intestinal wall, the plasma, the submandibular gland, and the urine. Other chapters examine the various plant inhibitors, which are present in soybean, lima beans, potatoes, grains, and beetroots. This book discusses as well the inhibition of proteolytic enzymes by substances from body tissues. The final chapter deals with the prevention of uncontrolled liberation of kinins by proteinases, which is of great significance because the kinins are involved in the occurrence of pathological processes such as inflammation. Biologists and graduate students will find this book extremely useful.

EJB Reviews

EJB Reviews
Author: P. Christen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642852521

In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry set out to publish review articles. The enterprise proved successful, resulting in high-level reviews written by well-known scientists appearing in the Journal. The reviews represent emerging and rapidly growing fields of research in fundamental as well as applied areas of biochemistry, such as medicine, biotechnology, agriculture and nutrition. Novel methodological and technological approaches which stimulate biochemical research are also included. The authors of the reviews are explicitly asked to be critical, selective, evaluative and interdisciplinary oriented. The reviews should encourage young scientists to think independently and creatively, and inform active investigators about the state of the art in a given field.

Plant Protease Inhibitors

Plant Protease Inhibitors
Author: Yehudith Birk
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-04-08
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9783540001188

Plant protease inhibitors are diverse in number & specificity towards various proteolytic enzymes.

Proteinase Inhibitors

Proteinase Inhibitors
Author: Alan J. Barrett
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Total Pages: 694
Release: 1986
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

The twelfth volume in this well established series presents the latest research on proteinases, which are known or suspected to be implicated in many aspects of normal physiology and disease processes. In order to understand the nature of this involvement the researcher must repeatedly resort to our current understanding of proteinase inhibitors. The chapters in this book cover various approaches to the investigation and treatment of a wide variety of medical problems, including malignancy, arthritis, hypertension and coagulation disorders, viral, bacterial and parasitic infections, muscular dystrophy, pulmonary emphysema and neurological disease. Due to the level of sophistication of naturally occurring protein inhibitors, techniques such as X-ray crystallography are being used intensively, and the results are being fed back into the design of artificial inhibitors made chemically or by genetic engineering. Rapid technical progress in these synthetic methods encourages the full use of new information available, and the outcome is that a range of new drugs are in the stage of pre-clinical trials.

Protease Inhibitors as Cancer Chemopreventive Agents

Protease Inhibitors as Cancer Chemopreventive Agents
Author: A.R. Kennedy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461528828

Protease inhibitors (PIs) are widely distributed in plants and animals, and have a variety of functions, which include preventing digestion of seeds by insects and modifying blood clotting in animals. After it was noted that synthetic and natural inhibitors suppress two-stage carcinogenesis and breast cancer, extensive work investigating PIs as chemopreventive agents was started. PIs are unique in that they interfere with cancer development in a variety of ways, including suppression of oxygen radicals, oncogenes, and metastases. Epidemiologic evidence supports their prevention of major human cancers in populations that consume foods containing them. Their supervised use in humans is on the threshold of development. The epidemiologic discovery of the importance of lentils and other seeds rich in PIs in preventing many human cancers allowed us to look at the action of PIs as chemopreventive agents, as reviewed in Chapter I (Fontham and Correa). Chapter 2 (Kennedy) discusses the role of natural PIs (e. g. , the Bowman-Birk inhibitor) as anticarcinogens and the possible limitations of their use. In Chapter 3 (Kennedy), the transformation of C3HI lOTlh cells caused by carcinogens and promoters is shown to be suppressed by PIs. Bowman (Chapter 4) relates the discovery of inhibitors in soybeans that are distinct from the Kunitz inhibitor, and the occurrence of a similar inhibitor in peanuts and other legumes. Chapter 5 (Birk) is an overview of PIs of plant origin and their role in human nutrition.

Natural Products as Enzyme Inhibitors

Natural Products as Enzyme Inhibitors
Author: Vijay L. Maheshwari
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9811909326

This book provides an overview of the latest developments and future challenges in enzyme inhibitor research. It discusses the general enzyme inhibitory principles and mechanisms in enzyme activity regulation and application of enzyme inhibitors in different areas and sectors. The major areas of applications of enzyme inhibitors covered in this book are human health management, agriculture, food processing and research, which leads to drug discovery or enzyme activity mechanisms. The book also identifies the gaps in the existing knowledge and opens up new research ideas in this important area. Currently, most enzyme inhibitors are reported to inhibit various classes of enzymes. These enzyme inhibitors are the focus of the scientific community because they may answer an increasing array of questions in the research area of biological sciences, including biochemistry, medicine, physiology, pharmacy, agriculture, ecology etc. It also serves as a useful tool in the study of enzyme structures and reaction mechanisms and in the development of technologies in agriculture, food processing, and health management. Chapters in this book cover topics such as plant-derived inhibitors of serine proteases, pancreatic lipase (PL) inhibitors from indigenous medicinal plants, amylase inhibitors and their applications in agriculture and food processing industries and advances in silico techniques used in the study of enzyme inhibitors. The book will serve as a valuable resource for students and researchers in Life Sciences, agriculture, medicine, food processing, and allied industries.

Extracellular Targeting of Cell Signaling in Cancer

Extracellular Targeting of Cell Signaling in Cancer
Author: James W. Janetka
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2018-07-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119300185

International experts present innovative therapeutic strategies to treat cancer patients and prevent disease progression Extracellular Targeting of Cell Signaling in Cancer highlights innovative therapeutic strategies to treat cancer metastasis and prevent tumor progression. Currently, there are no drugs available to treat or prevent metastatic cancer other than non-selective, toxic chemotherapy. With contributions from an international panel of experts in the field, the book integrates diverse aspects of biochemistry, molecular biology, protein engineering, proteomics, cell biology, pharmacology, biophysics, structural biology, medicinal chemistry and drug development. A large class of proteins called kinases are enzymes required by cancer cells to grow, proliferate, and survive apoptosis (death) by the immune system. Two important kinases are MET and RON which are receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) that initiate cell signaling pathways outside the cell surface in response to extracellular ligands (growth factors.) Both kinases are oncogenes which are required by cancer cells to migrate away from the primary tumor, invade surrounding tissue and metastasize. MET and RON reside on both cancer cells and the support cells surrounding the tumor, called the microenvironment. MET and RON are activated by their particular ligands, the growth factors HGF and MSP, respectively. Blocking MET and RON kinase activation and downstream signaling is a promising therapeutic strategy for preventing tumor progression and metastasis. Written for cancer physicians and biologists as well as drug discovery and development teams in both industry and academia, this is the first book of its kind which explores novel approaches to inhibit MET and RON kinases other than traditional small molecule kinase inhibitors. These new strategies target key tumorigenic processes on the outside of the cell, such as growth factor activation by proteases. These unique strategies have promising potential as an improved alternative to kinase inhibitors, chemotherapy, or radiation treatment.

Protease Inhibitors: Potential and Constraints

Protease Inhibitors: Potential and Constraints
Author: Neha Khandelwal
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3656378479

Scientific Study from the year 2011 in the subject Biology - Human Biology, , course: Post Graduate Doctoral Studies, language: English, abstract: This book chapter covers the previous and current research on plant protease inhibitors being conducted worldwide since its identification. Plant protease inhibitors exists as natural defense mechanism in plants. Solanaceous plants have highly been explored for the protease inhibitor expression and function against various insects of the order lepidoptera, coleoptera, diptera and many more. Plant protease inhibitors are the well studied class of plant defensive proteins. High level of up-regulation upon insect damage, significantly elevated levels in reproductive and storage organs as well as specificity to pest proteases ascertain their defensive function. In the present chapter, we introduced molecular basis of plant-insect interactions and focused on different classes of protease inhibitors based on their target protease(s).