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Query: EC:3.4.21.1 (chymotrypsin)
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Various electrophoretic techniques, immunoblotting and inhibitions of trypsin and chymotrypsin were used to study the variability of serum proteins in farmed red deer, Cervus elaphus L., of Czechoslovakian origin. Easily interpretable polymorphisms were observed in transferrin (variants A, B1, B2, C) and vitamin D binding protein, GC (variants D, F, I, S). Great variability was observed in the protease inhibitors PI2, PI3, PI4, PI5, and PI8 and in unidentified zones in the vicinity of albumin, but no genetical or physiological interpretation for this variability is yet available. Haemopexin, alpha 1 glycoprotein, protease inhibitors PI1, PI6 and PI7 were monomorphic.
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PMID:Variation of some serum proteins in red deer, Cervus elaphus L. 226 75

The sequences of urokinase (UK) and tissue-type plasminogen activator (TPA) were aligned with those of chymotrypsin, trypsin, and elastase according to their 'structurally conserved regions'. In spite of its trypsin-like specificity UK was model-built on the basis of the chymotrypsin structure because of a corresponding disulfide pattern. The extra disulfide bond falls to cysteines 50 and 111d. Insertions can easily be accommodated at the surface. As they occur similarly in both, UK and TPA, a role in plasminogen recognition may be possible. Of the functional positions known to be involved in substrate or inhibitor binding, Asp 97, Lys 143 and Arg 217 (Leu in TPA) may contribute to plasminogen activating specificity. PTI binding may in part be impaired by structural differences at the edge of the binding pocket.
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PMID:Adaptation of plasminogen activator sequences to known protease structures. 634 97

A cDNA encoding of the serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin), B-43, was cloned from the cDNA library of the bovine brain. It encoded 378 amino acids, and the MW of the protein was estimated to be 42.6 kDa, which is consistent with that of the native B-43 purified from the bovine brain. The homology search revealed that B-43 belongs to the ovalbumin branch of the serpin superfamily. Among them, B-43 was most homologous to human placental thrombin inhibitor (PI-6) and its murine counterpart, with the amino acid identity of 76% and 71%, respectively. Northern blot analysis showed that the size of the transcript was 1.4 kb, and that the expression of B-43 in the bovine brain varied depending on the brain regions, i.e. a lower level of expression was observed in the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus compared to the level of expression that was observed in the medulla oblongata. [35S]-labeled B-43 protein was synthesized in vitro by using a rabbit reticulocyte lysate system, which formed complexes with proteinases such as thrombin, trypsin, alpha-chymotrypsin, and 7S nerve growth factor (NGF), but not with urokinase or plasmin. These results, together with the immunohistochemical localization of B-43 in astrocytes and in some neurons which was observed in the previous study suggest that B-43 may be involved in the regulation of serine proteinases present in the brain or extravasated from the blood.
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PMID:Cloning of a serine proteinase inhibitor from bovine brain: expression in the brain and characterization of its target proteinases. 901 86