Proteases in Physiology and Pathology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Chakraborti, Sajal; Dhalla, Naranjan S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a comprehensive investigation into the regulation of proteases and their pathological consequences

Explores the specific inhibitors and molecular probes for proteases to improve therapy for various diseases

Serves as valuable resource for those involved in improving protease-targeted therapeutic approaches of life-threatening diseases

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 619
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811025136
• Artikelnr.: 53034743

Autorenporträt

Dr. Sajal Chakraborti is a senior Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. His research covers the role of proteases in regulating pulmonary vascular tone under oxidant and calcium signaling phenomena. He has been engaged in teaching and research in biochemistry for the past 40 years. Dr. Naranjan S Dhalla is a distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. His expertise includes the subcellular and molecular basis of heart function in health and disease. He has been engaged in multidisciplinary research and education for promoting the scientific basis of cardiology, as well as training of professional manpower for combating heart disease for over 45 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Physiological and Pathological Functions of Mitochondrial Proteases.- The Role of MMP2 and 9 in Embryonic Neural Crest Cells and their Derivatives.- The matrix metalloproteinase and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase balance in physiologicaland pathological remodeling of skeletal muscles.- Role of BMP1/ tolloid like proteases in bone morphogenesis and tissue remodeling.- Role of proteases in the regulation of N-myristoyltransferase.- Role of Tissue Factor-FVIIa Blood Coagulation Initiation complex in Cancer.- Metalloproteases in adaptive cell responses.- Proteases from protozoa and their role in infection.-Regulation of Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Matrix Metalloproteinases: Decisive Candidates in Tumor Progression.- Proteases and Protease Inhibitors in Male Reproduction.- Physiological and Pathological Functions of Cysteine Cathepsins.- Role of serine proteases and inhibitors in cancer.- Role of Proteases in diabetes and diabetic complications.- Plant Latex Proteases: Natural Wound Healers.- Emerging Role of Mitochondrial Serine Protease HtrA2 in Neurodegeneration.- Functional Relevance of Deubiquitinases in Life and Disease.- Sub-Mitochondrial Calpains in Pathophysiological Consequences.- Serine Proteases in the Lectin Pathway of the Complement System.- Pups, SAMPs and Prokaryotic Proteasomes.- Role of Proteases in Photoaging of Skin.- Insect proteases: Structural-functional outlook.- Protease-antiprotease interactions: an overview of the process from an in silico perspective.- Snake venom proteases as toxins and tools.- The world of the proteases across micros, insects and medicinal trees.- Insight into the mode of interactions between bacterial proteases and their substrates.- The Ubiquitin Proteasome System with itsChecks and Balances.- A brief account of structure function relationship of the traditional cysteine protease inhibitor-cystatin with a special focus on human family 1 & 2 cystatins.- Solid Support Synthesis of a Dnp-labeled Peptide for Assay of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2.