Space-filling model of elastaseCrystals of porcine elastase
In molecular biology, elastase is an enzyme from the class of proteases (peptidases) that break down proteins.[1] In particular, it is a serine protease.[2]
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for elastase: Some bacteria (including Pseudomonas aeruginosa) also produce elastase. In bacteria, elastase is considered a virulence factor. Elastase breaks...
Pancreatic elastase is a form of elastase that is produced in the acinar cells of the pancreas, initially produced as an inactive zymogen and later activated...
Macrophage elastase (EC 3.4.24.65, metalloelastase, human macrophage metalloelastase (HME), MMP-12) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical...
Chymotrypsin-like elastase family member 3B also known as elastase-3B, protease E, or fecal elastase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CELA3B...
parasites. In alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, the important neutrophil elastase is not adequately inhibited by alpha 1-antitrypsin, leading to excessive...
their substrate specificity as either trypsin-like, chymotrypsin-like or elastase-like. Trypsin-like proteases cleave peptide bonds following a positively...
Pancreatic elastase II (EC 3.4.21.71, pancreatic elastase 2) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction Preferential cleavage:...
Elaszym may refer to one of two enzymes: Pancreatic elastase Neutrophil elastase This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elaszym...
'moderate' EPI is when fecal elastase levels are <200 ug/g, whereas 'severe' EPI is considered to be when fecal elastase levels is <100 ug/g. The exocrine...
Pseudolysin (EC 3.4.24.26, Pseudomonas elastase, Pseudomonas aeruginosa neutral metalloproteinase) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical...
Leukocyte elastase inhibitor (LEI) also known as serpin B1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB1 gene. It is a member of the clade B serpins...
system, inhibit neutrophil elastase strongly while ecotin from the plant pathogen Pantoea citrea inhibits neutrophil elastase 1000-fold less potently. Ecotins...
Each family may contain many hundreds of related proteases (e.g. trypsin, elastase, thrombin and streptogrisin within the S1 family). Currently more than...
protein that in humans is encoded by the PI3 gene. This gene encodes an elastase-specific protease inhibitor, which contains a WAP-type four-disulfide core...
seminal fluids. SLPI inhibits human leukocyte elastase, human cathepsin G, human trypsin, neutrophil elastase, and mast cell chymase. X-ray crystallography...
Presence of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (according to monoclonal fecal elastase-1 or direct function tests). Pathological pancreatic imaging: (by endoscopic...
Littré. Smegma contains cathepsin B, lysozymes, chymotrypsin, neutrophil elastase and cytokines, which aid the immune system. According to Wright, the production...
amount of elastase production and tissue invasion was first discovered in 1984. Clinical isolates have also been found to have greater elastase activity...
induced) and the elastase model (non-dissecting, chemically induced model). A recent study has shown that β-Aminopropionitrile plus elastase application to...
Oleanolic acid is also used as standard for comparison of hyaluronidase, elastase and matrix-metalloproteinase-1 inhibition of other substances in primary...
breakdown of the connective tissue of the lungs by proteases (particularly elastase) that are insufficiently inhibited by protease inhibitors. The destruction...
contraction. She and her husband József Mátyás Baló discovered the first elastase – an enzyme capable of degrading the protein elastin which gives tissues...
mostly caused by heterozygous mutations in the ELANE gene (neutrophil elastase). Neutropenia can be acute (temporary) or chronic (long lasting). The term...
response involves the proteolysis of type XVII collagen by neutrophil elastase in response to DNA damage in hair follicle stem cells. Proteolysis of collagen...
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