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:BmSI-7 and BmSI-6, two Boophilus microplus subtilisin inhibitors (BmSI) were purified and characterized from eggs. The inhibitors isolated by classical purification methods presented molecular masses of 7408 and 7271Da, respectively, by MALDI-TOF-MS. Both BmSI-7 and BmSI-6 inhibited neutrophil elastase (K(i) 0.4 and 0.3nM) and subtilisin A (K(i) 1.4nM for both inhibitors). They also strongly inhibited Pr1 proteases from the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae; BmSI-7 (K(i) 50nM) and BmSI-6 (K(i) 2.2nM). The BmSI-7 full length cDNA was obtained using amino acid sequence information of BmSI-7 peptides generated by proteolytic digestion. BmSI-7 belongs to trypsin inhibitor like cysteine rich domain family (TIL), and it is transcribed in ovary, fat body, gut, salivary gland and haemocytes. BmSI-7 is the first TIL inhibitor described with inhibitory activity toward subtilisin A and Pr1 proteases of entomopathogenic fungi.
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Exp Parasitoljournal_title
Experimental parasitologyauthors
Sasaki SD,de Lima CA,Lovato DV,Juliano MA,Torquato RJ,Tanaka ASdoi
10.1016/j.exppara.2007.08.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-02-01 00:00:00pages
214-20issue
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0014-4894issn
1090-2449pii
S0014-4894(07)00210-Xjournal_volume
118pub_type
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