Chronic wounds represent an aberrant biochemistry that creates a toxic proteolytic milieu which can be detrimental to the healing process. Rebalancing the wound microenvironment and addressing elevated protease activity (EPA) could therefore help facilitate healing. To understand how clinicians currently diagnose and manage excessive proteolytic activity, 183 survey responses from US wound spec...

Lon protease, an ATP-dependent protease in Escherichia coli, degrades abnormal proteins and regulates several important cellular functions. Here we show novel inhibitory effects of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on Lon protease activities. LPS inhibited the peptidase, protease, and ATPase activities of Lon; and a dose-response study showed that LPS at low doses more effectively inhibited the ATPase a...