conclusions our results showed that c. albicans was the most frequently isolated from both patients with vaginitis and normal individual. in the present study, we could not find any correlation between extracellular activities and sources of isolates (patients and normal flora) and sensitivity or resistance to fluconazole. background extracellular phospholipase, proteinase, and coagulase are ac...

We have purified and characterized a neutral proteinase activity from pig uterine myometrium. The proteinase co-purified with the actomyosin complex and could only be separated from it by a high concentration of a chaotropic ion, 3M-NaBr. The proteinase was further purified by gel filtration and affinity chromatography. The purified protein showed a single band on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyac...

Slime and proteinase activity of 54 strains consisting of 19 Candida parapsilosis and 35 C. albicans strains isolated from blood samples were investigated in this study. Ketoconazole, amphothericin B, and fluconazole susceptibility of Candida species were compared with slime production and proteinase activity of these species. For both Candida species, no correlation was detected between the sl...

Autographa californica multiple nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) contains a 966 bp ORF that encodes a papain type cysteine proteinase with cathepsin L-like characteristics. Using Western blot analysis of infected cell extracts we showed that v-cath proteinase has 35.5 kDa and 32 kDa precursor forms which are processed to a 27.5 kDa mature form in a manner characteristic of papain and catheps...

BACKGROUND The defensive effect of endogenous trypsin proteinase inhibitors (NaTPIs) on the herbivore Manduca sexta was demonstrated by genetically altering NaTPI production in M. sexta's host plant, Nicotiana attenuata. To understand how this defense works, we studied the effects of NaTPI on M. sexta gut proteinase activity levels in different larval instars of caterpillars feeding freely on u...

1. Lysosomal proteinase activity was assayed in human cadaver kidney, urine, granules from poly­ morphonuclear leucocytes of normal persons, and urine samples from 154 patients with renal disease. 2. Granules from polymorphonuclear leuco­ cytes showed proteinase activity at acid and neutral pH, whereas cadaver kidney showed proteinase activity at acid pH only. 3. The urine from 13 patients with...

An account of previous work on cathepsin may be found in the monograph of Pozzi (1935). In the hemoglobin method for the estimation of protelnase, denatured hemoglobin is digested and the digestion products not precipitable by trichloracefic acid are estimated colorimetrically. Hemoglobin, unlike commercial casein, edestin, and gelatin, is a reproducible substrate, Only the very first stages of...

Increasing levels of inhibitors that target cysteine and/or serine proteinases were fed to Tribolium castaneum larvae, and the properties of digestive proteinases were compared in vitro. Cysteine proteinases were the major digestive proteinase class in control larvae, and serine proteinase activity was minor. Dietary serine proteinase inhibitors had minimal effects on either the developmental t...