Cold agglutinin disease is a rare autoimmune hemolytic anemia characterized by hemolysis that caused activation of the classic complement pathway. Sutimlimab, humanized monoclonal antibody, selectively targets C1s protein, C1 complex serine protease responsible for activating this

Fusobacterium nucleatum is an oral anaerobe associated with periodontal disease, adverse pregnancy outcomes and colorectal carcinoma. A serine endopeptidase of 61-65 kDa capable of damaging host tissue and of inactivating immune effectors was detected previously in F. nucleatum. Here we describe the identification of this serine protease, named fusolisin, in three oral F. nucleatum sub-species....

Background: To investigate the levels and clinical significance of serum homocysteine (Hcy), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), visceral adipose tissue-derived serine protease inhibitor (vaspin), fat-specific adipokine (visfatin) in elderly patients with different types coronary heart disease (CHD).

Probing of the mouse EST data base at GenBank trade mark with known tryptase cDNAs resulted in the identification of undiscovered serine protease transcripts whose genes reside at a 1.5-Mb complex on mouse chromosome 17A3.3. Mouse tryptase-5 (mT5), tryptase-6 (mT6), and mast cell protease-11 (mMCP-11) are new members of this serine protease superfamily whose amino acid sequences are 36-54% iden...

kinetics of bacterial growth and protease production were monitored on a novel isolated moderately halophilic bacterium, salinivibrio sp. strain ms-7, and maximum growth and protease activity was achieved after 48 hours at 30°c and 180 rpm. to determine the effect of various carbon sources on protease production, glucose, lactose, sucrose and maltose were investigated and  maximum production of...

The infective third-stage larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis secrete a proteolytic enzyme that is thought to be essential for both larval penetration into the intestinal wall of the host and full development. Protease activity in these larvae during culture in vitro was determined by zymography, pH optimum, and substrate and inhibitor specificity. Excretory-secretory (ES) products of the thi...

Serine protease cascades boost immune responses while maintaining homeostasis. These crucial actions are intricately regulated by cognate serine protease inhibitors. However, the mechanism underlying such a dynamic immunomodulation during acute phase infection remains obscure, particularly where the pathogen's serine protease adds a new challenge to the host. Here, we found that infection of ho...

The use of antifibrinolytic therapy is commonplace in coronary artery revascularization procedures. Cardiac surgery accounts for more than 700,000 surgeries per year, with approximately 70% of these cases requiring antifibrinolytic therapy for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures. Two main classes of antifibrinolytics are used in CABG procedures: synthetic lysine analogues and serine ...

the aim of this study was to clone the serine alkaline protease-encoding gene from bacillus subtilis 168. this protease, which can have many applications especially in detergent, may be industrially an important enzyme. for the amplification of the gene, pcr was performed with a pair of primers specifically designed for this purpose. electrophoresis of the pcr product showed the expected band o...