The periplasmic serine protease inhibitor ecotin protects bacteria against neutrophil elastase
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The periplasmic serine protease inhibitor ecotin protects bacteria against neutrophil elastase.
Ecotin is a dimeric periplasmic protein from Escherichia coli that has been shown to inhibit potently many trypsin-fold serine proteases of widely varying substrate specificity. To help elucidate the physiological function of ecotin, we examined the family of ecotin orthologues, which are present in a subset of Gram-negative bacteria. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that ecotin has an exogenous...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biochemical Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0264-6021,1470-8728
DOI: 10.1042/bj20031790