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  • Pereira, P.J.B.; Bergner, A.; Macedo-Ribeiro, S.; Huber, R.; Matschiner, G.; Fritz, H.; Sommerhoff, C.P.; Bode, W.
    Human b-tryptase is a ring-like tetramer with active sites facing a central pore (1998), Nature, 392, 306-311.
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Application

Application Comment Organism
medicine potent and selective inhibitor of tryptase will be an essential tool to determine the role of tryptase in inflammation and other processes, tryptase plays a role in asthma and other allergic and inflammatory skin diseases like psoriasis and atopic dermatitis Homo sapiens

Crystallization (Commentary)

Crystallization (Comment) Organism
3A crystal structure in a complex with 4-amidinophenyl pyruvic acid, large crystals of the tetragonal space group P4(1) with cell axes a = b = 82.93 A Homo sapiens

General Stability

General Stability Organism
stabilized by heparin proteoglycans Homo sapiens

Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
LDTI only naturally occuring inhibitor, leech-derived tryptase inhibitor Homo sapiens

Localization

Localization Comment Organism GeneOntology No. Textmining
secretory granule
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Homo sapiens 30141
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Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Homo sapiens
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human
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Purification (Commentary)

Purification (Comment) Organism
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Homo sapiens

Substrates and Products (Substrate)

Substrates Comment Substrates Organism Products Comment (Products) Rev. Reac.
fibrinogen + H2O
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Homo sapiens fibrinogen fragments
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additional information 4 closely related isoenzymes, tryptase alpha, I tryptase, tryptase II/beta and III tryptase, preferentially cleaves peptide substrates carboxy-terminal to arginine and lysine residues, hydrolyses bronchodilatatory neuropeptides, vasoactive intestinal peptide and peptide histidine methionine in vitro, cleaves fibrinogen and fibronectin inactivating, and activating the zymogens of stromelysin-1 and urokinase-type plasminogen activator Homo sapiens ?
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Subunits

Subunits Comment Organism
tetramer
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Homo sapiens

Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
human beta-tryptase
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Homo sapiens