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S Isemura, E Saitoh, S Ito, M Isemura, K Sanada.
Abstract
An acidic protein of human saliva, which we named SAP-1 previously, is now shown to be an inhibitor of several cysteine proteinases. The protein inhibited papain and ficin strongly, and stem bromelain and bovine cathepsin C partially. However, it did not inhibit either porcine cathepsin B or clostripain. The mode of the inhibition of papain was found to be non-competitive. The name cystatin S has been proposed for this salivary protein in view of the similarities in activity and structure to other cysteine proteinase inhibitors such as chicken egg-white cystatin and human cystatins A, B, and C. The cystatin S antigen was detected immunohistochemically in the serous cells of human parotid and submaxillary glands.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6394600 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a134952
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biochem ISSN: 0021-924X Impact factor: 3.387