interpain

English

Noun

interpain (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) A cysteine proteinase obtained from Prevotella intermedia
   • 2015 July 15, “Early Cytokine Response to Infection with Pathogenic vs Non-Pathogenic Organisms in a Mouse Model of Endodontic Infection”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Val-Leu-Lys is a substrate for interpain, however, the measured activity was not blocked by the cysteine protease inhibitor E64 (data not shown), suggesting that serine proteases, even including host proteases such as plasmin may be responsible for this activity.

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• Pinterian