E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Web PDF
Church / Cunningham / Ginsburg Chemistry and Biology of Serpins
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4615-5391-5
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Web PDF
Reihe: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
ISBN: 978-1-4615-5391-5
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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I. Introduction.- 1. Serpins: From the Way It Was to the Way It Is.- 2. Serpins: A Mechanistic Class of Their Own.- II. Coagulation.- 3. Antithrombin: A Bloody Important Serpin.- 4. Heparin Cofactor II.- 5. PCI: Protein C Inhibitor?.- 6. Molecular Basis for the Resistance of Fibrin-Bound Thrombin to Inactivation by Heparin/Serpin Complexes.- III. Neurobiology and Cancer.- 7. Regulation of Neurons and Astrocytes by Thrombin and Protease Nexin-1: Relationship to Brain Injury.- 8. Maspin: A Tumor Suppressing Serpin.- 9. Proteases and Protease Inhibitors in Tumor Progression.- IV. Fibrinolysis.- 10. The Role of Reactive-Center Loop Mobility in the Serpin Inhibitory Mechanism.- 11. Substrate Specificity of Tissue Type Plasminogen Activator.- 12. Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type-2: A Spontaneously Polymerizing Serpin that Exists in Two Topological Forms.- 13. Of Mice and Men: The Function of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitors (PAIs) in Vivo.- V. Development and Reproduction.- 14. Biology of Progesterone-Induced Uterine Serpins.- 15. Serpins from an Insect, Manduca sexta.- 16. The Significance of Serpins in the Regulation of Proteases in the Male Genital Tract.- VI. Inflammation.- 17. Serpins and Programmed Cell Death.- 18. C 1 Inhibitor: Functional Analysis of Naturally-Occurring Mutant Proteins.- 19. Serp-1, a Poxvirus-Encoded Serpin, Is Expressed as a Secreted Glycoprotein that Inhibits the Inflammatory Response to Myxoma Virus Infection.- 20. Dysfunctional Variants and the Structural Biology of the Serpins.- VI. Noninhibitor Serpins.- 21. Structure-Function Studies on PEDF: A Noninhibitory Serpin with Neurotrophic Activity.- 22. Colligin, a Collagen Binding Serpin.- VII. Abstracts.- Coagulation, Neurobiology, and Cancer.- Fibrinolysis, Development, and Reproduction.- Inflammation and Noninhibitor Serpins.- Contributors.
