(PDF) Proteases in Physiology and Pathology by Sajal Chakraborti

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Table of Contents

Physiological and Pathological Functions of Mitochondrial Proteases.- The Role of MMP2 and 9 in Embryonic Neural Crest Cells and their Derivatives.- The matrix metalloproteinase and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase balance in physiologicaland pathological remodeling of skeletal muscles.- Role of BMP1/ tolloid like proteases in bone morphogenesis and tissue remodeling.- Role of proteases in the regulation of N-myristoyltransferase.- Role of Tissue Factor-FVIIa Blood Coagulation Initiation complex in Cancer.- Metalloproteases in adaptive cell responses.- Proteases from protozoa andtheir role in infection.-Regulation of Extracellular Matrix Remodeling andEpithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Matrix Metalloproteinases: Decisive Candidates in Tumor Progression.-Proteases and Protease Inhibitors in Male Reproduction.- Physiological and Pathological Functions ofCysteine Cathepsins.- Role of serine proteases and inhibitors in cancer.- Role of Proteases in diabetes and diabetic complications.-Plant Latex Proteases: Natural Wound Healers.- Emerging Role of Mitochondrial Serine Protease HtrA2 in Neurodegeneration.- Functional Relevance of Deubiquitinases in Life and Disease.- Sub-Mitochondrial Calpains in Pathophysiological Consequences.-Serine Proteases in the Lectin Pathway of the Complement System.-Pups, SAMPs and Prokaryotic Proteasomes.-Role of Proteases in Photoaging of Skin.-Insect proteases: Structural-functional outlook.-Protease-antiprotease interactions:an overview of the process from anin silicoperspective.- Snake venom proteases as toxins and tools.-The world of the proteases across micros, insects and medicinal trees.-Insight into the mode of interactions between bacterial proteases and their substrates.-The Ubiquitin Proteasome System with itsChecks and Balances.-A brief account of structure function relationship of the traditional cysteine protease inhibitor-cystatin with a special focus on human family 1 & 2 cystatins.-Solid Support Synthesis of a Dnp-labeled Peptide for Assay of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2.