Prospects for the design of new therapeutically significant protease inhibitors based on knottins and sunflower seed trypsin inhibitor (SFTI 1)

   
Kuznetsova S.S.1 , Kolesanova E.F.1, Talanova A.V.2, Veselovsky A.V.1

1. Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
2. Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
Section: Review
DOI: 10.18097/PBMC20166204353      PubMed Id: 27562989
Year: 2016  Volume: 62  Issue: 4  Pages: 353-368
Plant seed knottins, mainly from the Cucurbitacea family, and sunflower seed trypsin inhibitor (SFTI 1) are the most low-molecular canonical peptide inhibitors of serine proteases. High efficiency of inhibition of various serine proteases, structure rigidity together with the possibility of limited variations of amino acid sequences, high chemical stability, lack of toxic properties, opportunity of production by either chemical synthesis or use of heterologous expression systems make these inhibitors attractive templates for design of new compounds for regulation of therapeutically significant serine protease activities. Hence the design of such compounds represents a prospective research field. The review considers structural characteristics of these inhibitors, their properties, methods of preparation and design of new analogs. Examples of successful employment of natural serine protease inhibitors belonging to knottin family and SFTI 1 as templates for the design of highly specific inhibitors of certain proteases are given.
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Keywords: serine proteases, inhibitors, knottins, design of peptide inhibitors of proteases
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Kuznetsova, S. S., Kolesanova, E. F., Talanova, A. V., Veselovsky, A. V. (2016). Prospects for the design of new therapeutically significant protease inhibitors based on knottins and sunflower seed trypsin inhibitor (SFTI 1). Biomeditsinskaya Khimiya, 62(4), 353-368.
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