Proteases: multifunctional enzymes in life and disease

C López-Otín, JS Bond - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2008 - ASBMB
October 1, 1905 (1). Today, after more than 100 years and 350,000 articles on these
enzymes in the scientific literature, proteases remain at the cutting edge of biological …

Unleashing the therapeutic potential of human kallikrein-related serine proteases

I Prassas, A Eissa, G Poda… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Tissue kallikreins are a family of fifteen secreted serine proteases encoded by the largest
protease gene cluster in the human genome. In the past decade, substantial progress has …

Current insights into the metastasis of epithelial ovarian cancer-hopes and hurdles

M Yousefi, S Dehghani, R Nosrati, M Ghanei… - Cellular Oncology, 2020 - Springer
Background Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer and the fifth leading
cause of cancer-related mortality in women worldwide. Despite various attempts to improve …

Biomarkers for prostate cancer detection and risk stratification

MW Farha, SS Salami - Therapeutic advances in urology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Although prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men, most
patients do not die from the disease. Prostate specific antigen (PSA), the most widely used …

Beyond the biomarker role: prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the prostate cancer microenvironment

A Moradi, S Srinivasan, J Clements, J Batra - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2019 - Springer
The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test is the accepted biomarker of tumor
recurrence. PSA levels in serum correlate with disease progression, though its diagnostic …

Sexual conflict and seminal fluid proteins: a dynamic landscape of sexual interactions

LK Sirot, A Wong, T Chapman… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Sexual reproduction requires coordinated contributions from both sexes to proceed
efficiently. However, the reproductive strategies that the sexes adopt often have the potential …

Functional roles of human kallikrein-related peptidases

G Sotiropoulou, G Pampalakis… - Journal of Biological …, 2009 - ASBMB
Kallikrein-related peptidases constitute a single family of 15 (chymo) trypsin-like proteases
(KLK1–15) with pleiotropic physiological roles. Aberrant regulation of KLKs has been …

Network analyses reveal pervasive functional regulation between proteases in the human protease web

N Fortelny, JH Cox, R Kappelhoff, AE Starr… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Proteolytic processing is an irreversible posttranslational modification affecting a large
portion of the proteome. Protease-cleaved mediators frequently exhibit altered activity, and …

The tumor proteolytic landscape: a challenging frontier in cancer diagnosis and therapy

M Vizovisek, D Ristanovic, S Menghini… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, dysregulation of proteases and atypical proteolysis have become
increasingly recognized as important hallmarks of cancer, driving community-wide efforts to …

Integrated 3D view of postmating responses by the Drosophila melanogaster female reproductive tract, obtained by micro-computed tomography scanning

AL Mattei, ML Riccio, FW Avila… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Physiological changes in females during and after mating are triggered by seminal fluid
components in conjunction with female-derived molecules. In insects, these changes …