Enzymes play vital roles in diverse industrial sectors and are essential components of many
industrial products. Immobilized enzymes possess higher resistance to environmental …

Pea (Pisum sativum) is an important source of nutritional components and is rich in protein,
starch, and fiber. Pea protein is considered a high-quality protein and a functional ingredient …

Plants evolve to synthesize various natural metabolites to protect themselves against
threats, such as insects, predators, microorganisms, and environmental conditions (such as …

Cystatins are endogenous and reversible inhibitors of cysteine peptidases that are important
players in cancer progression. Besides their primary role as regulators of cysteine peptidase …

Protease inhibitors (PIs) are regulatory proteins found in numerous animal tissues and
fluids, plants, and microorganisms that reduce and inhibit the exacerbated and uncontrolled …

The increase in non-communicable chronic diseases has aroused interest in the research of
adjuvants to the classic forms of treatments. Obesity and metabolic syndrome are the main …

Snake venoms present a great diversity of pharmacologically active compounds that may be
applied as research and biotechnological tools, as well as in drug development and …

Kunitz domain-containing proteins are ubiquitous serine protease inhibitors with promising
therapeutic potential. They target key proteases involved in major cellular processes such as …

Marine organisms are rich sources of enzymes and their inhibitors having enormous
therapeutic potential. Among different proteolytic enzymes, serine proteases, which can be …

Almost half of known plant viral species rely on proteolytic cleavages as key co-and post-
translational modifications throughout their infection cycle. Most of these viruses encode …