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INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 569-579Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.0962-1075.2004.00504.x
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Triatoma infestans; cathepsin B; cathepsin L; cysteine proteinase; midgut
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Cathepsin B- and cathepsin L-like activities were identified in gut extracts of the blood-sucking bug Triatoma infestans using specific substrates and inhibitors. Activities decreased during the first 2 days after feeding but increased to a maximum value at 5 and 10 days post feeding. The deduced 332 and 328 amino acid sequences showed high levels of identity (50-60%) to other insect cathepsin B- and L-like proteases, respectively. The three amino acid residues of the catalytic domain, CHN, and the GCNGG motif were conserved in both cathepsins, but the occluding loop, characterizing B-like cathepsins, was present only in one. ERFNIN and GNFD motifs occurred in the other sequence, defining it as cathepsin L-like. The cathepsin B-like gene was expressed at low, constitutive levels in unfed and fed T. infestans.
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