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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 267, Issue 7, Pages 2046-2053Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01207.x
Keywords
anti-fungal; serine protease inhibitor; insect immunity; Galleria mellonella; Metarhizium anisopliae
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM41247, R37 GM041247] Funding Source: Medline
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Three inducible serine protease inhibitors (ISPI-1, 2, 3) have been purified from larval hemolymph of greater wax moth larvae, Galleria mellonella, and characterized at a molecular level. These inhibitors were synthesized after larvae were injected with a yeast polysaccharide, zymosan preparation. ISPI-1,2,3 were active against various serine proteases including trypsin and toxic proteases released by the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae. Precipitation by trichloroacetic acid and heat, followed by FPLC and HPLC separation steps were used for purification of the protease inhibitors from cell-free hemolymph samples. The molecular masses of purified proteins were determined by MS to be 9.2 kDa (ISPI-1), 6.3 kDa (ISPI-2) and 8.2 kDa (ISPI-3) with isoelectric points ranging between 7.2 and 8.3. The N-terminal amino-acid sequences of ISPI-1 and ISPI-3 are not similar to other known proteins, whereas that of ISPI-2 exhibits extensive similarity to known Kunitz-type protease inhibitors.
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