Emerging principles in protease-based drug discovery

M Drag, GS Salvesen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2010 - nature.com
Proteases have an important role in many signalling pathways, and represent potential drug
targets for diseases ranging from cardiovascular disorders to cancer, as well as for …

Metacaspases

L Tsiatsiani, F Van Breusegem, P Gallois… - Cell Death & …, 2011 - nature.com
Metacaspases are cysteine-dependent proteases found in protozoa, fungi and plants and
are distantly related to metazoan caspases. Although metacaspases share structural …

Identification of direct protein targets of small molecules

B Lomenick, RW Olsen, J Huang - ACS chemical biology, 2011 - ACS Publications
Small-molecule target identification is a vital and daunting task for the chemical biology
community as well as for researchers interested in applying the power of chemical genetics …

Intracellular substrate cleavage: a novel dimension in the biochemistry, biology and pathology of matrix metalloproteinases

B Cauwe, G Opdenakker - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), originally discovered to function in the breakdown of
extracellular matrix proteins, have gained the status of regulatory proteases in signaling …

Caspase substrates and inhibitors

M Poręba, A Stróżyk… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Caspases are proteases at the heart of networks that govern apoptosis and inflammation.
The past decade has seen huge leaps in understanding the biology and chemistry of the …

Global identification of peptidase specificity by multiplex substrate profiling

AJ O'donoghue, AA Eroy-Reveles, GM Knudsen… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We developed a simple and rapid multiplex substrate-profiling method to reveal the
substrate specificity of any endo-or exopeptidase using liquid chromatography–tandem …

Selecting protein N-terminal peptides by combined fractional diagonal chromatography

A Staes, F Impens, P Van Damme, B Ruttens… - Nature protocols, 2011 - nature.com
In recent years, procedures for selecting the N-terminal peptides of proteins with analysis by
mass spectrometry have been established to characterize protease-mediated cleavage and …

The DegraBase: a database of proteolysis in healthy and apoptotic human cells

ED Crawford, JE Seaman, N Agard, GW Hsu… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2013 - ASBMB
Proteolysis is a critical post-translational modification for regulation of cellular processes.
Our lab has previously developed a technique for specifically labeling unmodified protein N …

Protease signaling in animal and plant‐regulated cell death

GS Salvesen, A Hempel, NS Coll - The FEBS journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This review aims to highlight the proteases required for regulated cell death mechanisms in
animals and plants. The aim is to be incisive, and not inclusive of all the animal proteases …

Proteome-wide analysis of protein carboxy termini: C terminomics

O Schilling, O Barré, PF Huesgen, CM Overall - Nature methods, 2010 - nature.com
As proteome-wide C-terminal sequence analysis has been largely intractable, we
developed a polymer-based enrichment approach to profile protein C-terminal peptides by …