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The Importance of Correct Protein Concentration for Kinetics and Affinity Determination in Structure-function Analysis
Published on: March 17, 2010
[Research progress on cystatin of parasitic nematodes]
1State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China.
Abstract:
Cystatins are reversibly tight-binding natural inhibitors of cysteine proteases. Cystatins in parasitic nematodes not only have the unique inhibition activity on cysteine proteases but also modulate the host immune response and have an important role in the immune evasion from host response and the adaptation to parasitism. This article reviews the classification, structure characteristics and function mechanism of cystatins, and the research progress on cystatins in parasitic nematodes.

