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Kinetic properties of toxic protease inhibitors isolated from tick eggs
N M Vermeulen1, G J Viljoen, J D Bezuidenhout
1Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
The International Journal of Biochemistry
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
1. Egg-toxins from Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi, Boophilus microplus, Boophilus decoloratus and Hyalomma truncatum were found to be inhibitors of trypsin and in two cases also of chymotrypsin. 2. Fast tight-binding and slow-binding inhibition were observed. 3. Immunological identity of the toxins were assessed with Ouchterlony immunodiffusion and ELISA. 4. The protease content of B. decoloratus and Amblyomma hebraeum tick eggs were determined by a linked enzyme assay. 5. The predictive value of the kinetic constants in inferring a possible physiological role was discussed.