REKOMBINANTER PROTEASEINHIBITOR DES ALZHEIMER- AMYLOID-PROTEINS

• Main Authors: SCHILLING, JAMES W., JR, PONTE, PHYLLIS A, CORDELL, BARBARA
• Format: Patent
• Language: German
• Published: 15.11.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PHYSICS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROCESSES USING MICROORGANISMS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

An analog of human amyloid plaque core protein protease inhibitor wherein the amino acid corresponding to arginine at position 13 in the sequence is substituted with an aromatic amino acid, said analog exhibiting chymotrypsin inhibitory activity or is substituted with a neutral hydrophobic amino acid, said analog exhibiting human elastase inhibitory activity and method of producing them. Use of the protease inhibitor in the manufacture of a medicament for use in treating acute pancreatitis and method of recovering purified protease inhibitor.