Journal of Plant Biochemistry & Physiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2329-9029
ISSN: 2329-9029
Department of Physiology, Vidya Pratishthan’s Arts, Commerce and Science College, Baramati, India
Review Article
Protease Inhibitors: Defensive Proteins in Plants
Author(s): Mahesh Chandre* and Tushar Borse
One of the biggest and most varied groups of enzymes that specifically catalyze the hydrolysis of peptide bonds in proteins is the protease family (E.C. 3.4). They can be divided into serine, cysteine, aspartic, threonine, glutamic acid and metalloproteases based on the catalytic kinds they possess. Serine PIs predominate among them, followed by metalloproteases and cysteine PIs; aspartic and glutamic PIs are uncommon and distributed throughout several groups. The most researched, well-characterized and widely distributed class of plant PIs are serine PIs. Protease Inhibitors (PIs) are molecules that thwart the proteases proteolytic activities and are essential for controlling the body's protein catabolism. Fermi and Pernossi were the first to report on the presence of PIs in nature... View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2329-9029.25.13.344