| ERI | E-rosette inhibitor |
|---|---|
| HCI | Health Commons Institute; human collagenase inhibitor |
| HII | Health Industries Institute; Health Insurance Institute; hemagglutination inhibitor immunoassay |
| HPTIN | human pancreatic trypsin inhibitor |
| HSI | heat stress index; human seminal plasma inhibitor |
| thiol proteinase | Proteases that have an active thiol group. Includes papain and ficin. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| easter proteinase | <enzyme> Amino acid sequence of light chain from drosophila has high homology with light chain of tachypleus proclotting enzyme Registry number: EC 3.4.21.- Synonym: easter gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| Endothia aspartic proteinase | <enzyme> Microbial aspartic proteinase (EC 3.4.23.6, formerly EC 3.4.23.10); from chestnut blight fungus endothia parasitica Registry number: EC 3.4.23.- Synonym: endothiapepsin (26 Jun 1999) |
| Escherichia coli periplasmic proteinase | <enzyme> Included in group of microbial serine proteinases, EC 3.4.21.14 Registry number: EC 3.4.21.- Synonym: E coli protease I, proteinase i (26 Jun 1999) |
| Ycp1 proteinase | <enzyme> The first cysteine proteinase isolated from yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae); homologous to mammalian bleomycin hydrolase Registry number: EC 3.4.22.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| yscJ proteinase | <enzyme> A 58kda protein that cleaves tyr-lys bond; inhibited by mercury and edta6 Registry number: EC 3.4.24.- Synonym: proteinase yscj (26 Jun 1999) |
| kinase-splitting membranal proteinase | <enzyme> Brush-border membrane proteinase; specifically clips the native form of the catalytic subunit of camp-dependent protein kinase Registry number: EC 3.4.99.- Synonym: ksm proteinase (26 Jun 1999) |
| lamin proteinase | <enzyme> Cleaves the nuclear lamins during apoptosis; related to interleukin 1beta-converting enzyme (ice); distinct from poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (parp) proteinase Registry number: EC 3.4.99.- Synonym: lamin protease (26 Jun 1999) |
| lens neutral proteinase | <enzyme> Degrades alpha 2-crystallin; requires ca and mg; cleaves phe-ser bond in bradykinin; similar enzyme found in human lung Registry number: EC 3.4.24.5 Synonym: neutral proteinase 24.5 (26 Jun 1999) |
| acetyl-CoA:alpha-glucosaminide acetyltransferase | <enzyme> An enzyme involved in the synthesis of certain carbohydrate moieties on proteins. A deficiency of this enzyme leads to mucopolysaccharidosis type III C. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adrenergic alpha-agonists | Drugs that selectively bind to and activate alpha adrenergic receptors. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adrenergic alpha-antagonists | Drugs that bind to but do not activate alpha-adrenergic receptors thereby blocking the actions of endogenous or exogenous adrenergic agonists. Adrenergic alpha-antagonists are used in the treatment of hypertension, vasospasm, peripheral vascular disease, shock, and pheochromocytoma. (12 Dec 1998) |
| alpha | First letter of the Greek alphabet, a. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alpha-1,3-mannosylglycoprotein beta-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase | <enzyme> Incorporates n-acetyglucosamine as the third branch of complex n-glycosyl-oligosaccharide of hen oviduct Registry number: EC 2.4.1.145 Synonym: glcnac-transferase iv, n-acetylglucosaminyltransferase iv, udp-glcnac-gngn(glcnac to man alpha1-3)beta 4-n-acetylglucosaminyltransferase iv (26 Jun 1999) |
| alpha-1,4-glucan lyase | <enzyme> Degrades alpha-1,4-glucan to produce 1,5-anhydrofructose; from seaweeds gracilariopsis lemaneiformis and gracilaria verrucosa; mw 111 kD; amino acid sequence has been determined Registry number: EC 4.2.2.- Synonym: alpha-1,4-glucan 4-lyase (26 Jun 1999) |