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Biol. Chem., Vol. 383, pp. 1 4, January 2002 · Copyright © by Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York Guest Editorial It has been with great pleasure that the guest editors accepted the proposal of one of the executive editors of Biological Chemistry, Hans Fritz, to put together a highlight issue of the journal, devoted to the content of the First Chianti Meeting on Proteases, entitled "Non-proteolytic roles of proteinases: novel functions for old enzymes", which was held on April 27-May 1, 2001 in the Certosa di Pontignano, in the very heart of Tuscany, Italy. The first hints for non-enzymatic activities of proteases began in the '80s, when structural and sequence analyses revealed that a number of proteases (mainly those implicated in blood coagulation and fibrinolysis) (Patthy et al., 1984, 1985) had evolved by assembly from nonprotease modules. Although a non-protease modular structure has been identified in all main families of proteases, the bulk of evidence for non-protease roles has been obtained in the proteases of the fibrinolytic system (extensively reviewed by Mignatti and Rifkin, 2000), mainly due to the observation that the non-protease modules of these proteases are able to interact with cellsurface molecules
Biological Chemistry – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 23, 2002
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