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- Title
The Role of Proteases and Serpin Protease Inhibitors in β-Cell Biology and Diabetes.
- Authors
Kryvalap, Yury; Czyzyk, Jan
- Abstract
Regulation of the equilibrium between proteases and their inhibitors is fundamental to health maintenance. Consequently, developing a means of targeting protease activity to promote tissue regeneration and inhibit inflammation may offer a new strategy in therapy development for diabetes and other diseases. Specifically, recent efforts have focused on serine protease inhibitors, known as serpins, as potential therapeutic targets. The serpin protein family comprises a broad range of protease inhibitors, which are categorized into 16 clades that are all extracellular, with the exception of Clade B, which controls mostly intracellular proteases, including both serine- and papain-like cysteine proteases. This review discusses the most salient, and sometimes opposing, views that either inhibition or augmentation of protease activity can bring about positive outcomes in pancreatic islet biology and inflammation. These potential discrepancies can be reconciled at the molecular level as specific proteases and serpins regulate distinct signaling pathways, thereby playing equally distinct roles in health and disease development.
- Subjects
PROTEASE inhibitors; CYSTEINE proteinases; BIOLOGY; ISLANDS of Langerhans; PROTEOLYTIC enzymes; DIABETES; SERPINS; ELASTASES
- Publication
Biomolecules (2218-273X), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
2218-273X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biom12010067