Salivary histatin 5 is a potent competitive inhibitor of the cysteine proteinase clostripain
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- 22 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley
- Vol. 489 (1) , 97-100
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02077-4
Abstract
Histatin 5 is a low molecular weight salivary protein which is known to exhibit inhibitory activity against several proteinases, including the cysteine proteinases gingipains. The purpose of this stu...Keywords
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