Publication Abstract from PubMed
Staphostatins are the endogenous inhibitors of the major secreted cysteine proteases of Staphylococcus aureus, the staphopains. Here, we present the 1.4 A crystal structure of staphostatin B and show that the fold can be described as a fully closed, highly sheared eight-stranded beta-barrel. Thus, staphostatin B is related to beta-barrel domains that are involved in the inhibition or regulation of proteases of various catalytic types and to the superfamily of lipocalins/cytosolic fatty acid binding proteins. Unexpectedly for a cysteine protease inhibitor, staphostatin B is not significantly similar to cystatins.
Staphostatins resemble lipocalins, not cystatins in fold.,Rzychon M, Filipek R, Sabat A, Kosowska K, Dubin A, Potempa J, Bochtler M Protein Sci. 2003 Oct;12(10):2252-6. PMID:14500882[1]
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