Statine

Statine

Statine

Chemical compound

This article is about the amino acid. For the group of cholesterol lowering drugs, see Statin.

Statine is a gamma amino acid that occurs twice in the sequence of pepstatin, a protease inhibitor that is active against pepsin and other acid proteases.[1] It is thought to be responsible for the inhibitory activity of pepstatin because it mimics the tetrahedral transition state of peptide catalysis.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Umezawa, H.; Aoyagi, T.; Morishima, H.; Matsuzaki, M.; Hamada, M.; Takeuchi, T. (1970). "Pepstatin, a new pepsin inhibitor produced by Actinomycetes". The Journal of Antibiotics. 23 (5): 259–262. doi:10.7164/antibiotics.23.259. PMID 4912600.
  2. [2]
    Marciniszyn Jr, J.; Hartsuck, J. A.; Tang, J. (1976). "Mode of inhibition of acid proteases by pepstatin". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 251 (22): 7088–7094. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(17)32945-9. PMID 993206.


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