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Aegerolysins: structure, function, and putative biological role.


ABSTRACT: Aegerolysins, discovered in fungi, bacteria and plants, are highly similar proteins with interesting biological properties. Certain aegerolysins possess antitumoral, antiproliferative, and antibacterial activities. Further possible medicinal applications include their use in the prevention of atherosclerosis, or as vaccines. Additional biotechnological value of fungal aegerolysins lies in their involvement in development, which could improve cultivation of commercially important edible mushrooms. Besides, new insights on microheterogeneity of raft-like membrane domains could be gained by using aegerolysins as specific markers in cell and molecular biology. Although the exact function of aegerolysins in their producing organisms remains to be explained, they are biochemically well characterized all-beta structured proteins sharing the following common features: low isoelectric points, similar molecular weights (15-17 kDa), and stability in a wide pH range.

SUBMITTER: Berne S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2762582 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Aegerolysins: structure, function, and putative biological role.

Berne Sabina S   Lah Ljerka L   Sepcić Kristina K  

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20090401 4


Aegerolysins, discovered in fungi, bacteria and plants, are highly similar proteins with interesting biological properties. Certain aegerolysins possess antitumoral, antiproliferative, and antibacterial activities. Further possible medicinal applications include their use in the prevention of atherosclerosis, or as vaccines. Additional biotechnological value of fungal aegerolysins lies in their involvement in development, which could improve cultivation of commercially important edible mushrooms  ...[more]

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