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SUBMITTER: Pham B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731459 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pham Bach B Eron Scott J SJ Hill Maureen E ME Li Xin X Fahie Monifa A MA Hardy Jeanne A JA Chen Min M
Biophysical journal 20190802 5
Caspases are an important protease family that coordinate inflammation and programmed cell death. Two closely related caspases, caspase-3 and caspase-7, exhibit largely overlapping substrate specificities. Assessing their proteolytic activities individually has therefore proven extremely challenging. Here, we constructed an outer membrane protein G (OmpG) nanopore with a caspase substrate sequence DEVDG grafted into one of the OmpG loops. Cleavage of the substrate sequence in the nanopore by cas ...[more]