Part:BBa_K4165076

SPINK1 (Serine Peptidase Inhibitor Kazal type 1).

This basic part encodes Human serine protease inhibitor known as SPINK1 which is able to inhibit trypsin-like proteases, like HtrA1 (BBa_K4165004).

Usage and Biology

This type of family encodes for a type of inhibitor that is able to inhibit trypsins. The inhibitor is secreted from pancreatic acinar cells into the pancreatic juice. The main function of the inhibitor in pancreatic juice is the prevention of activation of immature trypsin zymogens within the pancreatic duct. The inhibitor binds to trypsin proteases and since the catalytic core of HtrA1 (BBa_K4165004) is considered as a trypsin-like catalytic domain, so this inhibitor also is considered to inhibit the function of HtrA1.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

Modelling

                 Figure 1.: A graphical illustration showing the structure of SPINK1 (X-ray).

References

1 - Frochaux, V., Hildebrand, D., Talke, A., Linscheid, M. W., & Schlüter, H. (2014). Alpha-1-antitrypsin: a novel human high temperature requirement protease A1 (HTRA1) substrate in human placental tissue. PloS one, 9(10), e109483.

2 - Grau, S., Baldi, A., Bussani, R., Tian, X., Stefanescu, R., Przybylski, M., ... & Ehrmann, M. (2005). Implications of the serine protease HtrA1 in amyloid precursor protein processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(17), 6021-6026.

3 - Eigenbrot, C., Ultsch, M., Lipari, M. T., Moran, P., Lin, S. J., Ganesan, R., ... & Kirchhofer, D. (2012). Structural and functional analysis of HtrA1 and its subdomains. Structure, 20(6), 1040-1050.