Bacterial serine protease HtrA as a promising new target for antimicrobial therapy?

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• 作者：Silja Wessler ; Gisbert Schneider ; Steffen Backert
• 刊名：Cell Communication and Signaling
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：553KB
• 刊物主题：Cell Biology; Protein-Ligand Interactions; Receptors; Cytokines and Growth Factors;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1478-811X
• 卷排序：15

文摘

Recent studies have demonstrated that the bacterial chaperone and serine protease high temperature requirement A (HtrA) is closely associated with the establishment and progression of several infectious diseases. HtrA activity enhances bacterial survival under stress conditions, but also has direct effects on functions of the cell adhesion protein E-cadherin and extracellular matrix proteins, including fibronectin and proteoglycans. Although HtrA cannot be considered as a pathogenic factor per se, it exhibits favorable characteristics making HtrA a potentially attractive drug target to combat various bacterial infections.