Biology:SPINT1

Generic protein structure example

Kunitz-type protease inhibitor 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SPINT1 gene.

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the Kunitz family of serine protease inhibitors. The protein is a potent inhibitor specific for HGF activator and is thought to be involved in the regulation of the proteolytic activation of HGF in injured tissues. Alternative splicing results in multiple variants encoding different isoforms.

Further reading

• "The protease inhibitor PI*S allele and COPD: a meta-analysis.". Eur. Respir. J. 26 (1): 67–76. 2005. doi:10.1183/09031936.05.00135704. PMID 15994391. 
• "Hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor, a novel Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor.". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (10): 6370–6. 1997. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.10.6370. PMID 9045658. 
• "White matter astrocytes produce hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor in human brain tissues.". Exp. Neurol. 153 (1): 60–4. 1998. doi:10.1006/exnr.1998.6874. PMID 9743567. 
• "Distribution of hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor type 1 (HAI-1) in human tissues. Cellular surface localization of HAI-1 in simple columnar epithelium and its modulated expression in injured and regenerative tissues.". J. Histochem. Cytochem. 47 (5): 673–82. 1999. doi:10.1177/002215549904700509. PMID 10219059. 
• "Purification and characterization of a complex containing matriptase and a Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor from human milk.". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (26): 18237–42. 1999. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.26.18237. PMID 10373425. 
• "Multiple sites of proteolytic cleavage to release soluble forms of hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor type 1 from a transmembrane form.". J. Biochem. 126 (5): 821–8. 2000. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022522. PMID 10544273. 
• "Genomic structure and chromosomal localization of the human hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor type 1 and 2 genes.". Eur. J. Biochem. 267 (11): 3351–9. 2000. doi:10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01368.x. PMID 10824123. 
• "Hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor type 1 is a specific cell surface binding protein of hepatocyte growth factor activator (HGFA) and regulates HGFA activity in the pericellular microenvironment.". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (51): 40453–62. 2001. doi:10.1074/jbc.M006412200. PMID 11013244. 
• "Localization of hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor type 1 in Langhans' cells of human placenta.". Histochem. Cell Biol. 114 (6): 469–75. 2001. doi:10.1007/s004180000228. PMID 11201608. 
• "Matriptase and HAI-1 are expressed by normal and malignant epithelial cells in vitro and in vivo.". Am. J. Pathol. 158 (4): 1301–11. 2001. doi:10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64081-3. PMID 11290548. 
• "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. 2003. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932. Bibcode: 2002PNAS...9916899M. 
• "Tissue expression, protease specificity, and Kunitz domain functions of hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor-1B (HAI-1B), a new splice variant of HAI-1.". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (38): 36341–9. 2003. doi:10.1074/jbc.M304643200. PMID 12815039. 
• "The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment.". Genome Res. 13 (10): 2265–70. 2003. doi:10.1101/gr.1293003. PMID 12975309. 
• "Functional proteomics mapping of a human signaling pathway.". Genome Res. 14 (7): 1324–32. 2004. doi:10.1101/gr.2334104. PMID 15231748. 
• "Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites.". Protein Sci. 13 (10): 2819–24. 2005. doi:10.1110/ps.04682504. PMID 15340161. 
• "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. 2004. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334. 
• "Conformational lability in serine protease active sites: structures of hepatocyte growth factor activator (HGFA) alone and with the inhibitory domain from HGFA inhibitor-1B.". J. Mol. Biol. 346 (5): 1335–49. 2005. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.12.048. PMID 15713485. 
• "Identification of hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor-1B as a potential physiological inhibitor of prostasin.". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (41): 34513–20. 2005. doi:10.1074/jbc.M502119200. PMID 16103126. 
• "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network.". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. 2005. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514. Bibcode: 2005Natur.437.1173R.