Proteases as Targets for Therapy

Proteases control many physiological reactions and are involved in a variety of pathological processes for which effective medications are being sought. This volume combines information on viral, microbial and cellular proteolytic enzymes as potential targets for human therapeutics.

Section I. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Protease Inhibitors.- 1 The Road to Fortovase. A History of Saquinavir, the First Human Immunodeficiency Virus Protease Inhibitor.- 2 Clinical Experience with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Protease Inhibitors: Antiretroviral Results, Questions and Future Strategies.- 3 The Nature of Resistance to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Protease Inhibitors.- 4 The Next Generation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Protease Inhibitors: Targeting Viral Resistance.- Section II. Other Viral (Non-HIV) Protease Inhibitors.- 5 The Proteinases Encoded by Hepatitis C Virus as Therapeutic Targets.- 6 The Human Herpes-Virus Proteases.- 7 The 3C Proteinases of Picornaviruses and Other Positive-Sense, Single-Stranded RNA Viruses.- 8 Adenovirus Proteinase-Antiviral Target for Triple-Combination Therapy on a Single Enzyme: Potential Inhibitor-Binding Sites.- 9 Proteinases as Virulence Factors in Bacterial Diseases and as Potential Targets for Therapeutic Intervention with Proteinase Inhibitors.- 10 Parasite Proteases as Targets for Therapy.- Section III. (Non-Viral) Proteases Involved in Diseases.- 11 Host Proteinases as Targets for Therapeutic Intervention.- 12 The Role of Metalloprotease Inhibitors in Cancer and Chronic Inflammatory Diseases.- 13 The Tumor Necrosis Factor-? Converting Enzyme.- 14 Serine Elastases in Inflammatory and Vascular Diseases.- 15 Inhibitors of Thrombin and Factor Xa.- 16 Inhibitors of Papain-Like Cysteine Peptidases in Cancer.- 17 Caspases and Their Natural Inhibitors as Therapeutic Targets for Regulating Apoptosis.- 18 Proteasome and Apoptosis.- 19 Proteolytic Processing of the Amyloid Precursor Protein of Alzheimer''s Disease.- 20 Presenilins and ?-Amyloid Precursor Protein-Proteolytically Processed Proteins Involved in the Generation of Alzheimer''s Amyloid ? Peptide.