References to papers related to proteinases that contain clip domains

Chasan, R. and Anderson, K.V. (1989) The role of easter, an apparent serine proteinase, in organizing the dorsal-ventral pattern of the Drosophila embryo. Cell 56, 391-400.

Chasan, R., Jin, Y., and Anderson, K.V. (1992) Activation of the easter zymogen is regulated by five other genes to define

dorsal-ventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo. Development 115, 607-16

DeLotto R. and Spierer P. (1986) A gene required for the specification of dorsal-ventral pattern in Drosophila appears to encode a serine protease. Nature 323, 688-692.

DeLotto Y. and DeLotto R. (1998) Proteolytic processing of the Drosophila spätzle protein by easter generates a dimeric NGF-like molecule with ventralising activity. Mech. Dev. 72, 141-148.

Gaines, P.J., Sampson, C.M., Rushlow, K.E., and Stiegler, G.L. (1999) Cloning of a family of serine protease genes from the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis. Insect Mol. Biol. 8, 11-22.

Gorman, M.J., Andreeva, O.V., and Paskewitz, S.M. (1999) Evidence for a role of clip domain serine proteases in the response of mosquitoes to malaria parasites. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. in press.

Iwanaga, S., Kawabata, S., and Muta, T. (1998) New types of clotting factors and defense molecules in horseshoe crab hemolymph: their structures and functions. J. Biochem., 123, 1-15.

Jiang, H., Wang, Y., and Kanost, M.R. (1998) Pro-phenol oxidase activating proteinase from an insect, Manduca sexta: a bacteria-inducible protein similar to Drosophila easter. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 12220-12225.

Jiang, H., Wang, Y., and Kanost, M.R. (1999) Four serine proteinases expressed in Manduca sexta haemocytes. Insect Mol. Biol. 8, 39-53.

Lee, S.Y., Cho, M.Y., Hyun, H.H., Lee, K.M., Homma, K., Natori, S., Kawabata, S., Iwanaga, S., and Lee, B.L. (1988) Molecular cloning of cDNA for pro-phenol-oxidase activating factor I, a serine proteinase is induced by lipopolysaccharide or 1,3--glucan in a coleopteran insect, Holotrichia diomphalia larvae. Eur. J. Biochem. 257, 615-621.

Misra, S., Hecht, P., Maeda, R. and Anderson, K.V. (1998) Positive and negative regulation of the serine protease family that controls dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo. Dev. 125, 1261-1267.

Morisato, D. and Anderson, K.V. (1995) Signal pathways that establish the dorsal-ventral pattern of the Drosophila embryo. Ann. Rev. Genetics 29, 371-399.

Muta, T., Hashimoto, R., Miyata, T., Nishimura, H., Toh, Y., and Iwanaga, S. (1990) Proclotting enzyme from horseshoe crab hemocytes: cDNA cloning, disulfide locations, and subcellular localization. J. Biol. Chem. 265, 22426-22433.

Muta, T., Oda, T., and Iwanaga, S. (1993) Horseshoe crab coagulation factor B: a unique serine proteinase zymogen activated by cleavage of an Ile-Ile bond. J. Biol. Chem. 268, 21384-21388.

Paskewitz, S.M., Reese-Stardy, S.R., and Gorman, M.J. (1999) An easter-like serine proteinase from Anopheles gambiae exhibits changes in transcript abundance following immune challenge. Insect Mol. Biol. in press.

Satoh, D., Horii, A., Ochiai, M., and Ashida, M. (1999) Prophenoloxidase-activating enzyme of the silkworm, Bombyx mori: purification, characterization and cDNA cloning. J. Biol. Chem. 274, 7441-7453.

Smith C., Giordano, H., DeLotto, R. (1994) Mutational analysis of the Drosophila snake protease: an essential role for domains within the proenzyme polypeptide chain. Genetics 136, 1355-65.

Smith, C.L. and DeLotto, R. (1992) A common domain within the proenzyme region of the Drosophila snake and easter proteins and Tachypleus proclotting enzyme defines a new subfamily of serine proteinases. Protein Sci. 1, 1225-1226.

Smith, C.L., Giordano, H., Schwartz, M., and DeLotto, R. (1995) Spatial regulation of Drosophila snake protease activity in the generation of dorsal-ventral polarity. Dev. 121, 4127-4135.