Naoki Teno

Species Differences Between Human and Rat in the Substrate Specificity of Cathepsin K (2008)

Tada, Sachiyo, Tsutsumi, Kae, Ishihara, Hideki, Suzuki, Kenji, Gohda, Keigo, Teno, Naoki

Cathepsin K is known to play an important role in bone resorption, and it has the P2 specificity for proline. Rat cathepsin K has 88% identity with the human enzyme. However, it has been reported...

Roles of Lysine1 and Lysine7 Residues of Bovine Pancreatic Ribonuclease in the Enzymatic Activity (1986)

IRIE, Masachika, OHGI, Kazuko, YOSHINAGA, Makiko, YANAGIDA, Tamami, OKADA, Yoshio, TENO, Naoki

1) In order to investigate the roles of Lys1 and Lys7 of RNase A in the enzymatic activity, four S-peptide derivatives were prepared and their abilities to activate S-protein were measured. They are...