Protease from Staphylococcus aureus strain V8 is composed of a single polypeptide chain. The Staphylococcus strain V8 protease specifically cleaves peptide bonds on the carboxyl (COOH) terminal side of aspartic and glutamic acid residues. Protease V8 is used for selective cleavage of proteins…

Tight-binding, reversible, highly selective inhibitor of acid proteases (aspartyl peptidases), like pepsin, gastricsin, cathepsin E and D, renin, chymosin, bacterial aspartic proteinases and HIV proteases. Does not inhibit thiol proteases, neutral proteases or serine proteases. Widely used as a…

Cell permeable, potent and selective class IIb HDAC6 inhibitor (IC50 =3nM). Displays high selectivity over all other HDACs (IC50=0.03-20µM). Induces cellular alpha-tubulin, but not histone H3 hyperacetylation in Neuro-2a cells. Promotes mitochondrial transport. Shows improved kinetics and…

Anticancer compound. Chemotherapeutic used in patients with cancer and advanced forms of Kaposi's sarcoma. Microtubule assembly stabilizer. Reversibly binds to polymerized tubulin. Anti-mitotic. Mitotic spindle assembly, chromosome segregation and cell division inhibitor. Induces cell cycle…

PMA activates Ca2+- ATPase and potentiates forskolin-induced cAMP formation. It has been shown to inhibit apoptosis induced by the Fas antigen, but PMA induces apoptosis in HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells.

Acetyl-CoA is produced via beta-oxidation of fatty acids, via the metabolism of carbohydrates - glucose 6-phosphate to pyruvate to acetyl-CoA and via the catabolism of amino acids. Acetyl-CoA has a number of metabolic opportunities. It is metabolized in the tricarboxylic acid cycle to produce…

Cell permeable mycotoxin. Actin polymerization inhibitor. Binds to the barbed end of actin, reversibly inhibiting the elongation and shortening of actin filaments. Induces nuclear extrusion. By disrupting actin polymerization, blocks diverse cellular functions, including cell division, migration,…

Cell permeable, potent and selective class IIb HDAC6 inhibitor (IC50 =5nM). Displays high selectivity over all other HDACs (IC50=0.2-11µM). Induces cellular alpha-tubulin, but not histone H3 hyperacetylation in Neuro-2a cells. Promotes mitochondrial transport. Shows improved kinetics and…

Potent platinum-based antineoplastic agent with wide spectrum anticancer activity. Anticancer compound. Forms inter- and intrastrand DNA adducts/crosslinks, consequently blocking DNA replication and transcription and inducing cell death. Shows antitumor activity in cisplatin resistant cell lines.…

Synonyms Ampakine CX-516 Ampalex CX-516

Potent competitive gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor antagonist and glycine receptor agonist. Weak nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist. Muscle relaxant. Anti-inflammatory. Has analgesic properties. Shows strong epileptogenic and convulsant activity. Anticancer compound through…

Competitive indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitor. Cell permeable, potent and selective necroptosis (a non-apoptotic form of programmed cell death) inhibitor. Showed neuroprotection in a murine model of ischemic brain injury in vivo. Selective and ATP-competitive receptor-interacting protein…

The novel Z-VAD(OMe)-FMK inhibitor synthesized using proprietary technology is cell permeable and irreversibly binds to activated Caspases to block apoptosis. Apoptosis is a physiological form of cell death, which plays an important role in embryogenesis, cellular homoestasis, tissue atrophy, and…

Cell permeable, potent and selective class IIb HDAC6 inhibitor (IC50 =9nM). Displays high selectivity over all other HDACs (IC50=0.1-12µM). Induces cellular alpha-tubulin, but not histone H3 hyperacetylation in Neuro-2a cells. Promotes mitochondrial transport. Shows improved kinetics and…

Deoxyribonuclease from beef pancreas, DNase I, was first crystallized by Kunitz. It is an endonuclease which splits phosphodiester linkages, preferentially adjacent to a pyrimidine nucleotide yielding 5'-phosphate terminated polynucleotides with a free hydroxyl group on position 3'. The…

Highly potent, selective and reversible cell permeable inhibitor of the proteasome. Inhibits the chymotrypsin-like and caspase-like peptidase activity of the proteasome. Calpain and cathepsin inhibitor. Autophagy activator. Anticancer compound. Inhibits proliferation and migration of several tumor…

An antineoplastic of Rhodomycin group; Antibiotic; Inhibitor of enzymes and metabolic pathways. A potent anticancer agent that has been shown to be a strong inhibitor of DNA and RNA synthesis. Daunorubicin hydrochloride is used in photostability , antileukemic, and drug metabolism studies. …

E-64 L-trans-epoxysuccinyl-leucylamide-(4-guanido)-butane or N-[N-(L-trans-carboxyoxiran-2-carbonyl)-L-leucyl]-agmatine Features CAS Number: 66701-25-5 Molecular Formula : …

Cell permeable, potent and selective class IIb HDAC6 inhibitor (IC50 =12nM). Displays high selectivity over HDAC1 (IC50=6.8µM). Neuroprotective. Effectively prevents neuronal cell death upon oxidative stress induction by HCA and selectively induces cellular alpha-tubulin hyperacetylation.…

Leupeptin is a modified tripeptide reversible protease inhibitor of trypsin-like proteases and some cysteine proteases including endoproteinase Lys-C, kallikrein, papain, thrombin, cathepsin B, cathepsins H and L, trypsin, calpain, trypsin8 and plasmin. Effective concentration is typically 10-100…

Anticancer and antimetastatic. alpha-Glucosidase inhibitor. Topoisomerase I Inhibitor. Apoptosis inducer. Anti-inflammatory. 15-Lipoxygenase (15-LOX) inhibitor. IL-6 production inhibitor. Fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibitor. Antioxidant. Free radical scavenger. Antiadipogenic. PPAR-gamma inhibitor.…

Potent reversible inhibitor of serine/cysteine proteases and some trypsin-like proteases. Inhibits papain, trypsin and trypsin-like serine proteases as well as cathepsin A, B and D. Similar activity spectrum comparable to leupeptin (AG-CP3-7000). Acts by forming a hemiacetal adduct between its…

Potent, competitive and reversible cysteine, serine and threonine protease inhibitor. Inhibits calpain, kallikrein, trypsin, plasmin, papain and cathepsin B. Does not inhibit pepsin, elastase, renin, cathepsins A and D, thrombin or alpha-chymotrypsin. Used to protect against hearing loss caused by…

Acetoacetyl coenzyme A (Acetoacetyl-CoA) may be used as a substrate for a number of enzymes including; acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase (EC 2.3.1) which produces acetyl-CoA in reverse condensation reaction and (3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (CoA) synthase (HMGCS)) which produces…

Pepstatin A is a reversible inhibitor of aspartic proteases, Inhibitor for pepsin, renin, cathepsin D, cathepsin G, and other acid proteases. It does not inhibit thiol proteases, neutral proteases or serine proteases. Pepstatin forms a 1:1 complex with acid proteases (carboxyl proteases). …

Proteinase K is a highly active stable endopeptidase with a broad spectrum of action was isolated by E. Merk's Darmstadt Biochemical Research Department in 1970 from a culture filtrate of the fungus, Tritirachium album Limber. This fungus is able to grow on Keratin (e.g., wool, horn particles)…

FITC-Val-Ala-Asp(OMe)-FMK is an inhibitor for General Caspases.

N-[(S)-1-carboxy-isopentyl)-carbamoyl-alpha-(2-iminohexahydro-4(S)-pyrimidyl]-L-glycyl-L-phenylalaninal Specificity: Inhibits serine proteases having a chymotrypsin-like specificity, including α, β γ, and δ chymotrypsin, and most cysteine proteases including cathepsins…

[(S)-1-Carboxy-2-Phenyl]-carbamoyl-Arg-Val-arginal Specificity: Inhibits Ca 2+ -dependent endopeptidases, including papain, trypsin-like serine proteases, some cysteine proteases and to a lesser extent plasmin. Higher specificity for trypsin and papain compared to leupeptin. Solubility: …

Cell permeable fungal toxin that disrupts contractile microfilaments by inhibiting actin polymerization. This, in turn, induces DNA fragmentation, inhibits cell division, and disrupts many cell processes. Inhibits glucose transport. One of a group of fungal metabolites that interfere with a wide…

The FMK peptides are potent, cell permeable, irreversible inhibitors. It is useful for in vitro and in vivo applications. BOC-ASP(OMe)-FMK is an inhibitor for general Caspases. The novel Boc-D(OMe)-FMK inhibitor synthesized using proprietary technology is cell permeable and irreversibly binds…