Proteolytic Signaling in Health and Disease

Dr. André Zelanis is Assistant professor of Proteomics and Systems Biology, and Head of the Functional Proteomics Laboratory at the Department of Science and Technology, Federal University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil. His research focuses in proteomics and mass spectrometry-based approaches to uncover protease function in biological signaling pathways. Currently his lab is using proteomics to explore the repertoire of substrates (degradome) of proteases secreted by melanoma cells in culture and evaluating proteolytic processing events in the plasma of patients with metastatic melanoma. He has published widely in such peer reviewed journals as the Journal of Proteome Research and Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology.

1. Proteolytic signalling: an introduction

André Zelanis, Uilla Barcick and Maurício F. Camacho

2. Ubiquitin-ligases: proteolytic signaling, protein turnover, and disease

Felipe Roberti Teixeira, Patricia Passos, Camila Correia, Caio Almeida, Valentine Spagnol and Isabela Fernanda Morales Martins

3. Lysosomal proteases and their role in signaling pathways

Rebecca A.B. Burton, Samuel Bose and Thamali Ayagama

4. Antigen processing and presentation through MHC molecules

Niels Olsen Saraiva Câmara, Tamisa Honda and Barbara Padovani

5. Proteolytic processing in autophagy

João Agostinho Machado-Neto and Andrei Leitão

6. Proteolysis in inflammatory diseases

Antoine Dufour and Luiz de Almeida

7. Proteolytic processing of laminin and the role of cryptides in tumoral biology

Vanessa Morais Freitas, Ruy Gastaldoni Jaeger and Adriane Sousa de Siqueira

8. Proteolytic signaling in wound healing

Ulrich auf dem Keller, Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos and Louise Bundgaard

9. Proteinases disbalance in oral cancer and other diseases

Adriana Franco Paes Leme

10. ‘Omics’ approaches for investigating protease degradomes in complex biological matrices

Pitter F. Huesgen and Maithreyan Kuppusamy

11. Protease web

Nikolaus Fortelny and Wolfgang Esser-Skala

12. The puzzle of proteolytic effects in hemorrhage induced by Viperidae snake venom metalloproteinases

Milene Menezes, Dilza Trevisan-Silva, Daniela Cajado De Oliveira Souza Carvalho and Jessica de Alcantara Ferreira