| Specific Function
| Secreted alkaline protease that allows assimilation of proteinaceous substrates (By similarity). Acts as a significant virulence factor in invasive aspergillosis. Involved in immune evasion from the human and mice complement systems during infection. Efficiently cleaves important components of the complement cascade such as such as C3, C4, C5, and C1q, as well as IgG, which leads to down-regulation of complement activation at the hyphal surface (By similarity). |
| General References
| - Fedorova ND, Khaldi N, Joardar VS, Maiti R, Amedeo P, Anderson MJ, Crabtree J, Silva JC, Badger JH, Albarraq A, Angiuoli S, Bussey H, Bowyer P, Cotty PJ, Dyer PS, Egan A, Galens K, Fraser-Liggett CM, Haas BJ, Inman JM, Kent R, Lemieux S, Malavazi I, Orvis J, Roemer T, Ronning CM, Sundaram JP, Sutton G, Turner G, Venter JC, White OR, Whitty BR, Youngman P, Wolfe KH, Goldman GH, Wortman JR, Jiang B, Denning DW, Nierman WC: Genomic islands in the pathogenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. PLoS Genet. 2008 Apr 11;4(4):e1000046. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000046. [PubMed:18404212 ]
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