Review Article

Intracellular Cleavage of the Cx43 C-Terminal Domain by Matrix-Metalloproteases: A Novel Contributor to Inflammation?

Table 1

Results of cleavage site prediction based on SitePrediction  in silico analysis.

Matrix-metalloproteasePositionSegmentAverage scoreSpecificity

MMP-2357#QPLA −/− IVDQ476.396>99%
355ELQP −/− LAIV117.022>99%
277PTAP −/− LSPM155.854>99%
254TSGA −/− LSPA106.264>99%
256ALSP −/− AKDC26.467>95%
326AGST −/− ISNS25.335>95%
252ATSG −/− ALSP22.937>95%
280PLSP −/− MSPP19.688>95%
379RPDD −/− LEI 18.873>95%

MMP-7355ELQP −/− LAIV29.767>99%
287PGYK −/− LVTG29.767>99%
352AGHE −/− LQPL5.998>95%
255GALS −/− PAKD5.152>95%
277PTAP −/− LSPM4.057>95%
379RPDD −/− LEI3.397>95%
253TSGA −/− LSPS3.242>95%
285SPPG −/− YKLV2.469>95%
349KLAA −/− GHEL2.431>95%
238GVKD −/− RVKG2.119>95%

MMP-9285#SPPG −/− YKLV47.023>99%
324GQAG −/− STIS35.498>99%
255GALS −/− PAKD13.580>95%
357#QPLA −/− IVDQ11.443>95%
252ATSG −/− ALSP11.129>95%
235FFKG −/− VKDR4.991>95%

http://www.dmbr.ugent.be/prx/bioit2-public/SitePrediction/; #also identified by PROSPER.