PROTEINS

Contributor Information
- Name Timothy Cunningham
- Institute Drexel University
Tool Details
- Tool name: CHEC-9 immunomodulatory Peptide
- Alternate names: Human neuroprotective polypeptide Diffusible Survival Evasion Peptide (DSEP)
- Tool type: Proteins
- Sequence: CHEASAAQC
- Description: The CHEC-9 (peptide sequence CHEASAAQC) sequence is a fragment of a human diffusible survival evasion peptide (DSEP). CHEC-9 is an anti-inflammatory/neuroprotective peptide that uncompetitively binds and inhibit secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2). Allowing for the study of PLA2-directed inflammation of traumatic and autoimmune (Autoimmune Myeloencephalitis) neurodegenerative disorders. CHEC-9 also binds HSP70 and may influence HSP70-dependent dissolution of protein aggregates that accumulate in aging and disease models like Parkinsonâs and Alzheimerâs Disease.
- Research area: Immunology; Neurobiology
- For Research Use Only
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References
- • Cunningham et al. 2015. Rejuvenation Res. 18(2):136-44. PMID: 25485461.
- • Anti-inflammatory peptide regulates the supply of heat shock protein 70 monomers: implications for aging and age-related disease.
- • Secreted phospholipase A2 involvement in neurodegeneration: differential testing of prosurvival and anti-inflammatory effects of enzyme inhibition.
- • Chen et al. 2012. PLoS One. 7(6):e39257. PMID: 22720084.
- • Uncompetitive Phospholipase A2 Inhibition by CHEC Sequences Including Oral Treatment of Experimental Autoimmune Myeloencephalitis
- • Cunningham et al. 2006. J Neuroinflammation. 3:25. PMID: 16965626.
- • Inhibition of secreted phospholipase A2 by neuron survival and anti-inflammatory peptide CHEC-9.
- • Cunningham et al. 2004. J Neurotrauma. 21(11):1683-91. PMID: 15684658.
- • Systemic treatment of cerebral cortex lesions in rats with a new secreted phospholipase A2 inhibitor.