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Anti-inflammatory and Antidote Drug Discovery with Secreted Phospholipase A2

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Secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is an enzyme that hydrolyzes the phospholipids at a specific site and initiates the inflammatory/arachidonic acid (AA) pathway. Snake venom sPLA2s are neuro- and myo- toxins while different tissues of human body produce sPLA2s involved in inflammation, signalling and atherosclerosis. These wide ranges of pharmacological activities exerted by sPLA2s with a conserved structural domain thrust scientists to understand the molecular mechanism behind it, in the past two decades. This resulted in availability of well characterized biological data on function of sPLA2s of almost all types and continuous deposition of their structural data in the protein data bank. Additionally, the isoform specific inhibitors can also be retrieved from different chemical compound databases for futuristic and knowledge-based computational studies. Hence, inhibition or regulation of sPLA2s deserves a significant clinical and pharmacological importance, despite their anti-bacterial and anti-viral activities. In the present situation with increase in snake bite or envenomation cases worldwide, particularly in tropical countries, further studies on catalytic and inhibition mechanisms of sPLA2 isoforms at atomic details are necessary to confront the associated pathologies. This chapter is structured to provide detailed information of the current knowledge on the sPLA2 biology and future perspectives.

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Chandrasekaran, R., Bhattacharjee, A., Devadasan, V. (2019). Anti-inflammatory and Antidote Drug Discovery with Secreted Phospholipase A2 . In: Husain, Q., Ullah, M. (eds) Biocatalysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25023-2_10

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