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ISK 2007 — October 16 to 18, 2007

2nd International Symposium on
Kallikreins and Kallikrein-Related Peptidases

Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre, Santorini Island, Greece

Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION
8:00 - 10:00 Registration Conference Center
10:00 - 10:30 Welcome Ceremony: M. Talieri, E. P. Diamandis
10:30 - 11:00

Session 1. KLK Structure/Function and Activation

Chairs –Viktor Magdolen, Constantine Sekeris

Peter Goettig (Germany), “Structural determinants of the zinc inhibition in human kallikrein-related peptidases”

11:00 - 11:30 Michael Blaber (USA), “Activation profiles and regulatory cascades of the human kallikrein-related peptidases”
11:30 - 11:45 Nathalie Beaufort (Germany), “In search of human kallikrein-related peptidase activators”
11:45 - 12:00 C Jolivet-Reynaud (France), “Crystal structure of a ternary complex between human prostate-specific antigen, its substrate acyl-intermediate and an activating antibody”
12:00 - 2:00 Poster Viewing
2:00 - 2:30

Session 2. Functional Roles of the newer KLK Peptidases

Chairs – Maria Brattsand, Ninetta Petraki

Torbjorn Egelrud (Sweden), “Functional roles of kallikrein-related proteases in skin physiology and disease”

2:30 - 3:00 Alain Hovnanian ( France) “Unbalanced epidermal kallikrein activity underlies sever skin barrier defects in Netherton syndrome”
3:00 - 3:15 Nathalie Heuzei-Vourc’h (France), “A novel role of kallikrein related peptidase-6 in lung cancer development”
3:15 - 3:30 M.G Naffah-Mazzacoratti (Brasil), “Expression of tissue kallikreins KLK1 and KLK11 in the rat hippocampus is modified after pilocarpine-induced epileptogenesis”
3:30 - 4:00 James Simmer (USA), “KLK4 function during dental enamel formation and its role in amelogenesis imperfecta”
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
4:30 - 5:30

Frey-Werle Commemorative Gold Medal from the Frey-Werle Foundation:

Chair – Marianne Jochum (Germany)
Introduction - Hans Fritz, John Hooper

Keynote Address: Dr. Judith A.Clements (Australia) – “The tissue kallikrein and kallikrein-related protease family – from mice to men – what have we learnt in the last two decades?”

6:00 - 7:00 Free-visit at the Prehistory Museum in Fira, including a lecture on the archaeology of Santorini Prehistory Museum in Fira
7:00-9.30 Welcome Cocktail Reception and dinner Restaurant Zafora in Fira

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION
8:00 - 8:30

Session 3. Classical Sites of KLK action – Heart, Kidney and Prostate

Chairs – Bernard Schoelkens, George Yousef

Francois Alhenc-Gelas (France), “Kallikrein and ACE in cardiovascular and renal regulation and disease”

Conference Center
8:30 - 9:00 Carsten Tschope (Germany) - “New perspectives on the tissue kallikrein-kinin system in cardiac failure”
9:00 - 9:15 Fabien Lecaille (France), “Modulation of hypotensive effects of kinins by cathepsin K
9:15 – 9:30 Simon Williams (USA), “Development and characterization of prostate-targeted PSA and HK2 transgenic animals”
9:30 – 9:45 Kailash Chadha (USA), “Physiological role of prostate-specific antigen (PSA): Modulation of angiogenic growth factors expression”
9:45– 10:00 Tove Irene Klokk (Norway), “Kallikrein 4 is a proliferative factor that is overexpressed in prostate cancer”

10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

Session 4. Novel approaches to protease/substrate identification

Chairs – David Deperthes, Marianne Jochum

Matthew Bogyo (USA) –“Application of small molecule active site probes for functional proteomic analysis of proteases”

11:00 – 11:15 Navneet Sharma (Canada), “Substrate specificity determination of human kallikrein 6 (KLK6) by phage display of small peptides”
11:15 – 11:30 JLV Shaw (Canada), “A potential role for human tissue kallikreins in cervico-vaginal physiology”
11:30 – 12:00 Chris Overall (Canada) “Proteolytic modification of the proteome in vivo: degradomics cuts to the answer”
12:00 – 2:00 Poster Viewing
2:00 – 2:30

Session 5. Cell Signalling and Protease Function

Chairs – Bruce Zuraw, Andreas Scorilas

Morley Hollenberg (Canada) - Kallikreins and proteinase-mediated signaling: proteinase-activated receptors (pars) and the pathophysiology of cancer and inflammatory diseases.

2:30 – 3:00 John Hooper (Australia), “A kallikrein PARsing through: KLK4 initiated transmembrane signalling”
3:00 – 3:15 Guacyara Motta (Brasil), “High molecular weight kininogen assembly on cell surface results in cellular uptake”
3:15 – 3:30 Natalia Ignatenko (USA), “Dual role of mutant K-ras in kallikrein 6 expression and secretion in colon cancer”
3:30 – 4:00 Bonnie Sloane (USA), “Proteases in breast cancer: Identification and functional imaging”

4:00 – 4:30

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

4.30 - 5:30

Business Meeting

6:30 – Midnight Gala Dinner

Thursday, October 18, 2007

TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION
8:00 - 8:30

Session 6. Therapeutic Targets and Inhibitor Design.

Chairs - Matthew Bogyo, Michael Evans

David Deperthes (Switzerland) “Human kallikrein 2: A protease involved in prostate cancer biology opening new a new avenue for the treatment of prostate cancer”.

Conference Center
8:30 - 9:00 Hannu Koistinen (Finland), “Targeting of prostate cancer with peptides to prostatic proteases”
9:00 – 9:15 DJ Sexton (USA), “The mechanism of antibody inhibitors of tissue kallikrein 1 (KLK1)
9:15 – 9:30 Maria Luiza Vilela Oliva (Brasil), “CA2+ release and contractile response of intestinal smooth muscle induced by BbKI, a kallikrein inhibitor from bauhinia bauhinioides

9:30 – 9.45

Jon Harris (Australia), “Substrate-guided design of a potent and specific kallikrein protease inhibitor”

9.45-10.00

Ioannis Prassas (Canada), “A high-throughput cell-based assay for inhibitors of kallikrein expression”

10.00-10.15

Wolf-George Forssmann (Germany), “The 15-domain serine proteinase inhibitor LEKTI: From peptide discovery to gene analysis and to clinical concepts for a skin disease drug”

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
10:45 – 11:15

Session 7. The KLK Locus - A Rich Source of Cancer Biomarkers

Chairs – Litsa Talieri, Yves Courty

Jeremy Squire (Canada) – Genomic re-arrangements of the kallikrein (KLK) gene cluster region in epithelial cancers: impact on KLK expression

11:15 – 11:30 E.S Lianidou (Greece) “Association of KLK10 exon 3 methylation status and clinical outcome in breast cancer”
11:30 – 12:00 Manfred Schmitt (Germany) – “Kallikrein-related peptidases, urokinase-type plasminogen activator UPA, and UPA inhibitor PAI-1: clinical relevance in advanced human ovarian cancer”.
12:00 – 12:30 Eleftherios Diamandis (Canada) “Human tissue kallikreins as cancer biomarkers: Update 2007”
12:30 – 1:00 Closing Ceremonies – Travel Awards – Litsa Talieri


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