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Abstract
The calcium-dependent fusion of cultured rat myoblasts to multinucleate myotubes appears to require the activity of a neutral metalloendoprotease at the time of fusion. Metalloendoprotease inhibitors and synthetic dipeptide substrates prevent myoblast fusion when added to fusion-competent myoblasts with the addition of calcium. Metalloendoprotease activity has been identified and partially characterized in myoblast membranes with a fluorogenic protease substrate, and is inhibited by the same compounds that prevent fusion.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6337722 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(83)90516-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582