| Literature DB >> 9009225 |
C A Lunn1, X Fan, B Dalie, K Miller, P J Zavodny, S K Narula, D Lundell.
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We have purified a protease with characteristics of TNFalpha convertase from bovine spleen membranes. Peptide sequencing of the purified protein identified it as ADAM 10 (Genbank accession no. Z21961). This metalloprotease cleaves a recombinant proTNFalpha substrate to mature TNFalpha, and can cleave a synthetic peptide substrate to yield the mature TNFalpha amino terminus in vitro. The enzyme is sensitive to a hydroxamate inhibitor of MMPs, but insensitive to phosphoramidon. In addition, cloned ADAM 10 mediates proTNFalpha processing in a processing-incompetent cell line.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9009225 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(96)01410-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124