Proprotein convertase 2 (PC2) also known as prohormone convertase 2 or neuroendocrine convertase 2 (NEC2) is a serine protease and proprotein convertase...
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activity. Proprotein convertases remove those chains and activate the protein. The prototypical proprotein convertase is furin. Proprotein convertases have...
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Proprotein convertase 1, also known as prohormone convertase, prohormone convertase 3, or neuroendocrine convertase 1 and often abbreviated as PC1/3 is...
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PCSK9 (redirect from Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9)
Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) is an enzyme encoded by the PCSK9 gene in humans on chromosome 1. It is the 9th member of the proprotein...
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160-amino acid protein proglucagon. Proglucagon is then cleaved by proprotein convertase 2 to glucagon (amino acids 33-61) in pancreatic islet α cells. In...
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prodynorphin. When prodynorphin is cleaved during processing by proprotein convertase 2 (PC2), multiple active peptides are released: dynorphin A, dynorphin...
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Furin (redirect from Furin convertase)
that belongs to the subtilisin-like proprotein convertase family. The members of this family are proprotein convertases that process latent precursor proteins...
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vesicles. In the granule, proinsulin is cleaved by proprotein convertase 1/3 and proprotein convertase 2, removing the middle part of the protein, called...
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by the enzyme proprotein convertase 2 (PC2) while 16 are removed from the C-terminus of the proIAPP molecule by proprotein convertase 1/3 (PC1/3). At...
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placenta and womb, and from the ovaries. Proprotein convertase 1 converts prorenin into renin, but proprotein convertase 2 does not. There is no evidence that...
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preproinsulin signal peptide signal peptide peptidase proprotein convertase 1 (PC1) proprotein convertase 2 (PC2) "Entrez Gene: INS insulin". Bell GI, Pictet...
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Evolocumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody that inhibits proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9). PCSK9 is a protein that targets...
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a small interfering RNA (siRNA) that acts as an inhibitor of a proprotein convertase, specifically, inhibiting translation of the protein PCSK9. Inclisiran...
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Carboxypeptidase E (redirect from Enkephalin convertase)
cleave the peptide precursors, which are small proteins. First, proprotein convertases cut the precursor at specific sites to generate intermediates containing...
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Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 4 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PCSK4 gene. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000115257 –...
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inactive hormones. Once prohormones are needed to be expressed, prohormone convertase, a protein, cleaves the prohormones and separates them into one or more...
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Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 5 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PCSK5 gene, found in chromosome 9q21.3 Two alternatively spliced...
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Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 6 is an protease that in humans is encoded by the PCSK6 gene which is located in chromosome 15. Pcsk6 is a...
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List of EC numbers (EC 3) (redirect from EC 3.2)
3.4.21.92: endopeptidase Clp EC 3.4.21.93: proprotein convertase 1 EC 3.4.21.94: proprotein convertase 2 EC 3.4.21.95: snake venom factor V activator...
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"Mammalian subtilisin/kexin isozyme SKI-1: A widely expressed proprotein convertase with a unique cleavage specificity and cellular localization". Proceedings...
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Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 7 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PCSK7 gene. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the...
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640 – proprotein convertase 1 MeSH D08.811.277.656.300.760.646 – proprotein convertase 2 MeSH D08.811.277.656.300.760.648 – proprotein convertase 5 MeSH D08...
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anti-sense oligonucleopeptides (such as Pelacarsen and Olpasiran), and proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors. The American Academy...
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transcription factors. This gene encodes a member of the subtilisin-like proprotein convertase family, which includes proteases that process protein and peptide...
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of Sparassis crispa (Wulf.) and Their Inhibitory Activities on Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 mRNA Expression". J. Agric. Food Chem. 65...
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neuroendocrine tissues. It functions as a chaperone protein for the proprotein convertase PC2 by blocking the aggregation of this protein, and is required...
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added to other treatments for HoFH. Side effects that occurred in more than 2% of people treated with alirocumab in clinical trials and that occurred more...
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is cleaved by proteins called convertases in order to generate a mature Nodal. The subtilisin-like proprotein convertases (SPC) Furin (Spc1) and PACE4...
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Christian JL, Heasman J (February 2005). "XPACE4 is a localized pro-protein convertase required for mesoderm induction and the cleavage of specific TGFbeta proteins...
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Interleukin 1 beta (category Genes on human chromosome 2)
macrophages, monocytes, and a subset of dentritic cells known as slanDC, as a proprotein, which is proteolytically processed to its active form by caspase 1 (CASP1/ICE)...
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