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Activation of the ubiquitin-ATP-dependent proteolytic system in skeletal muscle during fasting and denervation atrophy by Medina, R, Wing, S S, Haas, A, Goldberg, A L

“…The rapid atrophy of skeletal muscles upon fasting or denervation is due largely to an increased rate of protein breakdown. Blocking the lysosomal or the…”
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Study on the mechanism of carbon monoxide induced endothelium-independent relaxation in porcine coronary artery and vein by Gräser, T, Vedernikov, Y P, Li, D S

“…In superfusion experiments on isolated porcine coronary arterial and venous ring preparations precontracted by prostaglandin F2 alpha repeated bolus…”
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Membrane-bound peptidases of lymphocytes: functional implications by Ansorge, S, Schön, E, Kunz, D

“…The paper is aimed towards the role of the membrane ecto-enzymes aminopeptidase N (CD13, AP-N) and dipeptidyl peptidase IV (CD26, DP IV) in the immune system…”
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Similar endothelium-independent arterial relaxation by carbon monoxide and nitric oxide by Vedernikov, Y P, Gräser, T, Vanin, A F

“…In organ bath and bioassay experiments the relaxing effect of carbon monoxide on femoral, carotid and coronary artery preparations of the dog was shown to be…”
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Biological and clinical relevance of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) in breast cancer by Schmitt, M, Goretzki, L, Jänicke, F, Calvete, J, Eulitz, M, Kobayashi, H, Chucholowski, N, Graeff, H

“…Tumor cell invasion and metastasis is a multifactorial process, which at each step may require the action of proteolytic enzymes such as collagenases,…”
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The cystatins: a diverse superfamily of cysteine peptidase inhibitors by Barrett, A J

“…The cystatins comprise a homologous group of protein inhibitors of peptidases, of which the first to be studied in detail was chicken cystatin from egg-white…”
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Effects of the serum gamma globulin fraction of patients with allergic asthma and dilated cardiomyopathy on chronotropic beta adrenoceptor function in cultured neonatal rat heart myocytes by Wallukat, G, Wollenberger, A

“…Spontaneously beating cardiomyocytes of newborn rats were exposed in culture to the gamma globulin fraction from the blood serum of patients with allergic…”
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Modification of low density lipoproteins by sodium hypochlorite by Arnhold, J, Wiegel, D, Richter, O, Hammerschmidt, S, Arnold, K, Krumbiegel, M

“…Human low density lipoproteins (LDL) were incubated with increasing amounts of sodium hypochlorite. A decrease of the number of free amino groups on the LDL…”
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Tight-binding inhibition of cathepsin S by cystatins by Brömme, D, Rinne, R, Kirschke, H

“…Human cystatins A, B and C were purified, and their inhibition efficiency was tested with the cysteine proteinase cathepsin S. Cathepsin S was strongly…”
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On the action of hypochlorite on human serum albumin by Arnhold, J, Hammerschmidt, S, Wagner, M, Mueller, S, Arnold, K, Grimm, E

“…The luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence of zymosan-stimulated polymorphonuclear leukocytes is continuously diminished in the presence of increasing amounts of…”
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Stepwise activation mechanisms of the precursors of matrix metalloproteinases 1 (tissue collagenase) and 3 (stromelysin) by Nagase, H, Suzuki, K, Enghild, J J, Salvesen, G

“…Two zymogens of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), proMMP-1 (tissue procollagenase) and proMMP-3 (prostromelysin) were isolated from the culture medium of human…”
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Oryzacystatins as the first well-defined cystatins of plant origin and their target proteinases in rice seeds by Abe, K, Kondo, H, Watanabe, H, Emori, Y, Arai, S

“…Two cystatins occur in mature seeds of the rice, Oryza sativa L. japonica, which are named oryzacystatin I (OC-I) and oryzacystatin II (OC-II). These are…”
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Processing of mitochondrial precursor proteins by Arretz, M, Schneider, H, Wienhues, U, Neupert, W

“…The mitochondrial processing enzyme consists of two components, the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) and processing enhancing protein (PEP). MPP and…”
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Molecular mechanism of inhibition of cysteine proteinases by their protein inhibitors: kinetic studies with natural and recombinant variants of cystatins and stefins by Machleidt, W, Thiele, U, Assfalg-Machleidt, I, Förger, D, Auerswald, E A

“…Natural and recombinant variants of the cysteine proteinase inhibitors chicken cystatin and human stefin B were characterized by determination of their…”
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Proteolysis of protein kinase C by calpain: effect of acidic phospholipids by Saido, T C, Mizuno, K, Suzuki, K

“…The effect of acidic phospholipids on proteolysis of protein kinase C (PKC) by mu-calpain was examined at Ca++ concentrations ranging from 10(-7) to 10(-4) M…”
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Synthetic and endogenous inhibitors of snake venom metalloproteinases by Robeva, A, Politi, V, Shannon, J D, Bjarnason, J B, Fox, J W

“…The venoms of most Crotalidae snakes contain metalloproteinases which are the agents responsible for the production of venom-induced hemorrhage via proteolytic…”
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Effect of stobadine on brain lipid peroxidation induced by incomplete ischemia and subsequent reperfusion by Horáková, L, Uraz, V, Ondrejicková, O, Lukovic, L, Juránek, I

“…The ability of stobadine (ST) to prevent lipid peroxidation was tested in incomplete rat cerebral ischemia induced by 4 hour ligation of the common carotid…”
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The expression of cathepsin B and other lysosomal proteinases in normal tissues and in tumors by Qian, F, Chan, S J, Gong, Q M, Bajkowski, A S, Steiner, D F, Frankfater, A

“…The mRNA for the lysosomal proteinases cathepsins B, D, H, L, and S are broadly distributed in normal rodent tissues. Although total cathepsin mRNA levels…”
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Proteolytic digestion of non-collagenous basement membrane proteins by the hemorrhagic metalloproteinase Ht-e from Crotalus atrox venom by Baramova, E N, Shannon, J D, Fox, J W, Bjarnason, J B

“…Hemorrhagic toxin e (Ht-e), a metalloproteinase isolated from the venom of the Western Diamondback rattlesnake Crotalus atrox, digests laminin and nidogen,…”
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Electrostatic interactions between cytochrome P-450 LM2 and NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase by Bernhardt, R, Kraft, R, Otto, A, Ruckpaul, K

“…At pH 8.2 and a 100-fold molar excess of the amino group specific label 2-methoxy-5-nitrotropone (MNT) over protein 2 mol MNT/mol P-450 LM2 were bound, which…”
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