Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A proteolytic enzyme regulated by the concentration of calcium ions.
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- noun biochemistry Any of a family of
enzymes that regulatecalcium in the body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Talin binds vinculin and integrins. talin is a substrate for the Ca2+-activated protease calpain II.
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GSK3B also phosphoryklates tau but does not induce hyperphosphorylation in response to calpain activating stimuli.
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Inhibition of calpain prevents muscle weakness and disruption of sarcomere structure during hindlimb suspension.
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Inhibition of cdk5 or calpain activity reduces cell death in A beta-treated cortical neurons.
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Talin substrate for calpain - PMAP www. proteolysis.org Talin is calpain substrate.
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We further observed that both the caspase and calpain inhibitors reduced the activation of caspases with an equal efficiency.
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The role of two cysteine proteases; caspase and calpain has been highly implicated in programmed cell death in many cell systems
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Thus we sought to assess the role of cell permeable inhibitors of cysteine proteases; caspase (zVADfmk) and calpain (zLLYfmk) as supplements in the serum free culture of CD34
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Xu YA, Gada H, Guttmann RP, Siman R (2003) Cross-talk between calpain and caspase proteolytic systems during neuronal apoptosis.
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Inhibition of cdk5 or calpain activity reduces cell death in A beta-treated cortical neurons.
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