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  • noun Plural form of convertase.

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Examples

  • Identification of proprotein convertases as candidate receptor

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  • Day R (2005) Cutting back on pro-protein convertases: the latest approaches to pharmacological inhibition.

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  • Siegfried G, Prat A, Luis J, Chretien M, et al. (2001) Inhibition of proprotein convertases is associated with loss of growth and tumorigenicity of HT-29 human colon carcinoma cells: importance of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptor processing in IGF-1-mediated functions.

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  • Varshavsky A, Kessler O, Abramovitch S, Kigel B, Zaffryar S, et al. (2008) Semaphorin-3B is an angiogenesis inhibitor that is inactivated by furin-like pro-protein convertases.

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  • Scamuffa N, Siegfried G, Bontemps Y, Ma L, Basak A, et al. (2008) Selective inhibition of proprotein convertases represses the metastatic potential of human colorectal tumor cells.

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  • Siegfried G, Chretien M, Metrakos P, Seidah NG (2002) Proprotein convertases in tumor progression and malignancy: novel targets in cancer therapy.

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  • J, Lopez de Cicco R, Klein-Szanto AJ (2005) Proprotein convertases: "master switches" in the regulation of tumor growth and progression.

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  • CDKN2A and N-Ras genes, we found that inhibition of the proprotein convertases

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  • Bergeron F, Leduc R, Day R (2000) Subtilase-like pro-protein convertases: from molecular specificity to therapeutic applications.

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  • Proprotein convertases (PC) are a family of subtilisin-like serine proteases.

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