An amino-terminal fragment of urokinase isolated from a prostate cancer cell line (PC-3) is mitogenic for osteoblast-like cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 1058-1064

  Rabbani, Shafast A ^a   Desjardins, Johanne ^a   Bell, Alexander W ^b   Banville, Denis ^b   Mazar, Andrew ^c   Henkin, Jack ^c   Goltzman, David ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UROKINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BONE NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0025543131     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(05)80893-9     Document Type: Article

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3. On the conversion of high molecular weight urokinase to the low molecular weight form by plasmin