Favourable side-chain orientation of cleavage site dibasic residues of prohormone in proteolytic processing by prohormone convertase 1/3

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1626-1633

  Brakch, Noureddine ^a,b   Rholam, Mohamed ^b   Simonetti, Mario ^c   Cohen, Paul ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Div of Hypertension/Vasc Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Convertase; Hormone precursors; P'1 subsite; Pro ocytocin neurophysin; turn

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FURIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR; MAGNOLYSIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; NEUROPHYSIN; OXYTOCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

EID: 0034020087     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01154.x     Document Type: Article

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