Diverse Substrate Recognition Mechanisms for Rhomboids: Thrombomodulin Is Cleaved by Mammalian Rhomboids

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 236-241

  Lohi, Olli ^a,b   Urban, Sinisa ^a,c   Freeman, Matthew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Neurologic Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1242288387     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(04)00008-9     Document Type: Article

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