Proprotein convertase 5/6 is critical for embryo implantation in women: Regulating receptivity by cleaving EBP50, modulating ezrin binding, and membrane-cytoskeletal interactions

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5041-5052

  Heng, Sophea ^a   Cervero, Ana ^b   Simon, Carlos ^b   Stephens, Andrew N ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a   Paule, Sarah ^a   Rainczuk, Adam ^a   Singh, Harmeet ^a   Quinonero, Alicia ^b   Tapia, Alejandro ^c   Velasquez, Luis ^c   Salamonsen, Lois ^a   Rombauts, Luk J F ^a   Nie, Guiying ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EZRIN; EZRIN RADIXIN MOESIN BINDING PHOSPHOPROTEIN 50; F ACTIN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN 4; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR COMPONENT 1; MOESIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 5; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 6; RADIXIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BLASTOCYST; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 5; PROTEIN BINDING; SODIUM-HYDROGEN ANTIPORTER;

EID: 82355165066     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1273     Document Type: Article

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