HUMAN PROGELATINASE-A CAN BE ACTIVATED BY MATRILYSIN
HUMAN PROGELATINASE-A CAN BE ACTIVATED BY MATRILYSIN
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(94)00412-9
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发表时间:
1994-05-23
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
DOCHERTY, A
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作者:
CRABBE, T;SMITH, B;DOCHERTY, A
The activation of human progelatinase A by other matrix metalloproteinases was studied by following both the loss of its N-terminal propeptide and the accompanying increase in the rate of hydrolysis of a synthetic substrate. Activated stromelysin 1 was unable to cause any activation of progelatinase A beyond that slowly occuring by autolysis, but an 8 h incubation with activated matrilysin was able to produce 64% of the activity generated by incubation with (4-aminophenylmercuric)acetate (APMA). Wild-type progelatinase A and a mutant proenzyme that cannot become active were both cleaved by matrilysin to a lower molecular weight species that had lost the propeptide. This shows that matrilysin activates progelatinase A by removing the propeptide in a process that does not require any autolytic cleavages.