"Furin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A proprotein convertase with specificity for the proproteins of PROALBUMIN; COMPLEMENT 3C; and VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR. It has specificity for cleavage near paired ARGININE residues that are separated by two amino acids.
| Descriptor ID |
D045683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.300.760.353 D08.811.277.656.837.249 D08.811.277.656.959.350.353
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| Concept/Terms |
Furin- Furin
- Dibasic Processing Enzyme
- Processing Enzyme, Dibasic
- Furin Protein
- SPC1 Proteinase
- Paired Basic Amino Acid Cleaving Enzyme
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Furin" by people in Profiles.
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Li X, Xiu W, Xiao H, Li Y, Yang K, Yuwen L, Yang D, Weng L, Wang L. Fluorescence and ratiometric photoacoustic imaging of endogenous furin activity via peptide functionalized MoS2 nanosheets. Biomater Sci. 2021 Dec 07; 9(24):8313-8322.
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Klaver E, Zhao P, May M, Flanagan-Steet H, Freeze HH, Gilmore R, Wells L, Contessa J, Steet R. Selective inhibition of N-linked glycosylation impairs receptor tyrosine kinase processing. Dis Model Mech. 2019 06 05; 12(6).
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Li Y, Liu W, Guan X, Truscott J, Creemers JW, Chen HL, Pesu M, El Abiad RG, Karacay B, Urban JF, Elliott DE, Kaplan MH, Blazar BR, Ince MN. STAT6 and Furin Are Successive Triggers for the Production of TGF-? by T Cells. J Immunol. 2018 11 01; 201(9):2612-2623.
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Toledano S, Lu H, Palacio A, Ziv K, Kessler O, Schaal S, Neufeld G, Barak Y. A Sema3C Mutant Resistant to Cleavage by Furin (FR-Sema3C) Inhibits Choroidal Neovascularization. PLoS One. 2016; 11(12):e0168122.
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Opal SM, Artenstein AW, Cristofaro PA, Jhung JW, Palardy JE, Parejo NA, Lim YP. Inter-alpha-inhibitor proteins are endogenous furin inhibitors and provide protection against experimental anthrax intoxication. Infect Immun. 2005 Aug; 73(8):5101-5.