Furin
"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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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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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.