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Proprotein convertase activation of aggrecanases in cartilage in situ.

Defective expression of prohormone convertase 4 and enhanced expression of insulin-like growth factor II by pleural solitary fibrous tumor causing hypoglycemia.

Design of peptide inhibitors for furin based on the C-terminal fragment of histone H1.2.

Pharmacologic inhibition of site 1 protease activity inhibits sterol regulatory element-binding protein processing and reduces lipogenic enzyme gene expression and lipid synthesis in cultured cells and experimental animals.

Gene expression alterations of neurotrophins, their receptors and prohormone convertases in a rat model of spinal cord contusion.

Activation mechanism, functional role and shedding of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored Yps1p at the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface.

In vivo quality control of photosystem II in cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: D1 protein degradation and repair under the influence of light, heat and darkness.

Substrate cleavage analysis of furin and related proprotein convertases. A comparative study.

Mitotic regulation of SREBP and ATF6 by separation of the Golgi and ER.

Measurements of secretogranins II, III, V and proconvertases 1/3 and 2 in plasma from patients with neuroendocrine tumours.

Expression of a kexin-like gene from the human pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

VACTERL/caudal regression/Currarino syndrome-like malformations in mice with mutation in the proprotein convertase Pcsk5.

Site 1 protease is required for proteolytic processing of the glycoproteins of the South American hemorrhagic fever viruses Junin, Machupo, and Guanarito.

Spatial separation of Golgi and ER during mitosis protects SREBP from unregulated activation.

NGF and BDNF expression drop off in neurally differentiated bone marrow stromal stem cells

Genetics and molecular biology: proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 and LDL receptor--an intriguing story.

Expression of proglucagon and proglucagon-derived peptide hormone receptor genes in the chicken.

Cell-surface processing of extracellular human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Vpr by proprotein convertases

Inhibitory feature of the proprotein convertases prosegments.

Implication of a regulator of G protein signalling (BbRGS1) in conidiation and conidial thermotolerance of the insect pathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana.