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SUBMITTER: Inoue K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3080147 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications 20110324 Pt 4
Autotaxin (ATX), which is also known as ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 2 (NPP2 or ENPP2) or phosphodiesterase Iα (PD-Iα), is an extracellular lysophospholipase D which generates lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) from lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC). ATX stimulates tumour-cell migration, angiogenesis and metastasis and is an attractive target for cancer therapy. For crystallographic studies, the α isoform of human ATX was overproduced in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized using ...[more]