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SUBMITTER: Huang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3920740 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Yibing Y Shi Junfeng J Yuan Dan D Zhou Ning N Xu Bing B
Biopolymers 20131101 6
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), as the enzymes to degrade extracellular matrix proteins, play a major role on cell behaviors. Among them, MMP-9 usually catalyzes the degradation of proteins with the dominant cleavage at G/L site. Recent high-throughput screening suggests that S/L is a new major site for the cleavage when the substrates of MMP-9 are oligopeptides. Here we examine the cleavage sites of the N-terminal substituted short oligopeptides as the substrates of MMP-9. As the first exampl ...[more]