Cathepsin L
"Cathepsin L" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A ubiquitously-expressed cysteine protease that plays an enzymatic role in POST-TRANSLATIONAL PROTEIN PROCESSING of proteins within SECRETORY GRANULES.
| Descriptor ID |
D056668
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.224.407 D08.811.277.656.262.500.157 D08.811.277.656.300.200.157
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cathepsin L" by people in Profiles.
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Hook V, Funkelstein L, Wegrzyn J, Bark S, Kindy M, Hook G. Cysteine Cathepsins in the secretory vesicle produce active peptides: Cathepsin L generates peptide neurotransmitters and cathepsin B produces beta-amyloid of Alzheimer's disease. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Jan; 1824(1):89-104.
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Hook V, Funkelstein L, Lu D, Bark S, Wegrzyn J, Hwang SR. Proteases for processing proneuropeptides into peptide neurotransmitters and hormones. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 2008; 48:393-423.
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Hwang SR, O'Neill A, Bark S, Foulon T, Hook V. Secretory vesicle aminopeptidase B related to neuropeptide processing: molecular identification and subcellular localization to enkephalin- and NPY-containing chromaffin granules. J Neurochem. 2007 Mar; 100(5):1340-50.