Endothelial proteases stimulated by blood platelets.
Endothelial cells secrete a protease which is activated in the extracellular medium by platelets. This protease PECAP, degrades casein and fibrinogen, and its characteristics differentiate it from the other known blood and vascular proteases.
Menashi
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Unité 150 INSERM Vaisseaux et Hémostase, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.
Flores-Delgado
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Legrand
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D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000502:physiology*; D002364:Caseins / Q000378:metabolism; D010450:Endopeptidases / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D005340:Fibrinogen / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans
D002364:Caseins; D005340:Fibrinogen; D010450:Endopeptidases; C070387:platelet endothelial cell activated protease