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Author: J. F. Woessner
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781383020427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study covers the sequence information, three-dimensional structures, activation, protein substrates, specificity requirements, inhibition, and biological roles of identified MMPs.
Author: J. F. Woessner
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780198502685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a large family of enzymes that breakdown different components of the extracellular matrix. Their catalytic activity is dependent a metal ion, usually zinc. This issue of the Protein Profiles covers the sequence information, three-dimensional structures, activation, protein substrates, specificity requirements, inhibition, and biological roles of all the currently identified MMPs. The action of these enzymes must be carefully regulated. One way the cell does this, is by releasing inhibitory molecules known as tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs). This volume contains information on the sequences, three-dimensional structures, and biological roles of the 4 known classes of TIMP. Matrix metalloproteinases will therefore be an invaluable source of data for all researchers interested in MMPs and TIMPs.
Author: Neil J. Clendeninn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2000-09-17
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 159259011X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCutting-edge investigators review the current status of the entire field, from the biology of MMPs through the current clinical studies. The authors include many leading scientists from pharmaceutical companies who present all the latest concepts and results on the preferred design strategies for MMP inhibitors, their molecular mechanisms, and their substrates. In addition, they fully describe their personal research on specific MMP inhibitors, detailing vanguard design strategies, their in vitro activity, the outcome of animal model studies and, where available, their toxicology, safety, efficacy in human clinical trials. Comprehensive and state-of-the-art, Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy offers basic and clinical investigators alike a richly informative summary of all the latest research on these powerful new drugs, and their high promise as emerging cancer therapeutics.
Author: Marc Dilly
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 3736937245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis is submitted as a cumulative thesis with the main issue of elucidating potential functions and the regulation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their inhibitors (TIMPs) in the bovine placenta. The thesis consists of two parts; each part being covered in one original paper published in peer reviewed journals. The first part analyses the involvement of MMPs/TIMPs in restricted trophoblast invasion/migration in respect to signal transduction, cell motility and proliferation in bovine trophoblast cells in vitro. The second part contains results of in vivo studies concerning the localization and expression of the MMP/TIMP system in different experimental groups and its possible involvement in the aetiology of retained fetal membranes (RFM).
Author: Francesco Travascio
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2017-12-20
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9535137174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of proteolytic zinc-containing enzymes involved in physiological as well as in pathological processes in the human organism. MMPs play a key role in the remodeling of the extracellular matrix. Such a process may occur because of tissue homeostasis, morphogenesis, and tissue repair. However, remodeling could also be a part of many pathological states such as arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, or impaired development in congenital anomalies. This book overviews the role of MMPs in different pathologies affecting the human body.
Author: Katherine Conant
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2005-07-26
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1783260289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the reader with an understanding of the role played by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in the normal and diseased central nervous system (CNS). These enzymes may be important to brain development, and may also contribute to tissue destruction, which is observed with inflammatory and degenerative conditions of the brain. The book provides a background on the biology of MMPs, and on the stimuli and conditions that are linked to an increase in their production and activity. It describes the targets of MMPs, which include matrix proteins such as collagen, soluble cytokines and chemokines, and cell surface receptors. Studies implicating MMPs in neuronal process outgrowth and cell migration in CNS development are covered. The book also touches on studies suggesting that, in certain situations, dysregulated MMP activity and/or production may be critical to blood-brain barrier breakdown and neuronal damage./a
Author: NM Hooper
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1996-07-30
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1482272768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe zinc metalloproteases are a diverse group of enzymes which are becoming increasingly important in a variety of biological systems. Their major function is to break down proteins. This text presents recent research results on the biochemistry and molecular biology of these enzymes.
Author: M. Nelson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2001-10-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783764362829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tetracyclines have an illustrious history as therapeutic agents which dates back over half a century. Initially discovered as an antibiotic in 1947, the four ringed molecule has captured the fancy of chemists and biologists over the ensuing decades. Of further interest, as described in the chapter by George Armelagos, tetracyclines were already part of earlier cultures, 1500-1700 years ago, as revealed in traces of drug found in Sudanese Nubian mummies. The diversity of chapters which this book presents to the reader should illus trate the many disciplines which have examined and seen benefits from these fascinating natural molecules. From antibacterial to anti-inflammatory to anti autoimmunity to gene regulation, tetracyclines have been modified and redesigned for various novel properties. Some have called this molecule a biol ogist's dream because of its versatility, but others have seen it as a chemist's nightmare because of the synthetic chemistry challenges and "chameleon-like" properties (see the chapter by S. Schneider).
Author: Ian M. Clark
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 1592590462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch in the matrix metalloproteinase field began with the demonstration by Gross and Lapière, in 1962, that resorbing tadpole tail expressed an enzyme that could degrade collagen gels. These humble beginnings have led us to the elucidation of around twenty distinct vertebrate MMPs, along with a variety of homologs from such diverse organisms as sea urchin, plants, nematode worm, and bacteria. This, coupled with four known specific inhibitors of MMPs, the TIMPs, gives a complex picture. Part I of Matrix Metalloproteinase Protocols provides the reader with a selective overview of the MMP arena, and a chance to come to grips with where the field has been, where it is, and where it is going. I hope that this complements all of the methodology that comes later. Part II presents the reader with a diverse set of methods for the expression and purification of MMPs and TIMPs, bringing together the long and often hard-earned experience of a number of researchers. Part III allows the reader to detect MMPs and TIMPs at both the protein and mRNA level, whereas Part IV gives the ability to assay MMP and TIMP activities in a wide variety of circumstances.
Author: Vincent Lagente
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-11-07
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 3764385855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides new advances regarding the involvement of MMPs in various diseases associated with inflammatory processes. Moreover, the recent development of selective and non selective inhibitors of MMPs give new insights in the relationship between activation of inflammatory cells and tissue remodelling and advise new therapeutics possibilities to the treatment of inflammatory disease. The volume has an international authorship and is written by leading experts in the field.
