Furin
"Furin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A proprotein convertase with specificity for the proproteins of PROALBUMIN; COMPLEMENT 3C; and VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR. It has specificity for cleavage near paired ARGININE residues that are separated by two amino acids.
| Descriptor ID |
D045683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.300.760.353 D08.811.277.656.837.249 D08.811.277.656.959.350.353
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| Concept/Terms |
Furin- Furin
- Dibasic Processing Enzyme
- Processing Enzyme, Dibasic
- Furin Protein
- SPC1 Proteinase
- Paired Basic Amino Acid Cleaving Enzyme
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Furin" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Chen C, Gupta P, Parashar D, Nair GG, George J, Geethadevi A, Wang W, Tsaih SW, Bradley W, Ramchandran R, Rader JS, Chaluvally-Raghavan P, Pradeep S. ERBB3-induced furin promotes the progression and metastasis of ovarian cancer via the IGF1R/STAT3 signaling axis. Oncogene. 2020 04; 39(14):2921-2933.