Tissue kallikrein (hK1) cleaves low-molecular-weight kininogen to produce kinin peptide, which binds to kinin receptors and triggers a wide spectrum of biological effects...
Keywords: Angiogenesis, Apoptosis, brain, heart, hypertension, kinin B2 receptor, oxidative stress, tissue kallikrein
06/2006 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterA new tissue kallikrein-like protease, blarinasin, has been purified from the salivary glands of the short-tailed shrew
Keywords: amino acid sequence analysis, blarina toxin, blarinasin, salivary glands, short-tailed shrew, tissue kallikrein
02/2005 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterMalignant mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer of the pleura that is causally related to exposure to asbestos fibres...
Keywords: kallikrein related-peptidases, kinin B1 and B2 receptors, plasma kallikrein, pleural mesothelioma, tissue kallikrein
11/2007 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterTissue kallikrein (hK1) and plasma kallikrein (PK, hKB1) are serine proteases that produce biologically active kinin peptides from endogenous kininogen substrates...
Keywords: cancer biomarkers, kinin B1 and B2 receptors, lung carcinoma subtypes, plasma kallikrein, tissue kallikrein
09/2008 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterAdenovirus-mediated kallikrein delivery has been shown to promote blood vessel growth in the limb under both ischemic and normoperfused conditions...
Keywords: Angiogenesis, blood flow, bradykinin, Ischemia, limb, tissue kallikrein
06/2008 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de Gruyter