Application | Comment | Organism |
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pharmacology | meprin-beta is strong candidate for a proinflammatory target | Homo sapiens |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | Q16820 | - |
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Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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macrophage | from primary human peripheral blood | Homo sapiens | - |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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meprin-beta | - |
Homo sapiens |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | meprin-beta regulates production of pro-inflammatory factors via a disintegrin and metalloproteinase-10 (ADAM-10) dependent pathway in macrophages. Meprin-beta increases the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including interleukin-1beta, interleukin-18 and interleukin-6 in macrophages, but shows no effects on the level of ligands of epidermal growth factor receptor and its activation. Activation of NF-kappaB by meprin-beta is mediated by inhibiting ADAM10-downstream extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK1/2) pathway, molecular mechanism, overview. Meprin-beta significantly induces the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and its upstream MEK1/2 | Homo sapiens |