"Tropoelastin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A salt-soluble precursor of elastin. Lysyl oxidase is instrumental in converting it to elastin in connective tissue.
| Descriptor ID |
D014333
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.811.850 D12.776.860.300.350.700
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tropoelastin" by people in Profiles.
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Chapman SL, Sicot FX, Davis EC, Huang J, Sasaki T, Chu ML, Yanagisawa H. Fibulin-2 and fibulin-5 cooperatively function to form the internal elastic lamina and protect from vascular injury. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2010 Jan; 30(1):68-74.
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Kobayashi N, Kostka G, Garbe JH, Keene DR, B?chinger HP, Hanisch FG, Markova D, Tsuda T, Timpl R, Chu ML, Sasaki T. A comparative analysis of the fibulin protein family. Biochemical characterization, binding interactions, and tissue localization. J Biol Chem. 2007 Apr 20; 282(16):11805-16.
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Larsson A, Peng S, Persson H, Rosenbloom J, Abrams WR, Wassberg E, Thelin S, Sletten K, Gerwins P, Westermark P. Lactadherin binds to elastin--a starting point for medin amyloid formation? Amyloid. 2006 Jun; 13(2):78-85.
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Kucich U, Rosenbloom JC, Shen G, Abrams WR, Blaskovich MA, Hamilton AD, Ohkanda J, Sebti SM, Rosenbloom J. Requirement for geranylgeranyl transferase I and acyl transferase in the TGF-beta-stimulated pathway leading to elastin mRNA stabilization. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998 Nov 09; 252(1):111-6.
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Sechler JL, Sandberg LB, Roos PJ, Snyder I, Amenta PS, Riley DJ, Boyd CD. Elastin gene mutations in transgenic mice. Ciba Found Symp. 1995; 192:148-65; discussion 165-71.
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Indik Z, Yeh H, Ornstein-Goldstein N, Kucich U, Abrams W, Rosenbloom JC, Rosenbloom J. Structure of the elastin gene and alternative splicing of elastin mRNA: implications for human disease. Am J Med Genet. 1989 Sep; 34(1):81-90.