The ADAM Family of Proteases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hooper, Nigel M. (Editor), Lendeckel, Uwe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Proteases in Biology and Disease ; 4
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.

The ADAM Family of Proteases provides the first comprehensive review of the roles of ADAMs and the related ADAMTS proteases in biology and disease. Although a few members of the ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease) family have been known for some time, it is only in recent years through advances...

Table of Contents:

• Contributing Authors
• Preface
• Introduction to the ADAM Family, Judith White, Lance Bridges, Douglas DeSimone, Monika Tomczuk and Tyra Wolfsberg
• Studies from ADAM Knockout Mice, Keisuke Hoiruchi and Carl P. Blobel
• ADAM8/MS2/CD156a, Jörg W. Bartsch, Silvia Naus, Andrea Rittger, Uwe Schlomann, Dirk Wildeboer
• ADAM9, Shoichi Ishiura
• ADAM10, Paul Saftig and Dieter Hartmann
• ADAM12, Ulla M. Wewer, Reidar Albrechtsen and Eva Engvall
• Adam13 function in development, Dominique Alfandari, ADAM 17, Joaquín Arribas and Soraya Ruiz-Paz
• ADAM19, Tiebang Kang, Robert G. Newcomer, Yun-Ge Zhao and Qing-Xiang Amy Sang
• ADAM28, Anne M. Fourie
• Mammalian ADAMS with Testis-Specific Or -Predominant Expression, Chunghee Cho
• Overview OF ADAMTS Proteinases and ADAMTS-2, Daniel S. Greenspan and Wei-Man Wang
• ADAMTS-3 AND ADAMTS-14, Carine Le Goff and Suneel S. Apte
• ADAMTS-4 and ADAMTS-5, Anne-Marie Malfait, Micky Tortorella and Elizabeth Arner
• ADAMTS-13, Han-Mou Tsai
• Index.