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ArticlePlacenta

Expression of cathepsin P mRNA, protein and activity in the rat choriocarcinoma cell line, Rcho-1, during giant cell transformation.

M Hassanein, B D Korant, G Lu, R W Mason

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Article in Placenta. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M HassaneinDepartment of Biomedical Research, Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, 1600 Rock land Road, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA.
B D Korant
G Lu
R W Mason
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children · US

Funding

TRAJECTORIES OF CHANGE IN BMI STATUS IN EARLY CHILDHOODP20RR020173 · NCRR · NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, DELAWARE · PI MASON, ROBERT · 2004 to 2011
$14.9M
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR020173NCRR NIH HHS P20RR20173
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lysosomal proteases perform critical functions in protein turnover and are essential for normal growth and development. Cathepsin P is a member of a newly discovered family of lysosomal cysteine proteases uniquely expressed in rodent placenta (PECs), and is closely related to human cathepsin L. Using the rat choriocarcinoma cell line model, Rcho-1, mRNA for the PECs cathepsins P, M, Q, R, 1, 2 was found to increase in expression during differentiation into a trophoblast giant cell phenotype. By contrast, expression of cathepsin L was not regulated. A specific enzyme assay was developed to show that activity of cathepsin P mirrored mRNA expression during differentiation. Cathepsin P protein co-localizes with cathepsin B, indicating that the enzyme probably functions in the endosomal-lysosomal compartment. This study demonstrates that the PEC genes produce functional proteases that can perform specific placental roles that are probably performed by broader specificity proteases in human placenta.

Indexed as

Cathepsin ZRNA, MessengerAnimalsCell LineChoriocarcinomaFemaleGiant CellsHumansPlacentaPregnancyRatsCathepsin ZRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID17218008
PMCPMC4159944
OpenAlexW1984951294

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