Identification and characterization of a pro-tumor necrosis factor-alpha-processing enzyme from the ADAM family of zinc metalloproteases.
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Rosendahl MS, Ko SC, Long DL, Brewer MT, Rosenzweig B, Hedl E, Anderson L, Pyle SM, Moreland J, Meyers MA, Kohno T, Lyons D, Lichenstein HS
Identification and characterization of a pro-tumor necrosis factor-alpha-processing enzyme from the ADAM family of zinc metalloproteases.
J Biol Chem. 1997 Sep 26;272(39):24588-93.
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Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) is initially expressed as a 26-kDa membrane-bound precusor protein (pro-TNF) that is shed proteolytically from the cell surface, releasing soluble 17-kDa TNF. We have identified human ADAM 10 (HuAD10) from THP-1 membrane extracts as a metalloprotease that specifically clips a peptide substrate spanning the authentic cleavage site between Ala76 and Val77 in pro-TNF. To confirm that HuAD10 has TNF processing activity, we cloned, expressed, and purified an active, truncated form of HuAD10. Characterization of recombinant HuAD10 (rHuAD10) suggests that this enzyme has many of the properties (i.e. substrate specificity, metalloprotease activity, cellular location) expected for a physiologically relevant TNF-processing enzyme.