Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Khaled MA, Venkatachalam CM et al (1981) Conformation characterization of cyclopentapeptide,
L.Val-L.Pro-Gly-L.Val-Gly: a repeating analogue of elastin. Int J Pept Protein Res 17(1):23-33
Kielty CM (2006) Elastic fibres in health and disease. Expert Rev Mol Med 8(19):1-23
Kielty CM, Sherratt MJ et al (2005) Fibrillin microfibrils. Adv Protein Chem 70:405-436
Kozel BA, Rongish BJ et al (2006) Elastic fiber formation: a dynamic view of extracellular matrix
assembly using timer reporters. J Cell Physiol 207(1):87-96
Kuhn C, Yu SY et al (1976) The induction of emphysema with elastase. II. Changes in connective
tissue. Lab Invest 34(4):372-380
Lee WL, Downey GP (2001a) Leukocyte elastase: physiological functions and role in acute lung
injury. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 164(5):896-904
Lee WL, Downey GP (2001b) Neutrophil activation and acute lung injury. Curr Opin Crit Care
7(1):1-7
Lee B, Godfrey M et al (1991) Linkage of Marfan syndrome and a phenotypically related disorder
to two different fibrillin genes. Nature 352(6333):330-334
Lee S, Jilani SM et al (2005) Processing of VEGF-A by matrix metalloproteinases regulates
bioavailability and vascular patterning in tumors. J Cell Biol 169(4):681-691
Li DY, Brooke B et al (1998a) Elastin is an essential determinant of arterial morphogenesis.
Nature 393(6682):276-280
Li DY, Faury G et al (1998b) Novel arterial pathology in mice and humans hemizygous for elastin.
J Clin Invest 102(10):1783-1787
Li Q, Park PW et al (2002) Matrilysin shedding of syndecan-1 regulates chemokine mobilization
and transepithelial efflux of neutrophils in acute lung injury. Cell 111(5):635-646
Lijnen HR, Van Hoef B et al (2009) Stromelysin-2 (MMP-10) deficiency does not affect adipose
tissue formation in a mouse model of nutritionally induced obesity. Biochem Biophys Res
Commun 389(2):378-381
Liou TG, Campbell EJ (1996) Quantum proteolysis resulting from release of single granules
by human neutrophils: a novel, nonoxidative mechanism of extracellular proteolytic activity.
J Immunol 157(6):2624-2631
Liu Z, Shipley JM et al (1998) Gelatinase B-deficient mice are resistant to experimental bullous
pemphigoid. J Exp Med 188(3):475-482
Liu Z, Shapiro SD et al (2000) A critical role for neutrophil elastase in experimental bullous
pemphigoid. J Clin Invest 105(1):113-123
Liu X, Zhao Y et al (2004) Elastic fiber homeostasis requires lysyl oxidase-like 1 protein.
Nat Genet 36(2):178-182
Loebermann H, Tokuoka R et al (1984) Human alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor. Crystal structure
analysis of two crystal modifications, molecular model and preliminary analysis of the impli-
cations for function. J Mol Biol 177(3):531-557
Long MM, King VJ et al (1989) Elastin repeat peptides as chemoattractants for bovine aortic
endothelial cells. J Cell Physiol 140(3):512-518
Longo GM, Xiong W et al (2002) Matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 work in concert to produce
aortic aneurysms. J Clin Invest 110(5):625-632
Longo GM, Buda SJ et al (2005) MMP-12 has a role in abdominal aortic aneurysms in mice.
Surgery 137(4):457-462
Lucero HA, Kagan HM (2006) Lysyl oxidase: an oxidative enzyme and effector of cell function.
Cell Mol Life Sci 63(19-20):2304-2316
Luisetti M, Ma S et al (2008) Desmosine as a biomarker of elastin degradation in COPD: current
status and future directions. Eur Respir J 32(5):1146-1157
Lutgens E, Lutgens SP et al (2006) Disruption of the cathepsin K gene reduces atherosclerosis
progression and induces plaque fibrosis but accelerates macrophage foam cell formation.
Circulation 113(1):98-107
Lutgens SP, Cleutjens KB et al (2007) Cathepsin cysteine proteases in cardiovascular disease.
FASEB J 21(12):3029-3041
