"ADAM Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of membrane-anchored glycoproteins that contain a disintegrin and metalloprotease domain. They are responsible for the proteolytic cleavage of many transmembrane proteins and the release of their extracellular domain.
| Descriptor ID |
D051722
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.675.374.102 D09.400.430.500 D12.776.395.033
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| Concept/Terms |
ADAM Proteins- ADAM Proteins
- A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease Proteins
- ADAM (A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease) Proteins
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "ADAM Proteins" by people in Profiles.
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A genome-wide association study identifies four novel susceptibility loci underlying inguinal hernia. Nat Commun. 2015 Dec 21; 6:10130.