Furin Is the Major Proprotein Convertase Required for KISS1-to-Kisspeptin Processing

Sitaram Harihar; Keke M. Pounds; Tomoo Iwakuma; Nabil G. Seidah; Danny R. Welch

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084958

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Furin Is the Major Proprotein Convertase Required for KISS1-to-Kisspeptin Processing

Sitaram Harihar,

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America
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Keke M. Pounds,

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America
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Tomoo Iwakuma,

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America
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Nabil G. Seidah,

Affiliation Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, affiliated to Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Danny R. Welch

* E-mail: Dwelch@KUMC.edu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America
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Furin Is the Major Proprotein Convertase Required for KISS1-to-Kisspeptin Processing

Sitaram Harihar,
Keke M. Pounds,
Tomoo Iwakuma,
Nabil G. Seidah,
Danny R. Welch

Published: January 13, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084958

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