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| He,Jin; Yang,Haoyu; Xu,Zhonghua; Li,Jin; Chen,Gang; Jiang,Lifeng; Wu,Lidong; Zhou,Xindie. |
| Abstract Paired basic amino acid-cleaving enzyme 4 (PACE4), a proprotein convertase, is involved in the activation of aggrecanases (ADAMTS-4 and ADAMTS-5) in osteoarthritic and cytokine-stimulated cartilage. Activated aggrecanases cause aggrecan degradation and thus, contribute to osteoarthritis (OA). In this study, we investigated the association between PACE4 gene polymorphisms and OA risk. One single-nucleotide polymorphism (rs4965833) in the PACE4 gene was genotyped in 432 OA patients and 523 healthy controls using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) was used to determine the relative expression of PACE4 in blood samples from 90 OA patients (30 for each... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: ACE4; Osteoarthritis; Bioinformatics analysis; Single-nucleotide polymorphism. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572020000100104 |
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