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Complementation cloning of S2P, a gene encoding a putative metalloprotease required for intramembrane cleavage of SREBPs.
Molecular cell - 1 Dec 1997
Rawson R B, Zelenski N G, Nijhawan D, Ye J, Sakai J, Hasan M T, Chang T Y, Brown M S, Goldstein J L
Abstract excerpt
We report the cloning of a gene, S2P, that encodes a putative metalloprotease required for intramembrane proteolysis of sterol-regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) at Site-2. SREBPs are membrane-bound transcription factors that activate genes regulating cholesterol metabolism. The active NH2-terminal domains of SREBPs are released from membranes by sequential cleavage at two sites: Site-1, within the...
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