Endothelin-converting enzyme-like 1 (ECEL1) is a putative zinc metalloprotease that was recently identified on the basis of its strong similarity to endothelin-converting enzyme 1. The physiological function of ECEL1 remains unknown so far; the failure to identify a substrate for ECEL1 could be related to the endoplasmic reticulum subcellular localization found by immunofluorescence in recombinant systems. However, clues to the function of ECEL1 were provided by the in-activation of its gene in mice, which resulted in neonatal lethality. The phenotype of homozygous ECEL1− mice, together with the very specific expression profile of its mRNA in the central nervous system, suggests that ECEL1 is crucially involved in the nervous control of respiration.
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August 01 2000
Endothelin-converting enzyme-like I (ECEL1; ‘XCE’): a putative metallopeptidase crucially involved in the nervous control of respiration
O. Valdenaire;
O. Valdenaire
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*Axovan Ltd, Gewerbestrasse 16, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland
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A. Schweizer
A. Schweizer
†Novartis Pharma AG, Clinical Research and Development, CME, Basel, Switzerland
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Received:
March 06 2000
Online ISSN: 1470-8752
Print ISSN: 0300-5127
© 2000 Biochemical Society
2000
Biochem Soc Trans (2000) 28 (4): 426–430.
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March 06 2000
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O. Valdenaire, A. Schweizer; Endothelin-converting enzyme-like I (ECEL1; ‘XCE’): a putative metallopeptidase crucially involved in the nervous control of respiration. Biochem Soc Trans 1 August 2000; 28 (4): 426–430. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bst0280426
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