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Biological Factors > Blood Coagulation Factors > Kallikreins > Tissue Kallikreins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Blood Coagulation Factors > Kallikreins > Tissue Kallikreins
... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Hydrolases > Peptide Hydrolases > Endopeptidases > Serine Endopeptidases > Kallikreins > Tissue Kallikreins
... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Hydrolases > Peptide Hydrolases > Serine Proteases > Serine Endopeptidases > Kallikreins > Tissue Kallikreins
Biological Factors > Biomarkers > Biomarkers, Tumor > Tissue Kallikreins

Preferred term

Tissue Kallikreins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Glandular Kallikrein
  • Glandular Kallikreins, Human
  • Human Glandular Kallikreins
  • Kallikrein, Glandular
  • Kallikreins, Human Glandular
  • Kallikrein, Tissue
  • Tissue Kallikrein

Note

  • do not confuse PROSTATE SPECIFIC KALLIKREIN with PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN

Scope note

  • A family of trypsin-like SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES that are expressed in a variety of cell types including human prostate epithelial cells. They are formed from tissue prokallikrein by action with TRYPSIN. They are highly similar to PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN.

History note

  • 2000; use TISSUE KALLIKREIN (NM) 1983-1999

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020840

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