Ihmisen MMP entsyymit voivat aktivoitua bakteerien proteinaaseilla

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Activation of Human Matrix Metalloproteinases by Various Bacterial Proteinases*

Tatsuya Okamoto^‡,^§, Takaaki Akaike^‡, Moritaka Suga^§,
Sumio Tanase^¶, Hidechika Horie^‡, Seiya Miyajima^‡,
Masayuki Ando^§, Yoshio Ichinose^∥ and Hiroshi Maeda^‡**

1. From the Department of ^‡ Microbiology
2. ^§ Internal Medicine I, and
3. ^¶ Biochemistry II, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto 860 and the
4. ^∥ Department of Bacteriology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852, Japan