Amino‐terminal truncation of procalcitonin, a marker for systemic bacterial infections, by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DP IV)
Open Access
- 18 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 466 (1) , 155-159
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01779-2
Abstract
Increased concentrations of procalcitonin (PCT) are found in the plasma of patients with thermal injury and in patients with sepsis and severe infection, making this molecule important as a diagnosti...This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
- CD26, let it cut or cut it downPublished by Elsevier ,1999
- Procalcitonin — A new indicator of the systemic response to severe infectionsInfection, 1997
- Evolution and significance of circulating procalcitonin levels compared with IL-6, TNFα and endotoxin levels early after thermal injuryBurns, 1997
- Procalcitonin in patients with and without immunosuppression and sepsisInfection, 1996
- Procalcitonin increase after endotoxin injection in normal subjectsJournal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1994
- CD26: a surface protease involved in T-cell activationImmunology Today, 1994
- Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (CD 26) and aminopeptidase N (CD 13) catalyzed hydrolysis of cytokines and peptides with N‐terminal cytokine sequencesFEBS Letters, 1993
- High serum procalcitonin concentrations in patients with sepsis and infectionPublished by Elsevier ,1993
- Proline-Dependent Structural and Biological Properties of Peptides and ProteinsCritical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1993
- [15] Engineering Escherchia coli to secrete heterologous gene productsPublished by Elsevier ,1990