"Cathepsin K" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A cysteine protease that is highly expressed in OSTEOCLASTS and plays an essential role in BONE RESORPTION as a potent EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX-degrading enzyme.
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D056657
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.224.405 D08.811.277.656.262.500.156 D08.811.277.656.300.200.156
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cathepsin K" by people in Profiles.
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Ruddy JM, Akerman AW, Kimbrough D, Nadeau EK, Stroud RE, Mukherjee R, Ikonomidis JS, Jones JA. Differential hypertensive protease expression in the thoracic versus abdominal aorta. J Vasc Surg. 2017 11; 66(5):1543-1552.
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Bronisz A, Carey HA, Godlewski J, Sif S, Ostrowski MC, Sharma SM. The multifunctional protein fused in sarcoma (FUS) is a coactivator of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF). J Biol Chem. 2014 Jan 03; 289(1):326-34.
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Sharma SM, Sif S, Ostrowski MC, Sankar U. Defective co-activator recruitment in osteoclasts from microphthalmia-oak ridge mutant mice. J Cell Physiol. 2009 Jul; 220(1):230-7.
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Sun Y, Ishibashi M, Seimon T, Lee M, Sharma SM, Fitzgerald KA, Samokhin AO, Wang Y, Sayers S, Aikawa M, Jerome WG, Ostrowski MC, Bromme D, Libby P, Tabas IA, Welch CL, Tall AR. Free cholesterol accumulation in macrophage membranes activates Toll-like receptors and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and induces cathepsin K. Circ Res. 2009 Feb 27; 104(4):455-65.
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Hu R, Sharma SM, Bronisz A, Srinivasan R, Sankar U, Ostrowski MC. Eos, MITF, and PU.1 recruit corepressors to osteoclast-specific genes in committed myeloid progenitors. Mol Cell Biol. 2007 Jun; 27(11):4018-27.
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Sharma SM, Bronisz A, Hu R, Patel K, Mansky KC, Sif S, Ostrowski MC. MITF and PU.1 recruit p38 MAPK and NFATc1 to target genes during osteoclast differentiation. J Biol Chem. 2007 May 25; 282(21):15921-9.
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Simpson CL, Lindley S, Eisenberg C, Basalyga DM, Starcher BC, Simionescu DT, Vyavahare NR. Toward cell therapy for vascular calcification: osteoclast-mediated demineralization of calcified elastin. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2007 Jan-Feb; 16(1):29-37.
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Sankar U, Patel K, Rosol TJ, Ostrowski MC. RANKL coordinates cell cycle withdrawal and differentiation in osteoclasts through the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p27KIP1 and p21CIP1. J Bone Miner Res. 2004 Aug; 19(8):1339-48.