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RNPEP  -  arginyl aminopeptidase (aminopeptidase B)

Homo sapiens

Synonyms: AP-B, APB, Aminopeptidase B, Arginine aminopeptidase, Arginyl aminopeptidase
 
 
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Disease relevance of RNPEP

 

High impact information on RNPEP

  • Less is known about the regulation of responses mediated by AMPA, kainate, ACPD or APB receptors [5].
  • Functionally, this APB receptor-mediated action found in horizontal cells would provide a means by which spatially restricted changes of glutamate, produced by local illumination of photoreceptors, could regulate IRK+ and consequently the response properties of these neurons [6].
  • We find that glutamate and APB (2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate) produce a delayed and moderately prolonged suppression of an inward rectifier current (IRK+) [6].
  • We hypothesize that the APB receptor suppresses IRK+ via upregulation of cGMP and subsequent activation of a cGMP-dependent protein kinase [6].
  • The effects of glutamate and APB are blocked by protein kinase inhibitors including Rp-8-pCPT-cGMPS, H-8, and H-7 as well as by ATPgammaS [6].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of RNPEP

 

Biological context of RNPEP

 

Anatomical context of RNPEP

  • It is concluded that aminopeptidase B may participate in processing events occurring either during its intracellular transport along the secretory pathway or at the plasma membrane level, or both [1].
  • Finally, we found that AP-B was up-regulated during activation of normal and leukemic T lymphocytes [15].
  • We studied I wave interaction, ICI and ICF in an intrinsic hand muscle (abductor pollicis brevis, APB), in a proximal arm muscle (biceps brachii, BB) and in a lower limb muscle (tibialis anterior, TA) in 11 normal subjects [16].
  • A ubenimex-sensitive aminopeptidase B-like enzyme was purified from the non-membrane-bound fraction of K562 cells by a series of chromatographic procedures and slab-gel electrophoresis [17].
  • The motor and sensory conduction studies showed only a reduced mean amplitude of the ulnar nerve SAP and of the compound muscle action potential of the APB and EDB muscles [18].
 

Associations of RNPEP with chemical compounds

  • The identification of the hydrolyzing activity as AP-B was confirmed by its sensitivity to both arphamenine B and bestatin in the nanomolar range [15].
  • Purified AP-B cleaved N-terminal basic amino acid-containing peptides such as thymopentin (H-Arg-Lys-Asp-Val-Tyr-OH), indicating that it might play a role in the regulation of the concentration of important soluble mediators of T cell activation [15].
  • Whereas ProTx-II can be quantitatively depleted from solution upon incubation with phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylserine liposomes, ApB displays no discernible phospholipid binding activity [19].
  • Synthesis and structure-activity relationships of bestatin analogues, inhibitors of aminopeptidase B [20].
  • The 2-thiolbestatin analogue (6) was found to be a potent inhibitor of all three aminopeptidases (AP-M, Ki = 4.4 microM; LAP, Ki = 0.55 microM; AP-B, Ki = 4.6 nM) but only a slightly better inhibitor of these aminopeptidases than the parent hydroxy-containing compound 1 [21].
 

Other interactions of RNPEP

 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of RNPEP

  • A rabbit polyclonal antibody was shown to recognize AP-B as assessed by both immunoprecipitation and Western blot experiments [15].
  • Low amplitude muscle vibration (0.5 ms; 80 Hz; duration 1.5 s) was applied in turn to each of three different intrinsic hand muscles (first dorsal interosseus, FDI; abductor pollicis brevis, APB; and abductor digiti minimi, ADM) in order to test its effect on the EMG responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) [26].
  • A precise, rapid, automated, rate nephelometric immunoassay for apolipoprotein AI (APA) and apolipoprotein B (APB) is described [27].
  • A complex containing APB could be isolated from a "trimeric" allophycocyanin fraction of the density gradient by agarose gel electrophoresis in the presence of ampholytes [28].
  • The polypeptide composition analyzed by SDS-PAGE showed the "anchor" polypeptide LCM, alpha AP, alpha APB, beta AP subunits, a low molecular weight linker with M(r) 13,500 and a blue-colored polypeptide of M(r) 19,800 [28].

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