Medical Definition of Transin
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Protease secreted by carcinoma cells: carboxy terminal domain has distant homology to haemopexin (hem binding protein) and the N terminal domain has the proteolytic activity. May be involved in digestion of extracellular matrix.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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