Hepatocyte growth factor is a preferred in vitro substrate for human hepsin, a membrane-anchored serine protease implicated in prostate and ovarian cancers.

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Published in Biochem J on August 15, 2005

Authors

Sylvia Herter1, Derek E Piper, Wade Aaron, Timothy Gabriele, Gene Cutler, Ping Cao, Ami S Bhatt, Youngchool Choe, Charles S Craik, Nigel Walker, David Meininger, Timothy Hoey, Richard J Austin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biology, Amgen San Francisco, 1120 Veterans Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.

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