Many membrane proteins undergo ectodomain shedding by proteolytic cleavage. Does one sheddase do the job on all of these proteins?

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Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Published: January 2007

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