Kallikrein 4 Is a Secreted Protein
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Kallikrein 4 is a secreted protein.
reported that kallikrein 4 (KLK4) is predominantly a nuclear protein. They state that the KLK4 gene has only four exons when actually it has five (the first exon is noncoding; ref. 2), and they state that the first coding exon is not physiologically significant and is not present in the vast majority of KLK4 transcripts. We would like to raise several concerns about the experimental evidence us...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0008-5472,1538-7445
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-04-1660