Role of Meprins to Protect Ileal Mucosa of Crohn's Disease Patients from Colonization by Adherent-Invasive E. coli

Crohn disease–associated adherent-invasive E. coli bacteria target mouse and human Peyer’s patches via long polar fimbriae

(2011) Benoit Chassaing et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Balance of meprin A and B in mice affects the progression of experimental inflammatory bowel disease

(2010) Sanjita Banerjee et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY

Analyzing the protease web in skin: meprin metalloproteases are activated specifically by KLK4, 5 and 8 vice versa leading to processing of proKLK7 thereby triggering its activation

(2010) Anke Ohler et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Abnormally expressed ER stress response chaperone Gp96 in CD favours adherent-invasive Escherichia coli invasion

(2010) N. Rolhion et al.   GUT

Let It Flow: Morpholino Knockdown in Zebrafish Embryos Reveals a Pro-Angiogenic Effect of the Metalloprotease Meprin α2

(2010) André Schütte et al.   PLoS One

Meprin A and meprin α generate biologically functional IL-1β from pro-IL-1β

(2009) Christian Herzog et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Crohn's disease adherent-invasiveEscherichia colicolonize and induce strong gut inflammation in transgenic mice expressing human CEACAM

(2009) Frédéric A. Carvalho et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

MEP1A allele for meprin A metalloprotease is a susceptibility gene for inflammatory bowel disease

(2009) S Banerjee et al.   Mucosal Immunology

Microbial Influences in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

(2008) R. Balfour Sartor   GASTROENTEROLOGY