Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 18th, 2004
According to scientists writing in the journal Cancer Research, "we demonstrated previously that the switch from nonmetastatic to highly metastatic phenotype of human melanoma cells is directly related to secretion of procathepsin L form. This cysteine proteinase was identified on the basis of its property to cleave human C3, the third component of complement. In an attempt to control procathepsin L secretion, we have recently generated an anti-cathepsin L single chain variable fragment (ScFv) from an anti-cathepsin L monoclonal antibody generated against recombinant cathepsin...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2004-03-18)
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