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1993 • 2,998 citations

Cell surface glycoprotein of reactive stromal fibroblasts as a potential antibody target in human epithelial cancers.

1990 • 677 citations

Molecular cloning of fibroblast activation protein alpha, a member of the serine protease family selectively expressed in stromal fibroblasts of epithelial cancers.

1994 • 522 citations

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1999 • 521 citations

CD26, let it cut or cut it down

1999 • 454 citations

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1994 • 411 citations

Fibroblast activation protein: A cell surface dipeptidyl peptidase and gelatinase expressed by stellate cells at the tissue remodelling interface in human cirrhosis

1999 • 296 citations

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2001 • 273 citations

A potential marker protease of invasiveness, seprase, is localized on invadopodia of human malignant melanoma cells.

1994 • 242 citations

A Novel Protease-docking Function of Integrin at Invadopodia

1999 • 225 citations

Evidence for a role of dipeptidyl peptidase IV in fibronectin-mediated interactions of hepatocytes with extracellular matrix

1989 • 179 citations

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1998 • 166 citations

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1999 • 163 citations

Identification of the 170-kDa Melanoma Membrane-bound Gelatinase (Seprase) as a Serine Integral Membrane Protease

1997 • 155 citations

The Cysteine-Rich Region of Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV (CD 26) Is the Collagen Binding Site

1995 • 142 citations

Molecular cloning of seprase: a serine integral membrane protease from human melanoma

1997 • 140 citations

Collagenase Expression Is Rapidly Induced in Wound-Edge Keratinocytes After Acute Injury in Human Skin, Persists During Healing, and Stops at Re-Epithelialization

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A 170-kDa membrane-bound protease is associated with the expression of invasiveness by human malignant melanoma cells.

1990 • 125 citations

Proteases Associated with Invadopodia, and Their Role in Degradation of Extracellular Matrix

1996 • 123 citations

A Mechanism for Regulation of Melanoma Invasion

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A collagen-binding glycoprotein on the surface of mouse fibroblasts is identified as dipeptidyl peptidase IV

1988 • 114 citations

Direct evidence for the binding of rat liver DPP IV to collagen in vitro

1988 • 112 citations

Identification of Neutrophil Elastase as the Proteinase in Burn Wound Fluid Responsible for Degradation of Fibronectin

1994 • 108 citations

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1994 • 104 citations

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Proteolysis of extracellular matrix by invadopodia facilitates human breast cancer cell invasion and is mediated by matrix metalloproteinases.

1998 • 82 citations

Seprase, a membrane-bound protease, is overexpressed by invasive ductal carcinoma cells of human breast cancers.

1998 • 79 citations

Rat dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV) exhibits endopeptidase activity with specificity for denatured fibrillar collagens

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Substrates containing phosphorylated residues adjacent to proline decrease the cleavage by proline-specific peptidases

1996 • 33 citations

Evaluation of seprase activity.

1999 • 23 citations