Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

Amount

$43,031.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Ectodomain shedding, the proteolytic cleavage of an integral membrane protein to release the extracellular domain from the host cell, affects a variety of biologically important proteins including growth factor precursors, cytokine receptors, amyloid prec