Norman M. Schechter

Overview

Best Publications

• Two types of human mast cells that have distinct neutral protease compositions.

  A A Irani;N M Schechter;S S Craig;G DeBlois

  1349
  Citations

• Quantitation of histamine, tryptase, and chymase in dispersed human T and TC mast cells.

  L. B. Schwartz;A.-M. A. Irani;K. Roller;M. C. Castells

  673
  Citations

• Kallikrein-mediated proteolysis regulates the antimicrobial effects of cathelicidins in skin

  Kenshi Yamasaki;Jürgen Schauber;Alvin Coda;Henry Lin

  557
  Citations

• Detection of MCT and MCTC types of human mast cells by immunohistochemistry using new monoclonal anti-tryptase and anti-chymase antibodies.

  Anne-Marie A. Irani;Timothy R. Bradford;Christopher L. Kepley;Norman M. Schechter

  500
  Citations

• Identification of a cathepsin G-like proteinase in the MCTC type of human mast cell.

  Unknown

  285
  Citations

• Squamous Cell Carcinoma Antigen 2 Is a Novel Serpin That Inhibits the Chymotrypsin-like Proteinases Cathepsin G and Mast Cell Chymase

  Charles Schick;Yoshiro Kamachi;Allison J. Bartuski;Sule Çataltepe

  265
  Citations

• Degradation of the epidermal-dermal junction by proteolytic enzymes from human skin and human polymorphonuclear leukocytes

  Robert A. Briggaman;Norman M. Schechter;Jorma Fraki;Gerald S. Lazarus

  258
  Citations

• Mammalian chymotrypsin-like enzymes: comparative reactivities of rat mast cell proteases, human and dog skin chymases, and human cathepsin G with peptide 4-nitroanilide substrates and with peptide chloromethyl ketone and sulfonyl fluoride inhibitors

  J C Powers;T Tanaka;J W Harper;Y Minematsu

  246
  Citations

• Cleavage of Type I Procollagen by Human Mast Cell Chymase Initiates Collagen Fibril Formation and Generates a Unique Carboxyl-terminal Propeptide

  Mark W. Kofford;Lawrence B. Schwartz;Norman M. Schechter;Dorne R. Yager

  237
  Citations

• Specificity profiling of seven human tissue kallikreins reveals individual subsite preferences.

  Mekdes Debela;Mekdes Debela;Viktor Magdolen;Norman Schechter;Martina Valachova;Martina Valachova

  214
  Citations

• Reaction of mast cell proteases tryptase and chymase with protease activated receptors (PARs) on keratinocytes and fibroblasts.

  Norman M. Schechter;Lawrence F. Brass;Robert M. Lavker;Pamela J. Jensen

  212
  Citations

• Ultrastructural analysis of human T and TC mast cells identified by immunoelectron microscopy.

  Craig Ss;Schechter Nm;Schwartz Lb

  211
  Citations

• Inhibition of human kallikreins 5 and 7 by the serine protease inhibitor lympho-epithelial Kazal-type inhibitor (LEKTI).

  Norman M. Schechter;Eun Jung Choi;Zhe Mei Wang;Yasushi Hanakawa

  145
  Citations

• Structural basis of the zinc inhibition of human tissue kallikrein 5.

  Mekdes Debela;Peter Goettig;Viktor Magdolen;Robert Huber

  119
  Citations

• Mast Cell Chymase Modifies Cell-Matrix Interactions and Inhibits Mitogen-Induced Proliferation of Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells

  Aili L. Lazaar;Michael I. Plotnick;Umberto Kucich;Irene Crichton

  117
  Citations

• Ultrastructural analysis of maturing human T and TC mast cells in situ.

  Craig Ss;Schechter Nm;Schwartz Lb

  117
  Citations

• Chymotryptic specificity determinants in the 1.0 Å structure of the zinc-inhibited human tissue kallikrein 7

  Mekdes Debela;Petra Hess;Viktor Magdolen;Norman M. Schechter

  116
  Citations

• Plasminogen activator inhibitor type 2: an intracellular keratinocyte differentiation product that is incorporated into the cornified envelope.

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  111
  Citations

• Structures and specificity of the human kallikrein-related peptidases KLK 4, 5, 6, and 7.

  Mekdes Debela;Nathalie Beaufort;Viktor Magdolen;Norman M Schechter

  110
  Citations

• Soybean Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor is a highly effective inhibitor of human mast cell chymase

  Unknown

  107
  Citations