Heparanase facilitates cell adhesion and spreading by clustering of cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans.

Heparanase is a heparan sulfate (HS) degrading endoglycosidase participating in extracellular matrix degradation and remodeling. Apart of its well characterized enzymatic activity, heparanase was noted to exert also enzymatic-independent functions. Non-enzymatic activities of heparanase include enha...

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Main Authors: Flonia Levy-Adam, Sari Feld, Edith Suss-Toby, Israel Vlodavsky, Neta Ilan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2405934?pdf=render