The Pharmacogenetic Footprint of ACE Inhibition: A Population-Based Metabolomics Study.

Angiotensin-I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are an important class of antihypertensives whose action on the human organism is still not fully understood. Although it is known that ACE especially cleaves COOH-terminal dipeptides from active polypeptides, the whole range of substrates and product...

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Main Authors: Elisabeth Altmaier, Cristina Menni, Margit Heier, Christa Meisinger, Barbara Thorand, Jan Quell, Michael Kobl, Werner Römisch-Margl, Ana M Valdes, Massimo Mangino, Melanie Waldenberger, Konstantin Strauch, Thomas Illig, Jerzy Adamski, Tim Spector, Christian Gieger, Karsten Suhre, Gabi Kastenmüller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4847917?pdf=render