Protein Information

Name elastin
Synonyms ELN; WS; WBS; Elastin; Elastin precursor; SVAS; Tropoelastin; Elastins…

Compound Information

Name potassium thiocyanate
CAS potassium thiocyanate

Reference List

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8875819 Lillie MA, Gosline JM: Swelling and viscoelastic properties of osmotically stressed elastin. . Biopolymers. 1996 Nov;39(5):641-52.

The viscoelastic behavior of elastin in the superswelling agents [potassium thiocyanate (KSCN), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), and ethylene glycol (EG)] depended on the solute and was independent of swelling behavior.
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12012348 Lillie MA, Gosline JM: Effects of lipids on elastin's viscoelastic properties. Biopolymers. 2002 Jul 15;64(3):127-38.

Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) was used as a model lipid to identify the molecular basis of possible lipid-induced changes in the viscoelastic behavior of arterial elastin.
Viscoelastic behavior was also measured in sucrose and potassium thiocyanate solutions to identify the effects of swelling and of changes in network composition exclusive of any direct SDS effects.
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1683874 Upchurch HF, Conway E, Patterson MK Jr, Maxwell MD: Localization of cellular transglutaminase on the extracellular matrix after wounding: characteristics of the matrix bound enzyme. J Cell Physiol. 1991 Dec;149(3):375-82.


ECM-bound TGase was released by 2 M potassium thiocyanate (KSCN) treatment but was not released by treatment with a variety of amino acids, salts, reducing agents, glycerol, or other chaotropic agents.
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