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Tartrate-Resistant Acid Phosphatase  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • One of several acid phosphatases in humans, other mammals, plants, and a few prokaryotes. The protein fold of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) resembles that of the catalytic domain of plant purple acid phosphatase and other serine/threonine-protein phosphatases that also contain a metallophosphoesterase domain. One gene produces the various forms which include purple acid phosphatases from spleen and other tissues. Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase is a biomarker for pathological states in which it is over-expressed. Such conditions include GAUCHER DISEASE; HODGKIN DISEASE; BONE RESORPTION; and NEOPLASM METASTASIS.

Synonym(s)

  • TRAcP

In other languages

  • French

  • Phosphatase acide résistante à l'acide tartrique
  • Phosphatase acide résistante au tartrate
  • Phosphatase acide tartrate résistante
  • Phosphatase acide tartrate-résistante
  • TRAcP

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