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Under normal conditions, VAP-1 is mainly absent from the endothelial cell surface and is stored within intracellular granules, while on inflammation, it is rapidly translocated to the endothelial cell surface and facilitates the recruitment of leukocytes into the inflamed tissues together with other leukocyte adhesion molecules.
