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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Clin Pract Rheumatol. 2009 Jan;5(1):38–45. doi: 10.1038/ncprheum0961

Table 1.

The known substrates and inhibitors of the ADAMTS family of enzymes.

Enzyme (ADAMTS-) Alternative name Known substrate(s) Known inhibitor(s)
1 METH-1 Aggrecan, versican NA
2 PCINP Collagen I, II and III N-propeptides Papilin, chordin-derived peptides
3 KIAA0366 Procollagen II N-propeptide NA
4 Aggrecanase-1 Aggrecan, brevican, COMP, decorin, fibromodulin, versican TIMP-3, TIMP-1, TIMP-2, α2M, C-terminal portion of fibronectin
5 Aggrecanase-2, ADAMTS-11 Aggrecan TIMP-3, α2M
6 NA NA NA
7 ADAMTS-7B COMP, α2M α2M, GEP
8 METH-2 Aggrecan NA
9 KIAA1312 Aggrecan, versican NA
10 NA NA NA
12 NA Aggrecan, COMP, α2M α2M, GEP
13 vWFCP von Willebrand factor Thrombin
14 NA Procollagen I N-propeptide NA
15 NA Aggrecan NA
16 NA α2M NA
17 NA NA NA
18 NA NA NA
19 NA Aggrecan NA
20 NA Aggrecan NA

Abbreviations: α2M, α2-macroglobulin; ADAMTS, disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs; COMP, cartilage oligomeric matrix protein; GEP, granulin-epithelin precursor; NA, not applicable; TIMP, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases; vWFCP, von Willebrand factor cleaving protease.