bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.18.147769; this version posted June 18, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Smooth muscle-specific MMP17 (MT4-MMP) defines the intestinal ECM niche 2 3 Mara Martín-Alonso1*, Håvard T. Lindholm1,# , Sharif Iqbal2,3,#, Pia Vornewald1#, Sigrid Hoel1, 4 Mirjam J. Damen4, A.F.Maarten Altelaar4, Pekka Katajisto2,3,5, Alicia G. Arroyo6,7, Menno J. 5 Oudhoff1* 6 7 1CEMIR – Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Department of Clinical and Molecular 8 Medicine, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, 9 Norway 10 2Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Finland 11 3Molecular and Integrative Bioscience Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and 12 Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 13 4Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The 14 Netherlands 15 5Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 16 6Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CIB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain 17 7Vascular Pathophysiology Area, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares 18 (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.CNIC, Madrid, Spain 19 20 #These authors contributed equally to this work 21 *corresponding authors, e-mail:
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