“…The ADAMTS genes have varying functions, including inhibition of angiogenesis (-TS-1, -TS-8) (Vazquez et al, 1999), cleavage of the matrix proteoglycans aggrecan, versican and brevican (-TS-1, -4, -5, -8 and -15)(AKA the 'aggrecanases') (Matthews et al, 2000;Collins-Racie et al, 2004;Porter et al, 2005), collagen processing (TS-2, -3 and -14) (Colige et al, 1995;Colige et al, 1997;Fernandes et al, 2001;Wang et al, 2004) and blood coagulation homeostasis (TS-13) (Zheng et al, 2001). The ADAMTS proteins are secreted proteases, some of which bind to the extracellular matrix (ECM), unlike the ADAMs proteases that are mostly transmembrane proteins.…”