Gene description for CTSA
Gene name	cathepsin A
Gene symbol	CTSA
Other names/aliases	GLB2 GSL NGBE PPCA PPGB
Species	Homo sapiens
Experiment description of studies that identified CTSA in Embryonic kidney cells
1 Experiment ID 2839 Identified molecule protein Extracellular vesicle type Extracellular vesicles MISEV Small EVs Identification method Mass spectrometry PubMed ID 35058437    Organism Homo sapiens Experiment description Circulating ACE2-expressing extracellular vesicles block broad strains of SARS-CoV-2 Authors El-Shennawy L, Hoffmann AD, Dashzeveg NK, McAndrews KM, Mehl PJ, Cornish D, Yu Z, Tokars VL, Nicolaescu V, Tomatsidou A, Mao C, Felicelli CJ, Tsai CF, Ostiguin C, Jia Y, Li L, Furlong K, Wysocki J, Luo X, Ruivo CF, Batlle D, Hope TJ, Shen Y, Chae YK, Zhang H, LeBleu VS, Shi T, Swaminathan S, Luo Y, Missiakas D, Randall GC, Demonbreun AR, Ison MG, Kalluri R, Fang D, Liu H. Journal name Nat Commun Publication year 2022 Sample Embryonic kidney cells Sample name HEK293 Isolation/purification methods Differential centrifugation Ultracentrifugation Flotation density - Molecules identified in the study Protein Methods used in the study Western blotting Mass spectrometry EV-TRACK -