'''Endothelin converting enzyme 1''', also known as '''ECE1''', is a human[[enzyme]] which in humans is encoded by the ''ECE1'' [[gene]].<ref name="entrez">{{cite web | title = Entrez Gene: ECE1 endothelin converting enzyme 1| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1889| accessdate = }}</ref><ref name="pmid7805846">{{cite journal | author = Schmidt M, Kröger B, Jacob E, Seulberger H, Subkowski T, Otter R, Meyer T, Schmalzing G, Hillen H | title = Molecular characterization of human and bovine endothelin converting enzyme (ECE-1) | journal = FEBS Lett. | volume = 356 | issue = 2-3 | pages = 238–43 | year = 1994 | month = December | pmid = 7805846 | doi = | url = http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0014-5793(94)01277-6 | issn = }}</ref><ref name="pmid7864876">{{cite journal | author = Shimada K, Matsushita Y, Wakabayashi K, Takahashi M, Matsubara A, Iijima Y, Tanzawa K | title = Cloning and functional expression of human endothelin-converting enzyme cDNA | journal = Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. | volume = 207 | issue = 2 | pages = 807–12 | year = 1995 | month = February | pmid = 7864876 | doi = 10.1006/bbrc.1995.1258 | url = | issn = }}</ref>
== Function ==
| summary_text = Endothelin-converting enzyme-1 is involved in the proteolytic processing of endothelin-1 (EDN1;[[endothelin MIM 1312401|EDN1]]), -2 (EDN2; MIM[[endothelin 1312412|EDN2]]), and -3 (EDN3;[[endothelin MIM 1312423|EDN3]]) to biologically active peptides.[supplied by OMIM]<ref name="entrez">{{cite web | title = Entrez Gene: ECE1 endothelin converting enzyme 1| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1889| accessdate = }}</ref>▼
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▲| summary_text = Endothelin-converting enzyme-1 is involved in the proteolytic processing of endothelin-1 (EDN1; MIM 131240), -2 (EDN2; MIM 131241), and -3 (EDN3; MIM 131242) to biologically active peptides.[supplied by OMIM]<ref name="entrez">{{cite web | title = Entrez Gene: ECE1 endothelin converting enzyme 1| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1889| accessdate = }}</ref>
