renin

renin
An acid protease released from the walls of afferent arterioles in the kidney when blood flow is reduced, plasma sodium levels drop, or plasma volume diminishes. Catalyses splitting of angiotensin I from angiotensinogen, an a2-globulin of plasma.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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