A helping hand from proteoglycans
A helping hand from proteoglycans
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蛋白多糖的帮助
DOI:
10.1016/0960-9822(91)90296-9
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发表时间:
1991
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影响因子:
9.2
通讯作者:
J. Massagué
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作者:
J. Massagué
Growth factors are secreted polypeptides that guide cell proliferation, differentiation and organization in developing tissues. The central event in the action of growth factors is their binding to signal-transducing receptors on the plasma membrane of target cells. This interaction is highly regulated and diversified; a single growth factor may exist in various isoforms that bind to multiple receptor subtypes each with distinctive affinity and signaling properties. Context-specific and cellspecific expression patterns of factors and receptors determine their availability to each other. The system is further regulated by the ability of growth factors to interact with certain binding molecules that are functionally distinct from the signaling receptors. Some of these molecules are circulating proteins that participate in growth factor transport or clearance. Others include a newly identified series of cell-surface and pericellular molecules that bind growth factors, such as basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and transforming growth factor-] 3 (TGF-[3), and apparently regulate their access to signaling receptors. The particular interest of these binding components lies not only in their biological properties but also in the fact that they are proteoglycans, which have not usually ranked high in the pecking order of molecules of interest to cell biologists.Proteoglycans are highly glycosylated proteins that carry sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) as the principal carbohydrate chains and are abundant components of cartilage, bone and interstitial tissue matrices where they play important structural roles. Much less is known about the structure and role of various low-abundance proteoglycans that are found in cell membranes and in pericellular matrices. A recent report byYayon et al.,[1], however, represents significant progress in this area in demonstrating that certain cell-surface proteoglycans are indispens-
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
LEE, PL;JOHNSON, DE;WILLIAMS, LT
通讯作者:
WILLIAMS, LT
DOI:
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发表时间:
1989
期刊:
The Journal of biological chemistry
影响因子:
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作者:
Cheifetz,S;Massagué,J
通讯作者:
Massagué,J