Human betacellulin, a member of the EGF family dominantly expressed in pancreas and small intestine, is fully active in a monomeric form

Growth Factors

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 181-191

  Seno, Masaharu ^a   Tada, Hiroko ^a   Kosaka, Megumi ^a   Sasada, Reiko ^b   Igarash, Koichi ^b   Shing, Yuen ^c   Folkman, Judah ^c   Ueda, Masakazu ^d   Yamada, Hidenori ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED   (Japan)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Betacellulin; Growth inhibition; Mass spectrometric analysis; Mitogenic activity; Recombinant expression; Released form; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

BETACELLULIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOGENICITY; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029915504     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08977199609003220     Document Type: Article

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