A precursor form of vascular endothelial growth factor arises by initiation from an upstream in-frame CUG codon

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 359, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 219-226

  Tee, M K ^a   Jaffe, R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Proteolysis; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE; TUMORS;

ANGIOGENESIS;

ONCOLOGY;

ADENOSINE; CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; URACIL; VASCULOTROPIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; ISOPROTEIN; LYMPHOKINE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART; LUNG; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OVARY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPLEEN; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UMBILICAL VEIN; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; START CODON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CODON, INITIATOR; COS CELLS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFECTION; TRANSLATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035477072     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3590219     Document Type: Article

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