Connective tissue growth factor: Structure-function relationships of a mosaic, multifunctional protein

Growth Factors

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 80-91

  de Winter, Patricia ^a   Leoni, Patricia ^a   Abraham, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCN family; CTGF; Growth factors; Modular domains

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGENASE 3; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLIN A; DECORIN; ELASTASE; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MATRILYSIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN; PLASMIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; STROMELYSIN; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TISSUE REPAIR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; CELLS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 42549131051     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: 10292292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08977190802025602     Document Type: Article

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