Fibroblast growth factors, their receptors and signaling.
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...FGFs have at least 18 members 8-10 with biological functions by interaction with its conjugate receptor, FGFRs.(11,12) Indeed, it has been well demonstrated that FGF signaling participates in gonad organogenesis....
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...Luteinizing hormone (LH), which is released from the pituitary gland, induces the Leydig cells to produce testosterone, induce the development of secondary sex characteristics, and promote sexual maturation in puberty.7 FGFs have at least 18 members 8-10 with biological functions by interaction with its conjugate receptor, FGFRs.11,12 Indeed, it has been well demonstrated that FGF signaling participates in gonad organogenesis.8,13-17 Until now, four FGFRs were identified in the human genome participating in gonad functional regulations: FGFR1 maintains undifferentiated spermatogonia in mice; FGFR2 participates in sex determination and testis cord formation; FGFR3 is proven to be the pre-/spermatogonia maker associated with spermatogonial survival; and FGFR4 is involved in myogenesis and muscle regeneration with an expression level in the seminiferous epithelium.18-22 In addition to genomic differences, mRNA of FGFRs could undergo alternative splicing to increase the protein diversity of FGFRs....
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...Thus, different FGFs could interact with their specific FGFRs to pass different signal into cells.(11,23-25) In fact, FGFFGFR signaling has been demonstrated to participate in mitogenesis, migration, embryogenesis, differentiation, tumorigenesis, and angiogenesis....
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...One way these recruited target proteins may be localized to the activated receptor is through the interaction between their Src-homology 2 (SH2) domains and specific phosphotyrosine residues on the activated receptor (Pawson 1995)....
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...Phosphorylated tyrosine residues, in turn, recruit other signaling molecules to the activated receptors and propagate the signal through many possible transduction pathways (Pawson 1995)....
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...†From Ornitz et al. (1996), except where stated; ‡From Koga et al. (1995); §From Miralles et al. (1999); ¶From Xu et al. (1999). topologically identical to interleukin-1β (IL-1β) (Zhu et al. 1991), with which some members also share the feature of secretion by an endoplasmic reticulum…...
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...Mutation of all four cysteines to serines results in a protein with the same secondary structure and equally mitogenic for 3T3 cells as the wild-type FGF-2 (Foxet al. 1988), suggesting that the formation of disulfide bridges is not important for the secondary structure and mitogenic activity of…...
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...Ornitz et al. (1996) determined the specificity of different FGFs for different receptor isoforms by overexpressing these isoforms in Baf3 cells, which do not normally express FGFRs, and assaying for [3H]thymidine incorporation in these cells following treatment with different FGFs (see Table 2)....
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...1, IIIb 100 60 34 16 4 5 6 4 4 1, IIIc 100 104 0 102 59 55 0 1 21 2, IIIb 100 9 45 15 5 5 81 4 7 2, IIIc 100 64 4 94 25 61 2.5 16 89 3, IIIb 100 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 42 3, IIIc 100 107 1 69 12 9 1 41 96 4 100 113 6 108 7 79 2 76 75 Modified from Ornitz et al. (1996)....
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...Defining features of the FGF family are a strong affinity for heparin and HLGAGs (Burgess & Maciag 1989), as well as a central core of 140 amino acids that is highly homologous between different family members....
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