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Conversion of cysteine to serine residues alters the activity, stability, and heparin dependence of acidic fibroblast growth factor.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 25 Mar 1991
Ortega S, Schaeffer M T, Soderman D, DiSalvo J, Linemeyer D L, Gimenez-Gallego G, Thomas K A
Abstract excerpt
Acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) is a broad spectrum mitogen that is stabilized by complexation with heparin and heparan proteoglycans. The monomeric human protein contains 3 reduced cysteine residues of unknown function, the first 2 of which are conserved among all seven known fibroblast growth factors. The influence of these free sulfhydryl groups on the level, stability, and heparin dependence of the...
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