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Insufficiency of pro-heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor shedding enhances hypoxic cell death in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts via the activation of caspase-3 and c-Jun N-terminal kinase.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 1 May 2009
Uetani Teruyoshi, Nakayama Hironao, Okayama Hideki, Okura Takafumi, Higaki Jitsuo, Inoue Hirofumi, Higashiyama Shigeki
Abstract excerpt
Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF) is a cardiogenic and cardiohypertrophic growth factor. ProHB-EGF, a product of the Hb-egf gene and the precursor of HB-EGF, is anchored to the plasma membrane. Its ectodomain region is shed by a disintegrin and metalloproteases (ADAMs) when activated by various stimulations. It has been reported that an uncleavable mutant of Hb-egf, uc-Hb-egf,...
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