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  • Title: Properties and structure-function relationship of HGF-SF.
    Author: Gherardi E, Sharpe M, Lane K.
    Journal: EXS; 1993; 65():31-48. PubMed ID: 8422548.
    Abstract:
    HGF-SF is a cytokine independently isolated and characterized for its activities as a mitogen for liver cells in culture (hepatocyte growth factor, HGF) and as a factor which enhances the movement and induces the dissociation of epithelial colonies (scatter factor, SF). The factor is composed of two subunits (A and B) with a M(r) of approximately 57 K and approximately 30 K produced by proteolytic cleavage of a polypeptide precursor. Based on the complete conservation of critical cysteine residues, the domain structure of HGF-SF appears to be remarkably similar to the domain structures of plasminogen, (a blood protease involved in fibrinolysis) and the HGF-like protein (the translation product of a gene recently isolated and which shares extensive sequence identity with HGF-SF). The A subunit of HGF-SF consists of an N-terminal domain, homologous to plasminogen preactivation peptide (PAP), followed by four kringle domains. The B subunit has the basic structure of a serine protease domain although HGF-SF has no protease activity due to replacement substitutions in two of the three residues of the catalytic site. Experiments with a truncated form of HGF-SF generated by alternative splicing and with a series of deletion and point mutants generated by site-directed mutagenesis, have established that both the N-terminal and the kringle domains of the A chain and the B chain are all required for biological activity. Loss of mitogenic activity in the HGF-SF mutants is always associated with loss of motogenic activity and vice versa. Thus, the protein engineering experiments confirm the hypothesis that the mitogenic and motogenic responses to HGF-SF diverge at the post-receptor level.
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