Pleiotrophin

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Pleiotrophin or Neurite Growth-promoting Factor 1 (NEGF1), also called Heparin Affin Regulatory Peptide (HARP) or Heparin Binding Growth associated molecule (HB-GAM) is an 18-kDa growth factor that has a high affinity for heparin. It is structurally related to midkine and retinoic acid induced heparin-binding protein.

Pleiotrophin
Identifiers
Symbol PTN NEGF1
HUGO 9630
Entrez 5764
OMIM 162095
RefSeq NM_002825
UniProt P21246
Other data
Locus Chr. 7 q33

Pleiotrophin was initially recognized as a neurite outgrowth-promoting factor present in rat brain around birth [1] and as a mitogen toward fibroblasts isolated from bovine uterus tissue. [2] Together with midkine these growth-factors constitute a family of (developmentally regulated) secreted heparin-binding proteins (Laaroubi et al., 1995) now known as the Neurite Growth-promoting Factor (NEGF) family. During embryonic and early postnatal development, Pleiotrophin is expressed in the central and peripheral nervous system and also in several non-neural tissues, notably lung, kidney, gut and bone (Vanderwinden et al., 1992). Pleiotrophin is also expressed by several tumor cells and is thought to be involved in tumor angiogenesis (Kadomatsu and Muramatsu, 2004). In the adult central nervous system Pleiotrophin is expressed in an activity-dependent manner in the hippocampus (Wanaka et al., 1993; Lauri et al., 1996), where it can suppress long term potentiation induction (Pavlov et al., 2002). Pleiotrophin expression is low in other areas of the adult brain, but it can be induced by ischemic insults (Takeda et al., 1995; Yeh et al., 1998).

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  1. ^ Rauvala H. & Pihlaskari R. (1995) "Isolation and some characteristics of an adhesive factor of brain that enhances neurite outgrowth in central neurons." in J. Biol. Chem. Volume 262, pages 262(34):16625-35. Entrez PubMed 3680268
  2. ^ Li YS, Milner PG, Chauhan AK, Watson MA, Hoffman RM, Kodner CM, Milbrandt J and Deuel TF. (1992) "Cloning and expression of a developmentally regulated protein that induces mitogenic and neurite outgrowth activity." in Science Volume 250, pages 1690-4. Entrez PubMed 2270483

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