Placental growth factor

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Placental growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor-related protein

PDB rendering based on 1rv6.

Available structures: 1rv6

Identifiers

Symbol(s)

PGF; PLGF; PlGF-2

External IDs

OMIM: 601121 MGI: 105095 HomoloGene: 1978

Gene ontology
Molecular Function:	• growth factor activity • heparin binding
Cellular Component:	• membrane
Biological Process:	• regulation of progression through cell cycle • angiogenesis • ureteric bud branching • signal transduction • cell-cell signaling • multicellular organismal development • cell proliferation • positive regulation of cell proliferation • cell differentiation

RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs

Human

Mouse

Refseq

NM_002632 (mRNA)
NP_002623 (protein)

NM_008827 (mRNA)
NP_032853 (protein)

Location

Chr 14: 74.48 - 74.49 Mb

Chr 12: 86.06 - 86.07 Mb

Pubmed search

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Placental growth factor or vascular endothelial growth factor-related protein is a member of the VEGF sub-family. PGF is its human gene.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Entrez Gene: PGF placental growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor-related protein.

[edit] Further reading

Luttun A, Tjwa M, Carmeliet P (2003). "Placental growth factor (PlGF) and its receptor Flt-1 (VEGFR-1): novel therapeutic targets for angiogenic disorders.". Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 979: 80-93. PMID 12543719.
Maglione D, Guerriero V, Viglietto G, et al. (1991). "Isolation of a human placenta cDNA coding for a protein related to the vascular permeability factor.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88 (20): 9267-71. PMID 1924389.
Maglione D, Guerriero V, Viglietto G, et al. (1993). "Two alternative mRNAs coding for the angiogenic factor, placenta growth factor (PlGF), are transcribed from a single gene of chromosome 14.". Oncogene 8 (4): 925-31. PMID 7681160.
Park JE, Chen HH, Winer J, et al. (1994). "Placenta growth factor. Potentiation of vascular endothelial growth factor bioactivity, in vitro and in vivo, and high affinity binding to Flt-1 but not to Flk-1/KDR.". J. Biol. Chem. 269 (41): 25646-54. PMID 7929268.
Hauser S, Weich HA (1994). "A heparin-binding form of placenta growth factor (PlGF-2) is expressed in human umbilical vein endothelial cells and in placenta.". Growth Factors 9 (4): 259-68. PMID 8148155.
Mattei MG, Borg JP, Rosnet O, et al. (1996). "Assignment of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and placenta growth factor (PLGF) genes to human chromosome 6p12-p21 and 14q24-q31 regions, respectively.". Genomics 32 (1): 168-9. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0098. PMID 8786112.
Ziche M, Maglione D, Ribatti D, et al. (1997). "Placenta growth factor-1 is chemotactic, mitogenic, and angiogenic.". Lab. Invest. 76 (4): 517-31. PMID 9111514.
Vuorela P, Hatva E, Lymboussaki A, et al. (1997). "Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and placenta growth factor in human placenta.". Biol. Reprod. 56 (2): 489-94. PMID 9116151.
Cao Y, Ji WR, Qi P, et al. (1997). "Placenta growth factor: identification and characterization of a novel isoform generated by RNA alternative splicing.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 235 (3): 493-8. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1997.6813. PMID 9207183.
Davis-Smyth T, Presta LG, Ferrara N (1998). "Mapping the charged residues in the second immunoglobulin-like domain of the vascular endothelial growth factor/placenta growth factor receptor Flt-1 required for binding and structural stability.". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (6): 3216-22. PMID 9452434.
Landgren E, Schiller P, Cao Y, Claesson-Welsh L (1998). "Placenta growth factor stimulates MAP kinase and mitogenicity but not phospholipase C-gamma and migration of endothelial cells expressing Flt 1.". Oncogene 16 (3): 359-67. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1201545. PMID 9467961.
Gluzman-Poltorak Z, Cohen T, Herzog Y, Neufeld G (2000). "Neuropilin-2 is a receptor for the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) forms VEGF-145 and VEGF-165 [corrected].". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (24): 18040-5. doi:10.1074/jbc.M909259199. PMID 10748121.
Renedo M, Arce I, Montgomery K, et al. (2000). "A sequence-ready physical map of the region containing the human natural killer gene complex on chromosome 12p12.3-p13.2.". Genomics 65 (2): 129-36. doi:10.1006/geno.2000.6163. PMID 10783260.
Maglione D, Battisti M, Tucci M (2000). "Recombinant production of PIGF-1 and its activity in animal models.". Farmaco 55 (3): 165-7. PMID 10919072.
Roberts-Clark DJ, Smith AJ (2000). "Angiogenic growth factors in human dentine matrix.". Arch. Oral Biol. 45 (11): 1013-6. PMID 11000388.
Iyer S, Leonidas DD, Swaminathan GJ, et al. (2001). "The crystal structure of human placenta growth factor-1 (PlGF-1), an angiogenic protein, at 2.0 A resolution.". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (15): 12153-61. doi:10.1074/jbc.M008055200. PMID 11069911.
Li XF, Charnock-Jones DS, Zhang E, et al. (2001). "Angiogenic growth factor messenger ribonucleic acids in uterine natural killer cells.". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 86 (4): 1823-34. PMID 11297624.
Su YN, Hsu JJ, Lee CN, et al. (2002). "Raised maternal serum placenta growth factor concentration during the second trimester is associated with Down syndrome.". Prenat. Diagn. 22 (1): 8-12. PMID 11810642.
Angelucci C, Lama G, Iacopino F, et al. (2002). "Effect of placenta growth factor-1 on proliferation and release of nitric oxide, cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP in human epithelial cells expressing the FLT-1 receptor.". Growth Factors 19 (3): 193-206. PMID 11811792.
Mamluk R, Gechtman Z, Kutcher ME, et al. (2002). "Neuropilin-1 binds vascular endothelial growth factor 165, placenta growth factor-2, and heparin via its b1b2 domain.". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (27): 24818-25. doi:10.1074/jbc.M200730200. PMID 11986311.