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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
42
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-10-13
pubmed:abstractText
Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) regulate the development and growth of the blood and lymphatic vascular systems. Of the three VEGF receptors (VEGFR), VEGFR-1 and -2 are expressed on blood vessels; VEGFR-2 is found also on lymphatic vessels. VEGFR-3 is expressed mainly on lymphatic vessels but it is also up-regulated in tumor angiogenesis. Although VEGFR-3 is essential for proper lymphatic development, its signal transduction mechanisms are still incompletely understood. Trans-phosphorylation of activated, dimerized receptor tyrosine kinases is known to be critical for the regulation of kinase activity and for receptor interaction with signal transduction molecules. In this study, we have identified five tyrosyl phosphorylation sites in the VEGFR-3 carboxyl-terminal tail. These sites were used both in VEGFR-3 overexpressed in 293 cells and when the endogenous VEGFR-3 was activated in lymphatic endothelial cells. Interestingly, VEGF-C stimulation of lymphatic endothelial cells also induced the formation of VEGFR-3/VEGFR-2 heterodimers, in which VEGFR-3 was phosphorylated only at three of the five sites while the two most carboxyl-terminal tyrosine residues appeared not to be accessible for the VEGFR-2 kinase. Our data suggest that the carboxyl-terminal tail of VEGFR-3 provides important regulatory tyrosine phosphorylation sites with potential signal transduction capacity and that these sites are differentially used in ligand-induced homo- and heterodimeric receptor complexes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
278
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
40973-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Dimerization, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Immunoblotting, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Neovascularization, Pathologic, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Swine, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Tyrosine, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Up-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2, pubmed-meshheading:12881528-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Ligand-induced vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) heterodimerization with VEGFR-2 in primary lymphatic endothelial cells regulates tyrosine phosphorylation sites.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 20, S-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't