Alternative Names
Hepatopoietin-A; Scatter factor; SF; deafness; autosomal recessive 39; DFNB39; F-TCF; hepatocyte growth factor
Background
HGF, is a pleiotropic protein in the Plasminogen subfamily of S1 peptidases. Mouse HGF is secreted as an inactive 728 amino acid (aa) single chain propeptide. It is cleaved after the fourth Kringle domain by a serine protease to form bioactive disulfide-linked HGF with a 60/xa0kDa alpha /xa0and 30 kDa beta /xa0chain. HGF binds heparan-sulfate proteoglycans and the widely expressed receptor tyrosine kinase, HGF R/c-MET. HGF regulates epithelial morphogenesis by inducing cell scattering and branching tubulogenesis. /xa0It can also alter epithelium morphology by the induction of nectin‑1 alpha /xa0ectodomain shedding, an adhesion protein component of adherens junctions/xa0.
Note
For Research Use Only , Not for Diagnostic Use.