Biology:Pleiotrophin

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Short description: Protein in humans


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Pleiotrophin (PTN) also known as heparin-binding brain mitogen (HBBM) or heparin-binding growth factor 8 (HBGF-8) or neurite growth-promoting factor 1 (NEGF1) or heparin affinity regulatory peptide (HARP) or heparin binding growth associated molecule (HB-GAM) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PTN gene.[1] Pleiotrophin 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.

Function

Pleiotrophin was initially recognized as a neurite outgrowth-promoting factor present in rat brain around birth[2] and as a mitogen toward fibroblasts isolated from bovine uterus tissue.[3] Together with midkine these growth-factors constitute a family of (developmentally regulated) secreted heparin-binding proteins[4] 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.[5] Pleiotrophin is also expressed by several tumor cells and is thought to be involved in tumor angiogenesis.[6] In the adult central nervous system, pleiotrophin is expressed in an activity-dependent manner in the hippocampus[7][8] where it can suppress long term potentiation induction.[9] Pleiotrophin expression is low in other areas of the adult brain, but it can be induced by ischemic insults.[10][11] or targeted neuronal damaged in the entorhinal cortex or in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Clinical significance

Pleiotrophin binds to cell-surface nucleolin as a low affinity receptor. This binding can inhibit HIV infection.[12]

References

  1. "Entrez Gene: PTN pleiotrophin (heparin binding growth factor 8, neurite growth-promoting factor 1)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=5764. 
  2. "Isolation and some characteristics of an adhesive factor of brain that enhances neurite outgrowth in central neurons". J. Biol. Chem. 262 (34): 16625–35. 1987. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)49302-7. PMID 3680268. http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/262/34/16625. 
  3. "Cloning and expression of a developmentally regulated protein that induces mitogenic and neurite outgrowth activity". Science 250 (4988): 1690–4. 1990. doi:10.1126/science.2270483. PMID 2270483. Bibcode1990Sci...250.1690L. 
  4. "Biochemical and mitogenic properties of the heparin-binding growth factor HARP". Prog. Growth Factor Res. 6 (1): 25–34. 1995. doi:10.1016/0955-2235(95)00002-X. PMID 8714367. 
  5. "Cellular distribution of the new growth factor pleiotrophin (HB-GAM) mRNA in developing and adult rat tissues". Anat. Embryol. 186 (4): 387–406. 1992. doi:10.1007/BF00185989. PMID 1416088. 
  6. "Midkine and pleiotrophin in neural development and cancer". Cancer Lett. 204 (2): 127–43. 2004. doi:10.1016/S0304-3835(03)00450-6. PMID 15013213. 
  7. "Developmentally regulated expression of pleiotrophin, a novel heparin binding growth factor, in the nervous system of the rat". Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res. 72 (1): 133–44. 1993. doi:10.1016/0165-3806(93)90166-8. PMID 8453763. 
  8. "Activity-induced enhancement of HB-GAM expression in rat hippocampal slices". NeuroReport 7 (10): 1670–4. 1996. doi:10.1097/00001756-199607080-00029. PMID 8904779. 
  9. "Role of heparin-binding growth-associated molecule (HB-GAM) in hippocampal LTP and spatial learning revealed by studies on overexpressing and knockout mice". Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 20 (2): 330–42. 2002. doi:10.1006/mcne.2002.1104. PMID 12093164. 
  10. "Induction of heparin-binding growth-associated molecule expression in reactive astrocytes following hippocampal neuronal injury". Neuroscience 68 (1): 57–64. 1995. doi:10.1016/0306-4522(95)00110-5. PMID 7477935. 
  11. "Upregulation of pleiotrophin gene expression in developing microvasculature, macrophages, and astrocytes after acute ischemic brain injury". J. Neurosci. 18 (10): 3699–707. 1998. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-10-03699.1998. PMID 9570800. 
  12. "Pleiotrophin inhibits HIV infection by binding the cell surface-expressed nucleolin". FEBS J. 272 (18): 4646–59. September 2005. doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04870.x. PMID 16156786. 

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