Human Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Gene Encodes Four Polypeptides: Three Initiate Translation from Non-AUG Codons

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1989 Jun 1

PMID 2726761

Citations 126

Authors

R Z Florkiewicz

A Sommer

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Abstract

Human basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is an angiogenic polypeptide mitogen present in a wide variety of mesoderm- and neuroectoderm-derived tissues. bFGF cDNA and genomic clones predict a 17.8-kDa (155-amino acid) gene product based on the presence of a single putative translational initiator ATG codon. However, a bFGF protein isolated from human placenta contains two additional amino acids NH2-terminal to the predicted initiator methionine. We report here that the human cell line SK-HEP-1 coexpresses four molecular forms (17.8, 22.5, 23.1, and 24.2 kDa) of bFGF. The 17.8-kDa bFGF protein is translationally initiated at the previously predicted methionine (AUG) codon, whereas the 22.5-, 23.1-, and 24.2-kDa proteins initiate at unusual non-AUG codons. The higher molecular weight forms are colinear NH2-terminal extensions of the 18-kDa bFGF.

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