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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 22, Pages 19166-19171Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M100097200
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Human vascular endothelial growth factor-D (VEGF-D) binds and activates VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3, receptors expressed on vascular and lymphatic endothelial cells. As VEGFR-2 signals for angiogenesis and VEGFR-3 is thought to signal for lymphangiogenesis, it was proposed that VEGF-D stimulates growth of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels into regions of embryos and tumors. Here we report the unexpected finding that mouse VEGF-D fails to bind mouse VEGFR-2 but binds and cross-links VEGFR-3 as demonstrated by biosensor analysis with immobilized receptor domains and bioassays of VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3 cross-linking. Mutation of amino acids in mouse VEGF-D to those in the human homologue indicated that residues important for the VEGFR-2 interaction are clustered at, or are near, the predicted receptor-binding surface. Coordinated expression of VEGF-D and VEGFR-3 in mouse embryos was detected in the developing skin where the VEGF-D gene was expressed in a layer of cells beneath the developing epidermis and VEGFR-3 was localized on a network of vessels immediately beneath the VEGF-D-positive cells. This suggests that VEGF-D and VEGFR-3 may play a role in establishing vessels of the skin by a paracrine mechanism. Our study of receptor specificity suggests that VEGF-D may have different biological functions in mouse and man.
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