High-affinity NGF binding requires coexpression of the trk proto-oncogene and the low-affinity NGF receptor.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Nerve growth factor (NGF) interacts with two different low-affinity receptors that can be distinguished by affinity crosslinking. Reconstitution experiments by membrane fusion and transient transfection into heterologous cells indicate that high-affinity NGF binding requires coexpression and binding to both the low-affinity NGF receptor and the tyrosine kinase trk gene product. These studies reveal a new growth factor receptor-mediated mechanism of cellular differentiation involving trk and the low-affinity NGF receptor.
Medical subject headings
- Nerve Growth Factors
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogenes
- Receptors, Cell Surface