Life and Science (Jul 2020)

Epidermal Growth Factor-Like Domain-8 (EGFL8) in Mammals: The Story so far

  • Fazli Subhan,
  • Muhammad Naeem,
  • Wasim Sajjad,
  • Liaqat Ali,
  • Isfahan Tauseef,
  • Syed Kashif Haleem

DOI
https://doi.org/10.37185/LnS.1.1.59
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 3
pp. 3 – 3

Abstract

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Epidermal growth factor-like domain-8 (EGFL8) also known as vascular endothelial statin-2 (VE-statin-2). It was identified by using retroviral gene entrapment vectors, expressed in endothelial cells. It is located on chromosome6inhumansandchromosome17inthemouse. EGFL8codesaproteinof293aminoacidswithan amino-terminal signal peptide and has two EGF-like domains. EGFL8 plays a very important regulatory role in thymopoiesis, cell migration and invasion through the modulation of Notch signaling. Although the signaling regulatory factors of EGFL8 need to be explored but recent scientific advances have revealed some important aspect of its regulation. This review summarizes the current knowledge about all aspects of EGFL8 since its discovery.

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