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==Crystal structure of the N-terminal fragment (28-126) of the human hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor, trigonal crystal form==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[3hmt]] is a 2 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens Homo sapiens]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=3HMT OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=3HMT FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 2&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=3hmt FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=3hmt OCA], [https://pdbe.org/3hmt PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=3hmt RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/3hmt PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=3hmt ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Disease ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/HGF_HUMAN HGF_HUMAN] Defects in HGF are the cause of deafness autosomal recessive type 39 (DFNB39) [MIM:[https://omim.org/entry/608265 608265]. A form of profound prelingual sensorineural hearing loss. Sensorineural deafness results from damage to the neural receptors of the inner ear, the nerve pathways to the brain, or the area of the brain that receives sound information.<ref>PMID:19576567</ref> 
== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/HGF_HUMAN HGF_HUMAN] Potent mitogen for mature parenchymal hepatocyte cells, seems to be a hepatotrophic factor, and acts as a growth factor for a broad spectrum of tissues and cell types. Activating ligand for the receptor tyrosine kinase MET by binding to it and promoting its dimerization.<ref>PMID:15167892</ref> <ref>PMID:20624990</ref> 
== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is an activating ligand of the Met receptor tyrosine kinase, whose activity is essential for normal tissue development and organ regeneration but abnormal activation of Met has been implicated in growth, invasion, and metastasis of many types of solid tumors. HGF has two natural splice variants, NK1 and NK2, which contain the N-terminal domain (N) and the first kringle (K1) or the first two kringle domains of HGF. NK1, which is a Met agonist, forms a head-to-tail dimer complex in crystal structures and mutations in the NK1 dimer interface convert NK1 to a Met antagonist. In contrast, NK2 is a Met antagonist, capable of inhibiting HGF's activity in cell proliferation without clear mechanism. Here we report the crystal structure of NK2, which forms a "closed" monomeric conformation through interdomain interactions between the N- domain and the second kringle domain (K2). Mutations that were designed to open up the NK2 closed conformation by disrupting the N/K2 interface convert NK2 from a Met antagonist to an agonist. Remarkably, this mutated NK2 agonist can be converted back to an antagonist by a mutation that disrupts the NK1/NK1 dimer interface. These results reveal the molecular determinants that regulate the agonist/antagonist properties of HGF NK2 and provide critical insights into the dimerization mechanism that regulates the Met receptor activation by HGF.

Structural basis for agonism and antagonism of hepatocyte growth factor.,Tolbert WD, Daugherty-Holtrop J, Gherardi E, Vande Woude G, Xu HE Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jul 27;107(30):13264-9. Epub 2010 Jul 12. PMID:20624990<ref>PMID:20624990</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Hepatocyte growth factor|Hepatocyte growth factor]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Homo sapiens]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Tolbert WD]]