EPH receptor A1 (ephrin type-A receptor 1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EPHA1 gene.[1][2]
This gene belongs to the ephrin receptor subfamily of the protein-tyrosine kinase family. EPH and EPH-related receptors have been implicated in mediating developmental events, particularly in the nervous system. Receptors in the EPH subfamily typically have a single kinase domain and an extracellular region containing a Cys-rich domain and 2 fibronectin type III repeats. The ephrin receptors are divided into 2 groups based on the similarity of their extracellular domain sequences and their affinities for binding ephrin-A and ephrin-B ligands. This gene is expressed in some human cancer cell lines and has been implicated in carcinogenesis.[2]
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- Flanagan JG, Vanderhaeghen P (1998). "The ephrins and Eph receptors in neural development.". Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 21: 309–45. doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.21.1.309. PMID 9530499.
- Zhou R (1998). "The Eph family receptors and ligands.". Pharmacol. Ther. 77 (3): 151–81. PMID 9576626.
- Holder N, Klein R (1999). "Eph receptors and ephrins: effectors of morphogenesis.". Development 126 (10): 2033–44. PMID 10207129.
- Wilkinson DG (2000). "Eph receptors and ephrins: regulators of guidance and assembly.". Int. Rev. Cytol. 196: 177–244. PMID 10730216.
- Xu Q, Mellitzer G, Wilkinson DG (2001). "Roles of Eph receptors and ephrins in segmental patterning.". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 355 (1399): 993–1002. doi:10.1098/rstb.2000.0635. PMID 11128993.
- Wilkinson DG (2001). "Multiple roles of EPH receptors and ephrins in neural development.". Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2 (3): 155–64. PMID 11256076.
- Hirai H, Maru Y, Hagiwara K, et al. (1988). "A novel putative tyrosine kinase receptor encoded by the eph gene.". Science 238 (4834): 1717–20. PMID 2825356.
- Gale NW, Holland SJ, Valenzuela DM, et al. (1996). "Eph receptors and ligands comprise two major specificity subclasses and are reciprocally compartmentalized during embryogenesis.". Neuron 17 (1): 9–19. PMID 8755474.
- Owshalimpur D, Kelley MJ (1999). "Genomic structure of the EPHA1 receptor tyrosine kinase gene.". Mol. Cell. Probes 13 (3): 169–73. doi:10.1006/mcpr.1999.0228. PMID 10369740.
- Kalo MS, Pasquale EB. Signal transfer by eph receptors. 298. pp. 1–9. PMID 10502115.
- Coulthard MG, Lickliter JD, Subanesan N, et al. (2002). "Characterization of the Epha1 receptor tyrosine kinase: expression in epithelial tissues.". Growth Factors 18 (4): 303–17. PMID 11519828.
- Hillier LW, Fulton RS, Fulton LA, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7.". Nature 424 (6945): 157–64. doi:10.1038/nature01782. PMID 12853948.
- Brandenberger R, Wei H, Zhang S, et al. (2005). "Transcriptome characterization elucidates signaling networks that control human ES cell growth and differentiation.". Nat. Biotechnol. 22 (6): 707–16. doi:10.1038/nbt971. PMID 15146197.
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1x5a: The solution structure of the second fibronectin type III domain of mouse Ephrin type-A receptor 1
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