Vascular endothelial growth factor B

Vascular endothelial growth factor B also known as VEGF-B is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the VEGF-B gene. VEGF-B is a growth factor that belongs to the vascular endothelial growth factor family, of which VEGF-A is the best-known member.

VEGFB
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 2C7W, 2VWE, 2XAC
Identifiers
Aliases	VEGFB, VEGFL, VRF, vascular endothelial growth factor B
External IDs	OMIM: 601398; MGI: 106199; HomoloGene: 87131; GeneCards: VEGFB; OMA:VEGFB - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human) Band 11q13.1 Start 64,234,584 bp End 64,239,264 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 19 (mouse) Band 19|19 A Start 6,959,841 bp End 6,965,019 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in apex of heart right auricle right coronary artery left coronary artery popliteal artery tibial arteries Descending thoracic aorta ascending aorta muscle of thigh muscle layer of sigmoid colon Top expressed in myocardium myocardium of ventricle right ventricle interventricular septum cardiac muscles muscle of thigh extraocular muscle cardiac muscle tissue of left ventricle digastric muscle plantaris muscle More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function heparin binding protein homodimerization activity protein binding protein heterodimerization activity chemoattractant activity growth factor activity vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 binding vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 binding vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 binding vascular endothelial growth factor receptor binding Cellular component membrane intracellular anatomical structure extracellular region platelet alpha granule lumen extracellular space Biological process negative regulation of neuron apoptotic process positive regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor signaling pathway positive regulation of protein kinase B signaling cardiac muscle contraction protein O-linked glycosylation platelet degranulation negative regulation of apoptotic process coronary vasculature development negative regulation of gene expression heart development positive regulation of vascular permeability positive regulation of vascular wound healing positive regulation of ERK1 and ERK2 cascade positive regulation of peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation positive regulation of cell division positive chemotaxis response to hypoxia angiogenesis positive regulation of endothelial cell proliferation positive regulation of angiogenesis vascular endothelial growth factor receptor signaling pathway induction of positive chemotaxis positive regulation of mast cell chemotaxis regulation of signaling receptor activity positive regulation of protein phosphorylation sprouting angiogenesis vascular endothelial growth factor signaling pathway Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 7423 22340 Ensembl ENSG00000173511 ENSMUSG00000024962 UniProt P49765 P49766 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_003377 NM_001243733 NM_001185164 NM_011697 RefSeq (protein) NP_001230662 NP_003368 NP_001172093 NP_035827 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 64.23 – 64.24 Mb Chr 19: 6.96 – 6.97 Mb PubMed search
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Function

In contrast to VEGF-A, VEGF-B plays a less pronounced role in the vascular system: Whereas VEGF-A is important for the formation of blood vessels, such as during development or in pathological conditions, VEGF-B seems to play a role only in the maintenance of newly formed blood vessels during pathological conditions. VEGF-B plays also an important role on several types of neurons. It is important for the protection of neurons in the retina and the cerebral cortex during stroke, and of motor neurons during motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

VEGF-B exerts its effects via the FLT1 receptor. But the role of co-receptor NRP in VEGF-B-mediated effects is still unclear.

VEGF-B has also been found to control endothelial uptake and transport of fatty acids in heart and skeletal muscle.

Interactions

Vascular endothelial growth factor B has been shown to interact with FLT1, NRP1 and NRP2.

Further reading

• Poesen K, Lambrechts D, Van Damme P, Dhondt J, Bender F, Frank N, et al. (October 2008). "Novel role for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor-1 and its ligand VEGF-B in motor neuron degeneration". The Journal of Neuroscience. 28 (42): 10451–10459. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1092-08.2008. PMC 6671326. PMID 18923022.
• Joukov V, Kaipainen A, Jeltsch M, Pajusola K, Olofsson B, Kumar V, et al. (November 1997). "Vascular endothelial growth factors VEGF-B and VEGF-C". Journal of Cellular Physiology. 173 (2): 211–215. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4652(199711)173:2<211::AID-JCP23>3.0.CO;2-H. PMID 9365524. S2CID 2930599.
• Olofsson B, Pajusola K, Kaipainen A, von Euler G, Joukov V, Saksela O, et al. (March 1996). "Vascular endothelial growth factor B, a novel growth factor for endothelial cells". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 93 (6): 2576–2581. Bibcode:1996PNAS...93.2576O. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.6.2576. PMC 39839. PMID 8637916.
• Olofsson B, Pajusola K, von Euler G, Chilov D, Alitalo K, Eriksson U (August 1996). "Genomic organization of the mouse and human genes for vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGF-B) and characterization of a second splice isoform". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271 (32): 19310–19317. doi:10.1074/jbc.271.32.19310. PMID 8702615.
• Grimmond S, Lagercrantz J, Drinkwater C, Silins G, Townson S, Pollock P, et al. (February 1996). "Cloning and characterization of a novel human gene related to vascular endothelial growth factor". Genome Research. 6 (2): 124–131. doi:10.1101/gr.6.2.124. PMID 8919691.
• Olofsson B, Korpelainen E, Pepper MS, Mandriota SJ, Aase K, Kumar V, et al. (September 1998). "Vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGF-B) binds to VEGF receptor-1 and regulates plasminogen activator activity in endothelial cells". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95 (20): 11709–11714. Bibcode:1998PNAS...9511709O. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.20.11709. PMC 21705. PMID 9751730.
• Makinen T, Olofsson B, Karpanen T, Hellman U, Soker S, Klagsbrun M, et al. (July 1999). "Differential binding of vascular endothelial growth factor B splice and proteolytic isoforms to neuropilin-1". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274 (30): 21217–21222. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.30.21217. PMID 10409677.
• Ikuta T, Ariga H, Matsumoto K (November 2000). "Extracellular matrix tenascin-X in combination with vascular endothelial growth factor B enhances endothelial cell proliferation". Genes to Cells. 5 (11): 913–927. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00376.x. PMID 11122379. S2CID 41366972.
• Qi JH, Ebrahem Q, Moore N, Murphy G, Claesson-Welsh L, Bond M, et al. (April 2003). "A novel function for tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP3): inhibition of angiogenesis by blockage of VEGF binding to VEGF receptor-2". Nature Medicine. 9 (4): 407–415. doi:10.1038/nm846. PMID 12652295. S2CID 12563403.
• Trompezinski S, Berthier-Vergnes O, Denis A, Schmitt D, Viac J (February 2004). "Comparative expression of vascular endothelial growth factor family members, VEGF-B, -C and -D, by normal human keratinocytes and fibroblasts". Experimental Dermatology. 13 (2): 98–105. doi:10.1111/j.0906-6705.2004.00137.x. PMID 15009103. S2CID 13040175.
• Timoshenko AV, Chakraborty C, Wagner GF, Lala PK (April 2006). "COX-2-mediated stimulation of the lymphangiogenic factor VEGF-C in human breast cancer". British Journal of Cancer. 94 (8): 1154–1163. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603067. PMC 2361247. PMID 16570043.
• Iyer S, Scotney PD, Nash AD, Ravi Acharya K (May 2006). "Crystal structure of human vascular endothelial growth factor-B: identification of amino acids important for receptor binding". Journal of Molecular Biology. 359 (1): 76–85. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.03.002. PMID 16616187.
• Yamada E, Yamazaki K, Takano K, Obara T, Sato K (June 2006). "Iodide inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor-A expression in cultured human thyroid follicles: a microarray search for effects of thyrotropin and iodide on angiogenesis factors". Thyroid. 16 (6): 545–554. doi:10.1089/thy.2006.16.545. PMID 16839256.
• de Paulis A, Prevete N, Fiorentino I, Rossi FW, Staibano S, Montuori N, et al. (November 2006). "Expression and functions of the vascular endothelial growth factors and their receptors in human basophils". Journal of Immunology. 177 (10): 7322–7331. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.177.10.7322. PMID 17082651.

External links

• PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Vascular endothelial growth factor B