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Ligands that had a peptide-like N- or C-terminal end were assigned a charge.
The rank order of affinity agrees with the rank order of potency of these ligands in inhibiting forskolin-stimulated cAMP production.
Serial dilutions of PCR products were then prepared which ranged from 10 1to 10 10molecules [ 32 ] . The sequence for the designed Tie receptors and ligands are shown in Supplementary Table 1.
We have previously demonstrated the overexpression and hormone-independent activation of the IGF-IR in primary breast cancers [ 42 ] . Similar overexpression of the IGF-IR and the ligands IGF-I and IGF-II have been seen in human gliomas and astrocytomas [ 43 44 45 46 ] . Because of the important role for the IGF-IR in cell survival, we investigated whether a dominant negative IGF-IR could inhibit growth of the U87 glioma.
These data, together with observations that maximally effective concentrations of BMP-5 and BMP-7 are not additive, suggest that the two ligands share aspects of a common signaling pathway.