Header Logo

EGF Family of Proteins

"EGF Family of Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
A family of proteins that are related to epidermal growth factor. They share in common a consensus sequence consisting of six spatially conserved CYSTEINE residues which form three intramolecular bonds. This consensus sequence is commonly referred to EGF motif and is considered essential for binding of the proteins to ERB RECEPTORS.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "EGF Family of Proteins" by people in this website by year, and whether "EGF Family of Proteins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
_
Top Journals expand description