Description
Product Characteristics:
c-Met, a member of the tyrosine kinase superfamily, is the receptor for hepatocyte growth factor, also known as scatter factor (HGF/SF). The mature c-Met protein is a disulfide-linked heterodimer with Mr=190 kDa composed of a heavily glycosylated alpha subunit that is completely extracellular in localization, and a beta subunit comprising an extracellular ligand binding domain, a single transmembrane domain, and a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase domain. Cells expressing c-Met include epithelial cells, endothelial cells, blood cells of various types, and glomerular mesenchymal cells.
Synonyms: MetTyr1349, AUTS9, c met, cmet, D249, Hepatocyte growth factor receptor, Hepatocyte growth factor receptor Precursor, HGF, HGF receptor, HGF SF receptor, HGF/SF receptor, HGFR, MET, Met proto oncogene tyrosine kinase, Met proto-oncogene hepatocyte growth factor receptor, Met proto-oncogene, Met protooncogene, MET_HUMAN, Oncogene MET, Par4, Proto-oncogene c-Met, RCCP2, Renal cell carcinoma papillary 2 gene, Scatter factor receptor, SF receptor, Tyrosine-protein kinase Met.
Target Information: The proto-oncogene MET product is the hepatocyte growth factor receptor and encodes tyrosine-kinase activity. The primary single chain precursor protein is post-translationally cleaved to produce the alpha and beta subunits, which are disulfide linked to form the mature receptor. Various mutations in the MET gene are associated with papillary renal carcinoma. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]