title: Distinct rat genes with related profiles of expression define a TIE receptor tyrosine kinase family.
abstract: We have isolated rat cDNAs that encode two related receptor-like tyrosine kinases. One of these receptors, TIE-1, is the rat homolog of a recently described human receptor-like kinase termed TIE (Partanen et al., 1992). The related TIE-2 receptor has the same organization of amino acid sequence motifs characteristic of TIE-1: two immunoglobulin-like domains, three epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domains and three fibronectin III-like repeats in the extracellular region and a short kinase insert sequence and C-terminal tail in the intracellular region. The amino acid sequences of the intracellular and extracellular regions of TIE-1 and TIE-2 are 79% and 32% identical respectively. Both tie genes are broadly expressed in embryonic, neonatal and adult tissues, accounted for largely by their coexpression in endothelial cells. The tie-2 gene is also uniquely expressed in several additional embryonic tissues, including the lens epithelium and the heart epicardium.
authors.affiliation: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, New York 10591.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Maisonpierre
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldfarb
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Yancopoulos
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D006321:Heart / Q000196:embryology / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D009928:Organ Specificity; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D051381:Rats; D042810:Receptor, TIE-1; D042787:Receptor, TIE-2; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics*; D042764:Receptors, TIE; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D042810:Receptor, TIE-1; D042787:Receptor, TIE-2; D042764:Receptors, TIE