Endothelial cells are also likely to participate in activation, both by production of cellular fibronectin and via conversion of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta from the latent to active ...

They found that ECM1 maintains TGF-β in its latent form and have since made the protein a focal point of their fibrosis research. Link and the team led by Sai Wang experimentally identified the ...

Structure of a latent cytokine The latent cytokine delivery system (Prothyx ® ) is a fusion protein between the latency associated peptide of TGF? that confers a shell structure by dimerisation and a ...