Ligand‐stimulated VEGFR2 signaling is regulated by co‐ordinated trafficking and proteolysis

AF Bruns, SP Herbert, AF Odell, HM Jopling… - Traffic, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF‐A)‐induced signaling through VEGF receptor 2
(VEGFR2) regulates both physiological and pathological angiogenesis in mammals …

Computational model of vascular endothelial growth factor spatial distribution in muscle and pro-angiogenic cell therapy

F Mac Gabhann, JW Ji, AS Popel - PLoS computational biology, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Members of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family of proteins are critical
regulators of angiogenesis. VEGF concentration gradients are important for activation and …

Extracellular regulation of VEGF: isoforms, proteolysis, and vascular patterning

P Vempati, AS Popel, F Mac Gabhann - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF) is critical to
neovascularization in numerous tissues under physiological and pathological conditions …

Expression of VEGF receptors on endothelial cells in mouse skeletal muscle

PI Imoukhuede, AS Popel - 2012 - journals.plos.org
VEGFR surface localization plays a critical role in converting extracellular VEGF signaling
towards angiogenic outcomes, and the quantitative characterization of these parameters is …

VEGF-A isoforms program differential VEGFR2 signal transduction, trafficking and proteolysis

GW Fearnley, GA Smith, I Abdul-Zani… - Biology …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) binding to the receptor tyrosine kinase
VEGFR2 triggers multiple signal transduction pathways, which regulate endothelial cell …

[HTML][HTML] Monte Carlo simulations of VEGF binding to cell surface receptors in vitro

F Mac Gabhann, MT Yang, AS Popel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2005 - Elsevier
The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family binds multiple endothelial cell surface
receptors. Our goal is to build comprehensive models of these interactions for the purpose of …

Predicting the effects of anti-angiogenic agents targeting specific VEGF isoforms

SD Finley, AS Popel - The AAPS journal, 2012 - Springer
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key mediator of angiogenesis, whose effect
on cancer growth and development is well characterized. Alternative splicing of VEGF leads …

Model of competitive binding of vascular endothelial growth factor and placental growth factor to VEGF receptors on endothelial cells

F Mac Gabhann, AS Popel - American Journal of …, 2004 - journals.physiology.org
Placental growth factor (PlGF) competes with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) for
binding to VEGF receptor (VEGFR)-1 but does not bind VEGFR2. Experiments show that …

Effect of tumor microenvironment on tumor VEGF during anti-VEGF treatment: systems biology predictions

SD Finley, AS Popel - JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is known to be a potent promoter of
angiogenesis under both physiological and pathological conditions. Given its role in …

Soluble VEGFR1 signaling guides vascular patterns into dense branching morphologies

D Lakatos, E Somfai, E Méhes, A Czirók - Journal of theoretical biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Vascular patterning is a key process during development and disease. The diffusive decoy
receptor sVEGFR1 (sFlt1) is a known regulator of endothelial cell behavior, yet the …