CCN Proteins in Health and Disease An Overview of the Fifth International Workshop on the CCN Family of Genes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Perbal, Annick (Editor), Takigawa, Masaharu (Editor), Perbal, Bernard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical genetics.; Molecular biology.; Proteins.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Gene Function.; Molecular Medicine.; Protein Science.; Cell Biology.

The CCN family of genes currently comprises six secreted proteins (designated CCN16 i.e., Cyr61/CCN1; ctgf/CCN2; Nov/CCN3; WISP1/CCN4; WISP2/CCN5, and WISP3/CCN6) showing a strikingly conserved primary structure, with four modules sharing partial identity with IGF binding proteins, Von Willebrand pr...