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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 4.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Mol Med. 2010 Aug 1;10(6):565–578. doi: 10.2174/1566524011009060565

Table (1).

Comparison of TGF-β isoforms biosynthesis

Isoforms Precursor
ATGC Sequence
Glycosylation
Site
Precursor
Amino Acid
Cysteine
Residues
Gene Location
(chromosome)
Gene Expression Site
TGFβ1 GC Rich 3 390 3 19q13 Endothelial, connective tissue
and hematopoietic cells
TGFβ2 AT Rich 3 442/414 6 1q41 Epithelial and CNS Cells
TGFβ3 Mix AT/GC 4 410 5 14q24 Mesenchymal Cells