肿瘤抑素(Tumstatin)是来源于血管基底膜Ⅳ型胶原的肿瘤血管生成抑制因子,一种自然产生的大分子多肽蛋白,特异性结合αvβ3整合素受体选择性抑制肿瘤血管内皮细胞的增殖和迁移,能够抑制原始血管外生长出新的血管,从而抑制肿瘤生长、增值,肿瘤抑素具有很强的生物学效应。
COL4A3 (Collagen, type IV, alpha 3) belongs to the type IV collagen family. Type IV collagen is the major structural component of glomerular basement membranes (GBM), forming a 'chicken-wire' meshwork together with laminins, proteoglycans and entactin/nidogen. Type IV collagen is a multimeric protein composed of 3 alpha subunits. These subunits are encoded by 6 different genes, alpha 1 through alpha 6, each of which can form a triple helix structure with 2 other subunits to form type IV collagen. Tumstatin, a cleavage fragment corresponding to the collagen alpha 3(IV) NC1 domain, possesses both anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor cell activity.
mol wt:162kDa
Other Aliases: Collagen alpha-3(IV) chain; Alpha 3 type IV collagen; Alpha3 type IV collagen; COL4A 3; Collagen IV alpha 3 polypeptide; Collagen type IV alpha 3 (Goodpasture antigen); Collagen type IV alpha 3; Goodpasture antigen; OTTHUMP00000195044; Tumstatin