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High-affinity NGF binding requires coexpression of the trk proto-oncogene and the low-affinity NGF receptor

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Nerve growth factor (NGF) interacts with two different low-affinity receptors that can be distinguished by affinity crosslinking. Reconstitution experiments by membrane fusion and transient transfection into heterologous cells indicate that high-affinity NGF binding requires coexpression and binding to both the low-affinity NGF receptor and the tyrosine kinase trk gene product. These studies reveal a new growth factor receptor-mediated mechanism of cellular differentiation involving trk and the low-affinity NGF receptor.

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Hempstead, B., Martin-Zanca, D., Kaplan, D. et al. High-affinity NGF binding requires coexpression of the trk proto-oncogene and the low-affinity NGF receptor. Nature 350, 678–683 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/350678a0

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