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Human fibroblast growth factor-18 stimulates fibroblast cell proliferation and is mapped to chromosome 14p11

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The fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) play crucial roles in controlling embryonic development, cell growth, morphogenesis, and tissue repair in animals. Furthermore, FGFs may have a role in angiogenesis and may be involved in tumor invasion and metastasis. Here, we present the cloning and sequence of human FGF-18, a novel member of the FGF family. Sequence comparison indicates that FGF-18 is conserved with the other FGFs and most homologous to FGF-8 among the FGF family members. We showed that human FGF-18 was expressed primarily in the heart, skeletal muscle, and pancreas, and at lower levels in the other tissues. FGF-18 was also expressed at low levels in certain cancer cell lines. FGF-18 contains a typical signal peptide and was secreted when it was transfected into mammalian cells. Recombinant FGF-18 protein stimulated proliferation in the fibroblast cell line NIH3T3 in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that FGF-18 is a functional growth factor. Finally, the FGF-18 gene was evolutionarily conserved, and localized to human chromosome 14p11.

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We thank B Sutton for DNA sequencing; Dr H Heng for assisting in FISH; J Speakman for the MTS cell proliferation assay; H Lu for partial amino acid sequence determination; E Han for ELISA data analysis; D Olivares for technical illustration; and Drs L Souza, R Bosselman and W Boyle for their support.

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Hu, MT., Wang, Yp. & Qiu, W. Human fibroblast growth factor-18 stimulates fibroblast cell proliferation and is mapped to chromosome 14p11. Oncogene 18, 2635–2642 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1202616

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