EGF

Inside the cell · In RAS and MAPK

3D structure of EGF bound to the outer part of its receptor (PDB 1IVO)
Image: Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff, EBI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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The natural signal that switches on the EGF receptor, a laboratory protein rather than a medicine.

Epidermal growth factor, the namesake ligand of EGFR. EGF and TGF-α are both ligands for that one receptor rather than two separate systems. A research protein, with no clinical use for this purpose.

Risks. No one is given it for growth, so nothing is known about its safety for that.

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