EPHB4 (Ephrin type-B receptor 4) is a protein kinase, an enzyme that switches other proteins on by adding phosphate groups. The public catalogues list it as a drug target and a biomarker, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Colorectal cancer, Thyroid cancer and Neuroendocrine tumours. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.
Receptor tyrosine kinase which binds promiscuously to transmembrane ephrin-B family ligands residing on adjacent cells, leading to contact-dependent bidirectional signalling into neighboring cells. The signalling pathway downstream of the receptor is referred to as forward signalling while the signalling pathway downstream of the ephrin ligand is referred to as reverse signalling. Together with its cognate ligand/functional ligand EFNB2, it is involved in the regulation of cell adhesion and migration, and plays a central role in heart morphogenesis, angiogenesis and blood vessel remodeling and permeability. EPHB4-mediated forward signalling controls cellular repulsion and segregation from EFNB2-expressing cells. Phosphorylates inactive tyrosine-protein kinase EPHB6 which promotes interaction of EPHB6 with SH2 domains, allowing it to recruit SH2 domain-containing signalling adapters. Location: Cell membrane (UniProt). Locus 7q22.1 (HGNC).
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Query for this target: (TITLE:"EPHB4" OR ABSTRACT:"EPHB4" OR TITLE:"EPH receptor B4" OR ABSTRACT:"EPH receptor B4" OR TITLE:"Ephrin type-B receptor 4" OR ABSTRACT:"Ephrin type-B receptor 4" OR TITLE:"Tyro11" OR ABSTRACT:"Tyro11") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about EPHB4, not a curated reading list.
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