Term Information

Accession
GO:0038004
Name
epidermal growth factor receptor ligand maturation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
EGFR ligand maturation, epidermal growth factor receptor ligand processing, peptide bond cleavage involved in epidermal growth factor receptor ligand maturation, EGFR ligand maturation by peptide bond cleavage, EGFR ligand processing, peptide bond cleavage involved in EGFR ligand maturation
Alternate IDs
GO:0038005
Definition
Any process leading to the attainment of the full functional capacity of a ligand for an epidermal growth factor receptor. The ligand is functional when it can bind to and activate an epidermal growth factor receptor. Source: GOC:signaling, PMID:11672525, PMID:11672524
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0038004 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
Comments, changes to terms, or requests for new ontology terms can be made at GO issue tracker on GitHub.

Filter results

Loading...
pending...
Parents of epidermal growth factor receptor ligand maturation (GO:0038004)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
epidermal growth factor receptor ligand maturation [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  membrane protein ectodomain proteolysis (GO:0006509)
epidermal growth factor receptor ligand maturation [is_a relation] is_a  peptide hormone processing (GO:0016486)

This term has no children.

None.