티미딘 포스포릴라아제는 혈관신생을 생체 내에서 촉진하고 다양한 내피세포의 체외 성장을 촉진하는 혈관신생 성장인자이다.티미딘 포스포릴라아제는 내피 세포에만 작용하는 표적 세포 특이성이 매우 제한적이어서 ECGF1의 대체 명칭이다. 티미딘 포스포릴라아제는 글리오스타틴으로도 알려져 있다.미토콘드리아 신경가장뇌근증(MNGIE) 환자의 백혈구 내 티미딘 포스포릴라아제 활성은 대조군의 5% 미만으로, TYMP의 기능 상실이 MNGIE를 [8]유발함을 나타냈다.
Ishikawa F, Miyazono K, Hellman U, et al. (1989). "Identification of angiogenic activity and the cloning and expression of platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor". Nature. 338 (6216): 557–62. Bibcode:1989Natur.338..557I. doi:10.1038/338557a0. PMID2467210. S2CID4337444.
Bardosi A, Creutzfeldt W, DiMauro S, et al. (1987). "Myo-, neuro-, gastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE syndrome) due to partial deficiency of cytochrome-c-oxidase. A new mitochondrial multisystem disorder". Acta Neuropathol. 74 (3): 248–58. doi:10.1007/BF00688189. PMID2823522. S2CID20379299.
Usuki K, Gonez LJ, Wernstedt C, et al. (1994). "Structural properties of 3.0 kb and 3.2 kb transcripts encoding platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor/thymidine phosphorylase in A431 cells". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1222 (3): 411–4. doi:10.1016/0167-4889(94)90049-3. PMID8038210.
Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID8125298.
Hirano M, Silvestri G, Blake DM, et al. (1994). "Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE): clinical, biochemical, and genetic features of an autosomal recessive mitochondrial disorder". Neurology. 44 (4): 721–7. doi:10.1212/wnl.44.4.721. PMID8164833. S2CID31980361.
Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID9373149.
Asgari MM, Haggerty JG, McNiff JM, et al. (1999). "Expression and localization of thymidine phosphorylase/platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor in skin and cutaneous tumors". J. Cutan. Pathol. 26 (6): 287–94. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0560.1999.tb01846.x. PMID10472757. S2CID32158847.
Loftus BJ, Kim UJ, Sneddon VP, et al. (1999). "Genome duplications and other features in 12 Mb of DNA sequence from human chromosome 16p and 16q". Genomics. 60 (3): 295–308. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.5927. PMID10493829.
Komatsu T, Yamazaki H, Shimada N, et al. (2001). "Involvement of microsomal cytochrome P450 and cytosolic thymidine phosphorylase in 5-fluorouracil formation from tegafur in human liver". Clin. Cancer Res. 7 (3): 675–81. PMID11297264.
Kojima H, Shijubo N, Abe S (2002). "Thymidine phosphorylase and vascular endothelial growth factor in patients with Stage I lung adenocarcinoma". Cancer. 94 (4): 1083–93. doi:10.1002/cncr.10352. PMID11920479. S2CID35877612.