Endocan in Cancers: A Lesson from a Circulating Dermatan Sulfate Proteoglycan

Figure 1

Structure of Endocan protein core. Amino acid sequence (a) and domain organization (b) of Endocan protein core are shown according to the following color code: signal peptide (in green), cysteine-rich region (dark blue) including the EGF-like domain (light blue), phenylalanine-rich region (pink), and C-terminal region (white) including DS attachment residue S¹³⁷ (red and bold/underlined).

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