Bone morphogenetic proteins

T Katagiri, T Watabe - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
T Katagiri, T Watabe
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2016cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), originally identified as osteoinductive components in
extracts derived from bone, are now known to play important roles in a wide array of
processes during formation and maintenance of various organs including bone, cartilage,
muscle, kidney, and blood vessels. BMPs and the related “growth and differentiation
factors”(GDFs) are members of the transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family, and
transduce their signals through type I and type II serine–threonine kinase receptors and their …
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), originally identified as osteoinductive components in extracts derived from bone, are now known to play important roles in a wide array of processes during formation and maintenance of various organs including bone, cartilage, muscle, kidney, and blood vessels. BMPs and the related “growth and differentiation factors” (GDFs) are members of the transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family, and transduce their signals through type I and type II serine–threonine kinase receptors and their intracellular downstream effectors, including Smad proteins. Furthermore, BMP signals are finely tuned by various agonists and antagonists. Because deregulation of the BMP activity at multiple steps in signal transduction is linked to a wide variety of human diseases, therapeutic use of activators and inhibitors of BMP signaling will provide potential avenues for the treatment of the human disorders that are caused by hypo- and hyperactivation of BMP signals, respectively.
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