Targeting TGF-β signaling for the treatment of fibrosis

AH Györfi, AE Matei, JHW Distler - Matrix biology, 2018 - Elsevier
TGF-β is a master regulator of both physiological (wound healing) and pathological … as
major downstream mediators of sGC - cGMP pathway in the regulation of vascular tone and …

The discovery and early days of TGF-β: a historical perspective

HL Moses, AB Roberts… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
… receptors and signaling mediators. This review summarizes the discovery of TGF-β, the early
… supported the role of TGF-β as an endogenous negative regulator of proliferation of several …

Crosstalk between TGF-β signaling and the microRNA machinery

H Butz, K Rácz, L Hunyady, A Patócs - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2012 - cell.com
… by the TGF-β receptors. Endoglin phosphorylation seems to play a regulatory role for
ALK1-… GSK-3β is apparently one of the major mediators of environment-dependent TGF-β-induced …

Hierarchical model of gene regulation by transforming growth factor β

YC Yang, E Piek, J Zavadil, D Liang… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
… is the essential mediator of TGF-β signaling and directly activates genes encoding regulators
of … for immediate-early target genes of TGF-β but absent in intermediate target genes. In …

TGF-β and cancer

B Bierie, HL Moses - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
… aberrations in this central regulatory pathway give precedence for investigation of TGF-…
immune and inflammatory mediators that provide additional cytokines and growth factors upon …

Negative regulation of TGF-β receptor/Smad signal transduction

S Itoh, P ten Dijke - Current opinion in cell biology, 2007 - Elsevier
… Besides Smurfs and phosphatases, Smad7 was shown to promote the recruitment of
mediators of Smad-independent pathways to the TGF- β type I receptor. Which binding partner(s) …

Differential regulation of TGF-β signaling through Smad2, Smad3 and Smad4

A Kretschmer, K Moepert, S Dames, M Sternberger… - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
… By gene expression profiling, we identified TGF-β-dependent … contribute to the regulation
of TGF-β responses to varying … mediator of TGF-β-induced cell cycle arrest in HaCaT cells. …

TGF-β/Smad signaling in renal fibrosis

XM Meng, PMK Tang, J Li, HY Lan - Frontiers in physiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… that TGF-β is the key mediator in CKD associated with progressive renal fibrosis. It is well
documented that TGF-β1 … Moreover, the regulatory mechanism of Smad7 on TGF-β signaling …

The role of TGF-β and epithelial-to mesenchymal transition in diabetic nephropathy

CE Hills, PE Squires - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
… Indeed, the up-regulation of TGF-β appears prevalent in all … expression for both TGF-β1 and
the type II TGF-β receptor are … production of various downstream mediators of TGF-β. These …

Modulation of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling by endogenous sphingolipid mediators

M Sato, M Markiewicz, M Yamanaka… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
… with fibrotic diseases and TGF-β is a primary inducer of collagen, this study was undertaken
to examine the possible role of sphingolipids in TGF-β regulation of collagen production. …