TGF-β signaling from receptors to Smads

A Hata, YG Chen - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) and related growth factors are secreted pleiotropic
factors that play critical roles in embryogenesis and adult tissue homeostasis by regulating …

WANTED–Dead or alive: Myotubularins, a large disease-associated protein family

MA Raess, S Friant, BS Cowling, J Laporte - Advances in biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Myotubularins define a large family of proteins conserved through evolution. Several
members are mutated in different neuromuscular diseases including centronuclear …

Novel loci affecting iron homeostasis and their effects in individuals at risk for hemochromatosis

B Benyamin, T Esko, JS Ried, A Radhakrishnan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Variation in body iron is associated with or causes diseases, including anaemia and iron
overload. Here, we analyse genetic association data on biochemical markers of iron status …

Socioeconomic status and DNA methylation from birth through mid-childhood: a prospective study in Project Viva

ZM Laubach, W Perng, A Cardenas… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: We investigated associations of prenatal socioeconomic status (SES) with DNA
methylation at birth, and to explore persistence of associations into early (∼3 years) and …

Bone morphogenetic protein signaling: the pathway and its regulation

T Akiyama, LA Raftery, KA Wharton - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In the mid-1960s, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) were first identified in the extracts of
bone to have the remarkable ability to induce heterotopic bone. When the Drosophila gene …

BMP growth factor signaling in a biomechanical context

J Kopf, P Paarmann, C Hiepen, D Horbelt, P Knaus - Biofactors, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are members of the transforming growth
factor‐β superfamily of secreted polypeptide growth factors and are important regulators in a …

PTPs emerge as PIPs: protein tyrosine phosphatases with lipid-phosphatase activities in human disease

R Pulido, AW Stoker… - Human molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) constitute a family of key homeostatic regulators, with
wide implications on physiology and disease. Recent findings have unveiled that the …

Specific control of BMP signaling and mesenchymal differentiation by cytoplasmic phosphatase PPM1H

T Shen, C Sun, Z Zhang, N Xu, X Duan, XH Feng, X Lin - Cell research, 2014 - nature.com
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) belong to the TGF-β superfamily of structurally related
signaling proteins that regulate a wide array of cellular functions. The key step in BMP signal …

C-terminal domain (CTD) small phosphatase-like 2 modulates the canonical bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling and mesenchymal differentiation via Smad …

Y Zhao, M Xiao, B Sun, Z Zhang, T Shen… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling pathway regulates a wide range of
cellular responses in metazoans. A key step in the canonical BMP signaling is the …

[HTML][HTML] A Drosophila-centric view of protein tyrosine phosphatases

T Hatzihristidis, N Desai, AP Hutchins, TC Meng… - FEBS letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Most of our knowledge on protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) is derived from human
pathologies and mouse knockout models. These models largely correlate well with human …