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Cooperativity of binding epitopes and receptor chains in the BMP/TGFbeta superfamily.
Biological chemistry - 1 Aug 2001
Knaus P, Sebald W
Abstract excerpt
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP) are dimeric factors initiating several distinct signaling cascades by binding to two types of transmembrane serine/threonine kinase receptors (BRI and BRII), and are thus regulating several steps in embryonal development and adult tissue homeostasis. BMP-2 contains two symmetrical pairs of juxtaposed epitopes: the wrist epitope with high affinity to BRI consists of residues from...
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