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Requirement of BMP-2-induced phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and Akt serine/threonine kinase in osteoblast differentiation and Smad-dependent BMP-2 gene transcription.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 6 Sept 2002
Ghosh-Choudhury Nandini, Abboud Sherry L, Nishimura Riko, Celeste Anthony, Mahimainathan Lenin, Choudhury Goutam Ghosh
Abstract excerpt
The mechanism by which bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) induces osteoblast differentiation is not precisely known. We investigated the involvement of the phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase/Akt signal transduction pathway in modulation of this process. BMP-2 stimulated PI 3-kinase activity in osteogenic cells. Inhibition of PI 3-kinase activity with the specific inhibitor Ly-294002 prevented BMP-2-induced...
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