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Mutation of a cleavage site adjacent to the mature domain leads to increase in secreted mature BMP-2 with reduced activity.
Growth factors (Chur, Switzerland) - 1 Aug 2012
Zhou Aileen J, Zhu Zhining, Clokie Cameron M L, Peel Sean A F
Abstract excerpt
Proteolytic cleavage of precursor bone morphogenetic protein (proBMP) is an important step in generating the active mature BMP. ProBMP-2 contains two proprotein convertase (PC) recognition sites (S1 and S2) and is postulated to be cleaved by PCs at those sites. Cell lines expressing proBMP-2, with a silenced S1 site (mS1) that inhibited PC cleavage, secreted the 20-kDa form BMP-2, while cells expressing wild type...
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