title: Bone morphogenetic protein receptors and signal transduction.
abstract: Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) exhibit broad spectra of biological activities in various tissues, including bone, cartilage, blood vessels, heart, kidney, neurons, liver and lung. BMPs are members of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) family that bind to type II and type I serine-threonine kinase receptors, and transduce signals through Smad and non-Smad signalling pathways. Recent findings have revealed that BMP signalling is finely tuned by various mechanisms in both positive and negative fashions. Perturbations of BMP signalling pathways are linked to a wide variety of clinical disorders, including vascular diseases, skeletal diseases and cancer. Administration of recombinant BMP ligands and increasing endogenous expression of BMPs provide therapeutic effects on some diseases. The recent development of BMP receptor inhibitors may also prove useful for some clinical diseases induced by hyperactivation of the BMP signalling pathways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. miyazono@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyazono
authors.forename: Yuto
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kamiya
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morikawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D052004:Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008024:Ligands; D011720:Pyrazoles / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D011743:Pyrimidines / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011720:Pyrazoles; D011743:Pyrimidines; C516138:dorsomorphin; D052004:Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors