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Yuko Katakawa1, Masayuki Funaba2, Masaru Murakami1
1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Azabu University School of Veterinary Medicine, Sagamihara, 252-5201, Japan.
Abstract:
Members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family function through Smad-dependent and Smad-independent pathways. The Smad-dependent pathway is stimulated through the phosphorylation of receptor-regulated Smad (R-Smad) and inhibited through the dephosphorylation of R-Smad or the gene induction of inhibitory Smad (I-Smad). Little information is available on the regulation of R-Smad gene expression. BMP4 potentiated the up-regulation of Smad8/9 expression in C2C12, H9c2, 3T3-L1, HepG2, B16, and primary fibroblasts. BMP4-induced Smad8/9 expression was cycloheximide-insensitive and LDN-193189-sensitive, suggesting a direct event mediated through BMP type I receptors. BMP4 transcriptionally stimulated the Smad8/9 gene, and BMP-responsive elements (BREs) spanning nt -121 to nt -44 are involved in the up-regulation of Smad8/9 expression in response to BMP4. Phosphorylated Smad1/5/8/9 specifically bound to the BREs of Smad8/9 gene. The present study reveals that Smad8/9 is a unique R-Smad regulated through the BMP pathway at the mRNA level. J. Cell. Biochem. 117: 1788-1796, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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