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Activin A receptor, type IIA, also known as ACVR2A, is a human gene.[1] ACVR2A is an activin type 2 receptor. This gene encodes activin A type II receptor. Activins are dimeric growth and differentiation factors which belong to the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of structurally related signaling proteins. Activins signal through a heteromeric complex of receptor serine kinases which include at least two type I (I and IB) and two type II (II and IIB) receptors. These receptors are all transmembrane proteins, composed of a ligand-binding extracellular domain with cysteine-rich region, a transmembrane domain, and a cytoplasmic domain with predicted serine/threonine specificity. Type I receptors are essential for signaling; and type II receptors are required for binding ligands and for expression of type I receptors. Type I and II receptors form a stable complex after ligand binding, resulting in phosphorylation of type I receptors by type II receptors. Type II receptors are considered to be constitutively active kinases.[1]
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- Matzuk MM, Bradley A (1992). "Cloning of the human activin receptor cDNA reveals high evolutionary conservation.". Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1130 (1): 105–8. PMID 1311955.
- Donaldson CJ, Mathews LS, Vale WW (1992). "Molecular cloning and binding properties of the human type II activin receptor.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 184 (1): 310–6. PMID 1314589.
- Mathews LS, Vale WW (1991). "Expression cloning of an activin receptor, a predicted transmembrane serine kinase.". Cell 65 (6): 973–82. PMID 1646080.
- Xu J, McKeehan K, Matsuzaki K, McKeehan WL (1995). "Inhibin antagonizes inhibition of liver cell growth by activin by a dominant-negative mechanism.". J. Biol. Chem. 270 (11): 6308–13. PMID 7890768.
- Attisano L, Cárcamo J, Ventura F, et al. (1993). "Identification of human activin and TGF beta type I receptors that form heteromeric kinase complexes with type II receptors.". Cell 75 (4): 671–80. PMID 8242742.
- Peng C, Huang TH, Jeung EB, et al. (1994). "Expression of the type II activin receptor gene in the human placenta.". Endocrinology 133 (6): 3046–9. PMID 8243335.
- De Winter JP, De Vries CJ, Van Achterberg TA, et al. (1996). "Truncated activin type II receptors inhibit bioactivity by the formation of heteromeric complexes with activin type I. receptors.". Exp. Cell Res. 224 (2): 323–34. PMID 8612709.
- Attisano L, Wrana JL, Montalvo E, Massagué J (1996). "Activation of signalling by the activin receptor complex.". Mol. Cell. Biol. 16 (3): 1066–73. PMID 8622651.
- Liu QY, Niranjan B, Gomes P, et al. (1996). "Inhibitory effects of activin on the growth and morpholgenesis of primary and transformed mammary epithelial cells.". Cancer Res. 56 (5): 1155–63. PMID 8640777.
- Nishitoh H, Ichijo H, Kimura M, et al. (1996). "Identification of type I and type II serine/threonine kinase receptors for growth/differentiation factor-5.". J. Biol. Chem. 271 (35): 21345–52. PMID 8702914.
- Lebrun JJ, Vale WW (1997). "Activin and inhibin have antagonistic effects on ligand-dependent heteromerization of the type I and type II activin receptors and human erythroid differentiation.". Mol. Cell. Biol. 17 (3): 1682–91. PMID 9032295.
- Macías-Silva M, Hoodless PA, Tang SJ, et al. (1998). "Specific activation of Smad1 signaling pathways by the BMP7 type I receptor, ALK2.". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (40): 25628–36. PMID 9748228.
- Barbara NP, Wrana JL, Letarte M (1999). "Endoglin is an accessory protein that interacts with the signaling receptor complex of multiple members of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily.". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (2): 584–94. PMID 9872992.
- Lux A, Attisano L, Marchuk DA (1999). "Assignment of transforming growth factor beta1 and beta3 and a third new ligand to the type I receptor ALK-1.". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (15): 9984–92. PMID 10187774.
- D'Abronzo FH, Swearingen B, Klibanski A, Alexander JM (1999). "Mutational analysis of activin/transforming growth factor-beta type I and type II receptor kinases in human pituitary tumors.". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 84 (5): 1716–21. PMID 10323406.
- Ebisawa T, Tada K, Kitajima I, et al. (2000). "Characterization of bone morphogenetic protein-6 signaling pathways in osteoblast differentiation.". J. Cell. Sci. 112 ( Pt 20): 3519–27. PMID 10504300.
- van Schaik RH, Wierikx CD, Timmerman MA, et al. (2000). "Variations in activin receptor, inhibin/activin subunit and follistatin mRNAs in human prostate tumour tissues.". Br. J. Cancer 82 (1): 112–7. doi:10.1054/bjoc.1999.0886. PMID 10638976.
- Shoji H, Tsuchida K, Kishi H, et al. (2000). "Identification and characterization of a PDZ protein that interacts with activin type II receptors.". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (8): 5485–92. PMID 10681527.
- Bondestam J, Horelli-Kuitunen N, Hildén K, et al. (2000). "Assignment of ACVR2 and ACVR2B the human activin receptor type II and IIB genes to chromosome bands 2q22.2-->q23.3 and 3p22 and the human follistatin gene (FST) to chromosome 5q11.2 by FISH.". Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 87 (3-4): 219–20. PMID 10702675.
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TGF beta family ( TGF-β1, TGF-β2, TGF-β3)
Bone morphogenetic proteins ( BMP2, BMP3, BMP4, BMP5, BMP6, BMP7, BMP8a, BMP8b, BMP10 , BMP15)
Growth differentiation factors ( GDF1, GDF2, GDF3, GDF5, GDF6, GDF7, Myostatin/GDF8, GDF9, GDF10, GDF11, GDF15)
Other ( Activin A and B/ Inhibin A and B, Anti-müllerian hormone, Nodal)
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